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Of all the great things about television, the greatest is that it’s on every single day. TV history is being made, day in and day out, in ways big and small. In an effort to better appreciate this history, we’re taking a look back, every day, at one particular TV milestone.
IMPORTANT DATE IN TV HISTORY: July 14, 1985
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT: Yesterday’s Emmy nominations were a bummer for fans of a lot of great TV shows and performers who didn’t get nominated. One of those performers was Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose excellent performance on Amazon’s Fleabag, a show she created, writes, and stars in, based on her own one-woman show. Fleabag is a phenomenal little show that is probably more under-the-radar than it should be given the talent level Waller-Bridge brings to the role.
After appearing in films like Albert Nobbs with Glenn Close and The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep (she’ll next be in the Han Solo Star Wars spinoff movie), Waller-Bridge, she wrote the one-woman play that served as inspiration for Fleabag, which ended ip premiering its first season on Amazon in July of 2016. She’s an incredibly promising talent, with a gift for telling a story.
You can see this gift for storytelling show up in any of her many talk-show appearances.
She honestly makes a good case for the horse-sized duck!
She also proves that she’s as adept talking about anal-sex jokes as she is making anal sex jokes. (Honestly, if there was an Emmy for Funniest Anal Sex Joke, perhaps Fleabag could have gotten the respect it deserves.)
So happy birthday, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Maybe if we all agree to watch Fleabag this weekend, we can atone for our television academy screwing things up so badly.
