Janicza Bravo

1 sketch, 8 claims, and 10 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) (guest)

Drawn to excruciating, stressful, surreal comedy and likes being pushed to a limit. Cannot stand the unearned-success loser-white-guy genre. Loves Lynch and Twin Peaks.

Stances

  • Her path is filled with rejection, unlike the characters in those films
  • Lemon is a decision in every element and gives no easy answers

Humor: Blunt, profane and deadpan; says outrageous things like race play being hot for her.

In their words

  • “I like feeling stressed out.” (0:35:34)
  • “My path is filled with a great deal of rejection, actually.” (0:33:23)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–8 of 8 claims.

  1. lineage (origin): Lemon → Lemon. The Sundance lab deadline, which came from a lie, produced the first draft in five days.
    “because of this deadline, this kind of self-imposed deadline, that was the result of a lie, we ended up having this script.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:12:57 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Eat (short) → Michael Sarah. Michael saw Bravo's short Eat at South by Southwest and wrote Brett about wanting to work with her.
    “he saw my short eat and had in that time sort of written Brett about really liking that piece”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:14:14 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Lemon → Michael Sarah. Bravo and Gelman wrote the part for him before he liked her short, a serendipity.
    “we were writing this part for him and then he actually liked the thing that I made.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:14:33 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): New York lotto commercial (Brett as Jewish minstrel) → Lemon. A scene in Lemon is an homage to the commercial where the couple met.
    “the scene where he and me and me is sort of in homage to that place that we met”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:18:23 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Lemon → Loser white guy comedies (genre, no specific titles). Lemon is a commentary on the genre of the flailing 30-40 year old white guy for whom everything works out.
    “it is a 1000% of commentary on this kind of genre of 30 something 40 something year old white guy who is flailing through life, but that everything works out for.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:30:30 · Janicza Bravo (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Lemon → Loser white guy comedies (genre, no specific titles). Lemon follows love, family and career like those films but ends in plateau and failure.
    “lemon goes through love life, family, and career in the same way, but it's all plateau, and it's all failure”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:31:02 · Janicza Bravo (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Joy McMillan → Lemon. Bravo says she asked editor Joy McMillan to keep lengthening the tug-of-war scene, from about 15 seconds up to 90 and back to about 45.
    “my note to our editor was to make it longer to our editor, Joy McMillan.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:35:04 · Janicza Bravo (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. contrast (contrast): Janicza Bravo → David Lynch. Bravo says Lynch works in nightmares while she works in anxiety, an internal demon rather than a demon behind the garbage can.
    “I think he works in nightmares and I feel I work in anxiety.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:39:41 · Janicza Bravo (0.75 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–10 of 10 fun items.

  1. fun, about Lemon: Bravo told Sundance people she had a feature when she did not; she and Gelman wrote the first draft in five days at South by Southwest.
    “They asked if I had a feature, I lied and said yes.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:11:10 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Lemon: Michael read the script and said yes the same day, which fast-tracked the film.
    “And Michael read it that day and said yes to doing it that day”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:13:31 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman: They met on a lotto commercial where Brett played a Jewish minstrel and she was the stylist.
    “We met on this commercial 9 years ago on New York lotto commercial where Brett was playing a Jewish minstrel.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:18:12 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman: Their first date was his comedy show, which she slept through.
    “I think our date consisted of us going to a comedy show where he performed that I slept through.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:19:00 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Lemon: On the first day of pre-production an actor dropped out, funding fell apart in three to five days, and Bravo fell into a depression for the rest of the year.
    “and I fell into a very deep depression that lasted for, I think the rest of that year.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:23:20 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Gregor Goboom (short): Her follow-up short was pitched to Michael's new company with Sarah Silverman, Tim and Eric and Reggie Watts.
    “Michael was a part of this company called Josh that was launching, that is Michael Sarah, Sarah Silverman, Tim and Eric and Reggie Watts.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:23:32 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Lemon: Gelman, as producer, acted as a bodyguard on set.
    “it's sort of like I have my own bodyguard here.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:27:27 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Lemon: Bravo wondered whether an audience would be as charmed if the flailing guy were a person of color.
    “I think they'd be disgusted.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:31:00 · Janicza Bravo (0.65 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Juneteenth (Atlanta episode): Bravo on being sent the script: it was so her thing.
    “Like, I love race, race play is like hot for me.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:34:20 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Lemon: The tug-of-war scene: Bravo kept asking the editor to make it longer, from 15 seconds to 90 and back to about 45.
    “And at one point we had it going for, I think like 90 seconds and that was too long.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:35:13 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)