99 Words About … The hilarious growing pains of ABC’s ‘Happy Endings’
A funny thing happened after the debut of "Happy Endings" (9:30 p.m. Wednesdays, KTNV-TV, Channel 13).
Comedy.
After a staggeringly uncomfortable what-happens-to-their-friends-when-girl-leaves-boy-at-the-altar pilot, the series settled into something resembling an actual sitcom.
Think a postmodern "Friends," if Chandler were black and Joey were gay. And Jewish. And chubby.
"Happy Endings" ricochets between ordinary and genius as though it were being repeatedly hit in the head with coconuts.
But that just makes the best bits — YouTube its evisceration of hipsterdom — seem stronger.
Awkward, unpredictable, with a unique way of viewing the world, it’s the two-headed-baby-giraffe-on-roller-skates of comedy.