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Variety’s 2024 Comedy Impact Report: Ayo Edebiri, Julio Torres and Ramy Youssef Among Honorees
Variety’s 2024 Comedy Impact Report features comics who made a lasting imprint on comedy in the past year.
But within her flurry of recent projects — the feature film “Babes,” Season 2 of “Survival of the Thickest” and a new Netflix special — the hat this multihyphenate is most excited about wearing is “size 18-20, light-skinned, goofy-ass bitch getting shit greenlit.” Buteau hopes the future of comedy allows “people to shine and be in a good place,” alongside “less self-deprecating and more inclusive, honest, growth.” Medrano attributes the success of the A24 show — an inclusive, R-rated comedy that explores good, evil, sex work, addiction, found family and redemption through the inhabitants of heaven and hell — in part to its “fluid, cartoony, expressive” art and self-aware humor that doesn’t belittle as it fluxes between whimsy, sarcasm and wit. She’s still on the same lot in Burbank but has long since matriculated to the executive ranks, developing hit comedies for multiple platforms, including ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” NBC’s “Night Court,” Max’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls” and Apple TV+’s “Shrinking” and “Ted Lasso.” More recently, she set up a pair of Mindy Kaling projects, “Murray Hill” (Hulu) and “Running Point” (Netflix).
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