The awkwardness of it all, observed with
great nuance by Peele, makes for a perfect
comedy of manners, until cringe becomes something altogether more horrific — even if Chris» paranoid friend Rod (Milton «LilRey» Howery) continues to bring the comic
relief.
To the
relief of
comedy enthusiasts everywhere, in A Futile and Stupid Gesture (now available on Netflix),
comedy legend and unsung hero, Doug Kenney, the man who co-founded the ground - breakingly irreverent National Lampoon magazine with his best friend, Henry Beard, «the oldest man who was ever a teenager», is imagined with
great admiration and comedic inheritance by one of this era's funniest, most visionary voices, David Wain.