So, you are tasked with choosing one actress, actor, or comedian who has never starred in hir own scripted television series (this person maybe has been a supporting player on a scripted series, but never the star) and creating an amazing series for them that you'd totally want to watch yourself. Go!
I'm picking Tig Notaro, who is one of my favorite comedians, and here's my series pitch: Tig is a comic book artist, who has had some success, and the series centers around her attempts to navigate the boys' club of comics and the accompanying misogynist bullshit in the industry.
Her character is known primarily for a female superhero she created and draws—a dynamic character who is not overly sexy; whose costume is a full-body suit with a cape and knee-high boots—and one of the ways she processes the garbage in her work environment is by imagining herself as her own superhero.
Except, in her fantasies, she's still dry and sardonic and low-key, and the unitard is kinda too big on her and the cape is real droopy. So, it's this great and funny juxtaposition of who she really is (which is a superhero! in real life! but a very laconic and slouchy one!) with the image of a fantasy superhero.
And naturally all of the dudebros who don't appreciate her are the supervillians in her fantasy asides. And she always finds a way to defeat them in her comic fantasy, which is symbolic of the real-life work solution. And she definitely has a sidekick, who is the only ally she's got at work.
I would watch the fuck outta that show!
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