After their win for best TV series comedy, the cast and creatives of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" filed into the Golden Globes press room, where show creator Amy Sherman-Palladino talked about how "Mrs. Maisel" dovetails with the #MeToo movement and the quest for gender equality.
"As things got weirder and creepier in the sexual predator realm, the whole idea of a truly confident female taking charge of her life, when the male in her life walked out and left, took on a little more meaning," Sherman-Palladino said of her show, a dramedy set in the 1950s about one woman's journey from an Upper West Side housewife to raunchy stand-up comedian in New York.
Tony Shalhoub, who plays Abe Weissman, added that while the show is timely, its comic tone also offers some needed levity.
"It's a really fertile time, the timing couldn't be better," he said. "What's going on in our country right now, in our industry right now, [this story] is a respite from that and breathes a sigh of relief."
When the group was asked about "the Jewish-American aspect of the show," Sherman-Palladino stepped forward again:
"My father was a comic," she said. "He'd work the Borscht belt, the Catskills, the clubs downtown. I was sort of raised with [it].
"And when you grow up with it," she continued, "you feel like Jews invented comedy. Back in the 1950s, that voice _ not just a Jewish voice, but a New York voice _ it just felt like the most fun thing we could possibly do. Plus: matzo ball soup!"
