'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal?

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'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal?
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From Adult Swim to ‘dank memes’, modern comedy is confronting the illogicality of life in 2019

There is an episode in the first season of Broad City – the US sitcom about two twentysomething, weed-loving best friends – that involves an epic journey to pick up some post. In order to track down a parcel, co-protagonist Abbi must travel on an eerily empty subway before boarding a ferry populated solely by identical twins.

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