Garfunkel and Oates are Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, a pair of comedians, actresses and songwriters who bear a glancing physical likeness to Art Garfunkel (Ms. Lindhome is tall and blond) and John Oates (Ms. Micucci is short and dark haired).
Naming their act — funny songs, stand-up, web videos and now a television show, “Garfunkel and Oates,” beginning Thursday on IFC — after a pair of famous supporting players signals Ms. Lindhome and Ms. Micucci’s intentions. They practice the comedy of female semi-empowerment, in which confidence (tending toward narcissism) and a still somewhat startling sexual frankness combine with old-fashioned insecurity and self-abasement, all of them generating laughs. Read more...