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Ronna & Beverly are Critics’ Choice for Christmas
Ronna & Beverly are named Critic’s Choice by Time Out. “The best worst chat show hosts ever are back! Celebrity guests join boisterous interviewers Ronna & Beverly in this cult chat show.”
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The Best Comedy for Christmas 2010
Boston Jewish matriarchs (AKA thirtysomething actors Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo) return after a hit run on the Edinburgh Fringe, with a show in which prurience and piss-take is thinly disguised as relationship counselling.
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Daily Mirror – 5 Stars
This is an excellent hybrid kind of chat show, in which Ronna and Beverly, coming out of the Jewish mother tradition, sell us their book and talk to invited guests.
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Guardian UK Review
Way back when, Rob Brydon’s feckless chauffeur character Keith Barret had a relationship-counselling show on the Fringe. In his dealings with his guests, he hit on a winning formula: piss-take disguised as solicitous concern. Ronna and Beverly (alias US comics Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo) are up to something similar. They are Boston Jewish matriarchs, here to promote their book for divorcees You’ll Do a Little Better Next Time, and to grill on-stage guests about matters of the heart. If the guests don’t instantly want to marry and make babies, Beverly – two pairs of glasses competing for space on her face – wants to know why.
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Ronna & Beverly in Variety
You can’t keep a good pair of Jewish divorcees down. “Ronna and Beverly,” a project developed as a comedy series for Showtime earlier this year by multihyphenates Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo, will get a spin on Showtime at 9:05 p.m. ET/12:05 a.m. PT (technically Tuesday on the West Coast feed) today, and again Dec. 29 at the same time on Showtime 2.
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Wall Street Journal: “Ronna and Beverly”: How the Showtime Sitcom Went from Cancellation to Sensation
Showtime’s “Ronna and Beverly” might be the most buzzed about television show … never actually to become a television show. The sitcom focuses on two fifty-something yentas living in Boston and promoting their self-help guide, “You’ll Do a Little Better Next Time…
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Loaded Gun: Oy! Boston-set ‘Ronna and Beverly’ hit Showtime
If Patsy and Eddie from “AbFab” were Jewish and had thick Boston accents, they would be the politically-incorrect comedic duo from “Ronna and Beverly.” Sketch queens Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo team up with “Weeds” creator…
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