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re: What?....
Posted by: rikepsych 11:50 pm EDT 10/06/21
In reply to: re: What?.... - JT 02:44 pm EDT 10/06/21

Jane Lynch will be great. Her character in Mrs Maisel is based in Fanny Brice. She will nail it.
I love this casting choice.
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re: What?....
Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 04:30 pm EDT 10/07/21
In reply to: re: What?.... - rikepsych 11:50 pm EDT 10/06/21

Not so. Her character in Mrs. Maisel owes more to Phyllis Diller. (The fact that Mrs. Maisel is set decades after Brice was active should also have been a clue.)

And no, "Phyllis Ada Driver" wasn't Jewish, either.
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re: What?....
Posted by: comedywest 11:51 am EDT 10/10/21
In reply to: re: What?.... - MockingbirdGirl 04:30 pm EDT 10/07/21

In an interview, Rachel Brosnahan said she based it on Jean Carroll.

But I'm not sure I see that: Carroll used to tell her jokes quickly, figuring if one didn't land there was another coming right behind it.
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re: What?....
Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 03:17 pm EDT 10/11/21
In reply to: re: What?.... - comedywest 11:51 am EDT 10/10/21

I think that Midge (Brosnahan's character) does owe a lot to Jean Carroll, but Sophie Lennon—Jane Lynch's character—is more Diller.
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