By LillyKatPTR Senior Staff Writer
She’s ba-aaaack.
As if there were any doubt.
You cannot keep Tracey Ullman under wraps for long - even if she is now a United States citizen.
It is an undeniable fact: Ullman is flipping hysterical.
Anyone who doesn’t know this has been living under a rock for the last three decades. Her impersonations and skits are Just. Plain. Brilliant.
It takes a lot for me to laugh so hard at the television screen I cry. Sure, I can yell, stare, curse, talk to, scream at and generally ignore the television screen pretty much on cue. But you have to be pretty gosh darn funny to get me to laugh ‘til I cry.
Ullman can do just that.
Her new original series, Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union, debuted last night on Showtime. All I can say is: when’s the next episode?
The Emmy® Award-winner brings her signature brand of spot-on impersonation and comic timing to her new sketch comedy series, which takes a satirical look at a day in the life of America. The show features a wide smattering of original characters and impersonations in a collection laugh-'til-it-hurts skits that range from sardonic parody and social satire to Bollywood musicals.
And about the Bollywood musical thing ... Oh. My. God. The whole singing pharmacist number ... can you imagine if we really had pharmacists sing you the side effects of the drugs you’re about to take? Trust me, having been to the pharmacist one too many times this week, I would kill for a musical number. Or maybe just Ullman as my pharmacist. Hard to say.
Everyone is fair game in the show - especially our country's celebrity-obsessed, 24-hour news culture. We will get to see Ullman's impersantions of celebrities such as Cameron Diaz, Renée Zellweger, Dina Lohan and David Beckham as well as politicians and pundits like Nancy Pelosi and Arianna Huffington. Ullman also has her own slew of original characters that are set to reflect a cross-section of American society, from an Indian pharmacist (already mentioned) to a homeless woman without health insurance to a soldier on temporary leave from Iraq.
Ullman's state of things looks pretty darn funny.
New episodes of Tracey Ullman's State of the Union air Sundays at 10 p.m. on Showtime. Even if you don't get Showtime, you can catch up on all the goods over at the show's official Web site.
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