In Hacks, Jean Smart plays aging stand-up legend Deborah Vance, performing nightly on the Las Vegas strip in a rut so deep, she could line it with spangled caftans from her own home shopping line. In the HBO show’s first season, she trades incredulous takes on the state of comedy with a young writer named Ava (Hannah Einbinder). The Gen Z in this equation wants to evolve her reluctant new boss’s jokes beyond pantyhose punchlines, even though they guarantee laughs from the aging Floridians who fill the theater each night.
Smart, as Vance, huffs in disbelief: “So you’re telling me that if a lot of people
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