At the end of the day, it's nice to put your
feet up, relax and forget all the annoyances of the day.
Or, you could laugh at them.
"The Downer Channel," which premieres at 8:30
p.m. Tuesday on NBC, (WDIV-TV,
Channel 4) promises to offer that opportunity with a fast-paced combination
of sketches and man-on-the-street interviews.
Then again, real life is full of broken promises.
"The idea is to take things that are annoyances
or bummers or downers in everyday people's lives and make fun of them and
sort of exonerate them," explains Mary Lynn Rajskub, one of the show's
stars.
The Trenton native has had regular roles on "The
Larry Sanders Show" and "Veronica's Closet."
"I have to say I definitely feel cool being from
the Midwest," she says. "It makes me feel like I got a good background."
After she left Michigan, "I went to art school
for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started
making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy."
"The
Downer Channel," which also stars Wanda Sykes ("The
Chris Rock Show"), Jeff B. Davis ("Whose
Line Is It Anyway?") and Lance Krall, boasts a powerhouse production
team including Steve Martin, Joan Stein, Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner.
"I hope it's as fun for people to watch as it
was to do," says Rajskub. "There was this one piece in particular called
'My Celebrity Wedding' ...I just got to be a drunk bride for hours ...the
comedy part of the piece is that I'm talking about everything like it's
so grand and beautiful but everything's just super trashy and crappy."
And with that goes a content warning! She admits
that every skit isn't for everyone.
"And that's what I think is so cool about this
show," she says. "I don't think there's a sketch that's over two minutes,
so some of the things you might be like, 'Huh?' and you're not really laughing,
and then you kind of forget about it because it moves on to the next thing."
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