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PORTLANDIA: Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein present Actually Funny Sketch Comedy

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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
i was interested, then i saw that peta thing with a pseudo naked david cross.

no thanks......
 
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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
This is pretty funny. I'm only like 2 minutes in, but still... I'll give it a chance. Portland is where young people to go retire, haha. Funny.

edit: meh... not bad but I don't know if I'd tune in regularly for this.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Funnier than expected imo. I have a friend who used to live in Portland who absolutely loathes the place who is going to eat this up.

Some good gags; really my only general complaint is that they go for a big punchy ending or sight gags when they don't need to. Just keep it subtleish and it's funny.
 
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Dartastic

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As a Portlander, I'm going to eat this shit UP. Didn't know it was already on Hulu. Watching it NOW.

Edit - Tucker Max protest. Hahahah!
 
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Deleted member 8095

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Portland GAF check in! I'm not a huge fan of sketch comedy but I'll watch these when I get home.
 
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ArtG

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Pretty funny. I don't know how long it can really last to be honest--I mean, you can only make so many hippie/environmental jokes, right?
 
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soco

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Parallax said:
i was interested, then i saw that peta thing with a pseudo naked david cross.

no thanks......
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the stuff i've seen of it, it's pretty much poking fun of these things.
 
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woahitsreeo

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Living 45-ish minutes outside of Portland
(Probably near Aliki Farms)
for nearly 1 1/2 years now and go into the city quite often. I was waiting for a thread about this, lots of pokes and gags at the local to eat right up.

If I'm not mistaken it's a mini-series with only 6-episodes correct? Or have there been more episodes requested?
 
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Deleted member 8095

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I'm a Portlander and the only part I found funny was the adult hide and seek. The rest of it was really not funny at all. This could have been much better.
 
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big ander

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Just watched. It wasn't laugh-out-loud hilarious, but it was amusingly quirky. Adult hide-and-seek and Steve Buscemi were great.
The Experiment said:
It was boring, inane crap.

Maybe I need to have lived in or around Portland to get some of the jokes.
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Never been to the state of Oregon and I still found it funny.
 
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JCX

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Besides the song, my favorite part was the extended restaurant scene. It took an easy, dull joke and made it work because they refused to kill it early.
 
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Shurs

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I watched it.

It was okay.

I have no doubt that this resonates within their circle of friends, but it felt too "inside" to draw a broad audience, if that makes sense.

I've been smitten with Carrie since I was in high school, though, so it was nice to see her in the spotlight again.
 
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Pctx

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Portland peep here... For 30 yrs now. Show was easily one the funniest shows on tv since arrested development. Loved the inside jokes and it had inspired me to start a hide and seek league with an after party.
 
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Christoff Yurievich

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ArtG said:
Pretty funny. I don't know how long it can really last to be honest--I mean, you can only make so many hippie/environmental jokes, right?
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I work in Portland and there are a lot of different ways to joke about that.

Forgot this was on, I'll have to check it out later this week.
 
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ZephyrFate

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Portland GAFer living in Eugene checking in!

This show totally nails Portland. You have to live here to really appreciate all the nuances in the jokes, and I laughed my ass off.
 
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Commodore_Perry

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It's really hit-or-miss. Some of it is fucking hilarious. Some of it is painfully bad.

My favorites: Hipster cyclist, asian tourists in a coffee shop

The worst: Mayor of Portland, Cacao, Lesbian bookstore

I feel like it has a lot of potential though. The Lesbian bookstore sketch had sooo much potential, but it felt really forced.

For a bit of context, my Dad's ex-gf is a 50-something employee of the Portland Bureau of Recycling that shops at all the organic food stores and regularly shops at thrift stores and lesbian bookstores.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
i had a hard time with the last ep. had to stop watching after the "GET OUT OF THERE" sketch tbh. a lot of the sketches have really good premises but the improv just doesn't work. almost makes me wish they woulda just done a way less over-the-top show and totally ditched any of the avant-gardeish stuff.
 
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Deleted member 8095

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Show just keeps getting worse. I'm definitely done with it. The sketches go on way too long, way past being funny.
 
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Deleted member 8095

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ZephyrFate said:
get out of my state!
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If the office I worked at in Vancouver was still there I'd move back to Washington in a heart beat. Fuck Oregon and fuck their income tax even harder.
 
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ZephyrFate

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WinoMcCougarstein said:
If the office I worked at in Vancouver was still there I'd move back to Washington in a heart beat. Fuck Oregon and fuck their income tax even harder.
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God, I love our income tax. And our lack of a sales tax.
 
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Mike Works

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I've only seen the first two episodes, but I've actually found it pretty damn funny. Especially the 'safe word' sketch. Thumbs up so far.
 
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KtSlime

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As a native Portlander, I can vouch that this show is 100% accurate in how it stereotypes us. It's eerily spot on.

It's pretty funny too.

Commodore_Perry: You didn't like Sam Adams(Portland's Mayor) being a gofer?
 
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