‘Broad City’: “Kirk Steele”
Paul Downs is getting his due with his excellent HBO series, Hacks, but long before he and his co-creators Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky gave us Deborah Vance, Downs was keeping busy on Broad City. While he delivered plenty of scene-stealing moments as condescending Soulstice boss Trey, Downs gave us some of his best absurd comedy with the Season 2 episode “Kirk Steele,” in which his character’s past as an adult film star resurfaces. Be sure to watch until the very end for outtakes from “Kirk’s” career, including an especially memorable — and intimate — pool scene between him and a poor inflatable whale.