Samantha Irby Brings Meaty to FX With Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Inside Amy Schumer‘s Jessi Klein

 

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If you are a woman on the Internet, it’s likely that you’ve read the popular (and hilarious) blog, B*tches Gotta Eat by Chicago-based writer, Samantha Irby. She wrote an equally popular collection of essays based on the blog called Meaty back in 2013. Now, that book is coming to television as a new comedy.

FX is currently developing the show Meaty, which is based on the book and the blog, as a half-hour comedy. Irby herself will be Executive Producing along with Inside Amy Schumer head writer Jessi Klein, and Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson. For those who aren’t familiar, Deadline Hollywood describes the show this way: “Meaty follows Irby through failed relationships, taco feasts, her struggles with Crohn’s disease, poverty, blackness and body image.”

As a longtime fan of Irby’s blog, I’m so excited that she’s gotten this opportunity. I’m also glad that she’ll be writing alongside Klein and Jacobson, and that it’s got an all-female team creating it! Even cooler is the fact that we’ll have another awesome comedy fronted by a black female protagonist. Shows like this and Issa Rae’s Insecure make me really excited about television right now.

Have you read B*tches Gotta Eat or Meaty? What are your hopes for the show? Let’s chat about it in the comments!

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