Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love âCommunityâ
This cult favorite comedy had a simple premise, but its mission was more complex: to deconstruct the modern sitcom.
âCommunityâ blended warmheartedness with postmodern cultural literacy. With, from left, Joel McHale, Yvette Nicole Brown, Donald Glover and Danny Pudi.Credit.Justin Lubin/NBC
By Calum Marsh
July 23, 2021, 3:43 p.m. ET
In the early days of the pandemic, when everyone was bored at home, I took an extremely comprehensive online personality quiz designed to determine your similarity to more than 1,600 fictional characters from TV, literature and film. My closest counterpart, with a 96 percent match, was Jeff Winger, the charismatic lead character played by Joel McHale on NBCâs cult sitcom âCommunity.â