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An HBO Dramedy series starring Jean Smart as Deborah Vance, a doyenne of the Las Vegas comedy scene with a crowd-pleasing but well-worn schtick. Hannah Einbinder plays Ava Daniels, a 25-year-old bisexual comedy writer, who after getting cancelled online, is hired to freshen up Deborah's act. The show also features Carl Clemons-Hopkins as Deborah's COO Marcus, Kaitlin Olson as Deborah's daughter D.J., Paul W. Downs as Deborah and Ava's agent Jimmy, Megan Statler as Jimmy's assistant Kayla, and Poppy Liu as Deborah's personal blackjack dealer.

The show has been running since 2019 and has gone on to much acclaim, including winning several Emmys and Golden Globes. In 2025, it was renewed for its fifth and final season.

This show provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer:
  • Jimmy is horrified when Kayla seems to be flirting with him.
  • Marty has to dodge the clumsy advances of Las Vegas' mayor.
• Accidental Proposal: Ava finds a ring hidden in her girlfriend's stuff and thinks she's about to propose. She blurts out that she found it and happily accepts, only for Ruby to tell her that it's just a prop from her show that she took home.
• Actually Pretty Funny:
  • Deborah doesn't want to hire Ava, who also doesn't want the job, but both agree to meet to humor their mutual agent. After Ava reveals she doesn't know any of Deborah's material, is asked to leave, she insults Deborah, who clearly find her roast pretty funny, trading barbs, and as Ava is driving away, Deborah chases after her to stop her, and tell her she's hired.
  • Deborah cackles with joy at even the most vicious jokes thrown at her in her roast. In fact, DJ killing the room while airing out her grievances in joke form brings the mother and daughter closer.
• Age-Gap Romance:
  • Marty has had increasingly younger girlfriends throughout his life and starts the series with a 30-year-old, but he's grown tired of not being with someone he actually connects with and prefers the company of Deborah whenever he gets the chance.
  • Deborah has a one-night stand with a man 20 years her junior, which she finds extremely bizarre but enjoyable.
• Alcoholic Parent: Deborah reveals to Ava in Season 3 that her dad was usually drinking most evenings, except during The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, which distracted him from this.
• Amicable Exes: Ava and Ruby are friendly with each other on meeting again after the two broke up.
• Amoral Talent Agent:
  • Talent manager Janet Stone is a vicious Arc Villain in Season 2. Discussed between Ava and Jimmy.
  Jimmy: Listen, I'm trying to get in touch with Janet Stone, okay? She represents Daisy and Jesse. I'm gonna try and reason with her.
  Ava: Uh, isn't that the manager who beat her assistant with a stapler?
  Jimmy: No, three-hole punch. Much heavier.
  Ava: Oh, wow.
  Jimmy: Yeah, she gives good, decent reps like me a bad name. Anyway, I gotta go make a sexual harassment situation go away.
  • Jimmy quits his firm and the firm of Kayla's father, Latitude, because they develop a "bro-y vibe" and decide to turn away from Deborah. Kayla's father even tells Jimmy that his father would be ashamed of him even though Jimmy's father was one of the few people who believed in Deborah when nobody else did. Then Kayla's father tries to buy Kayla off with a house and with a jet-ski.
  • Played with by Jimmy himself when he runs his own firm. He tries to hand himself with dignity, but he ends up dealing with a Bad Influencer known as "Dance Mom", who pretends to be a Courteous Canadian but is in fact a Crass Canuck and an addict who Jimmy ends up forcing cocaine up her nose so she can go on Deborah's show.
• Analogy Backfire: During a rough stretch on tour, Ava suggests that Deborah follow the motto "trust the process," so as not to let every setback get her down. It sounds good until the bartender informs them that the motto comes from the Philadelphia 76ers, who choke every year and suck.
• Anti-Villain: In the first season, Deborah is primarily motivated to counter Marty's attempts to push her out of his casino. However, Marty is a pretty nice guy, all told, and he genuinely likes Deborah. It's Nothing Personal.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: A variation; Deborah discovers that one of her stalkers is at her show, but her set that night is bad enough that he just quietly returns to his car afterward instead of accosting her, to her great offense.
• Ashes to Crashes: Discussed in Season 2. Weed throws out Ava's father's ashes in "a McDonalds, Wendy's, or a Burger King." Even though Deborah is currently suing her, Deborah insists on going back to each of them and dumpster dives until they find them.
• As Himself: Kristen Bell appears as herself in Season 4 after Deborah tracks her down to get her on her show for an interview. As a result, Jimmy Kimmel chews her out about this and stops it, saying that she only comes on his show.
• Big Fancy House: Deborah's, obviously.
  Ava: We need a wealth tax.
• Blackmail:
  • Deborah tries blackmailing Marty to keep her spot in the casino, which works... for a while.
  • Ava blackmails Deborah to make her head writer on The Tonight Show in the Season 3 finale, using the fact of Deborah's having sex with the company's CEO right before getting the spot as her leverage.
• Blood-Spattered Innocents: Subverted : During her son-in-law's first MMA fight at the Palmetto, Deborah gets a splatter of blood in the face... and finds it exhilarating.
• Boomerang Bigot: A lot of Deborah's jokes make fun of women, and she gets into trouble about this at the lesbian cruise. One of her hecklers is the captain's wife, and when Deborah first asks about "him", the wife informs her the captain is a woman, to which Deborah makes a joke about women and parallel parking, sparking boos, and then doubles down, saying "it's not a lesbian joke, it's a woman joke, everybody hates women" at which point the entire crowd boos her.
• Bolivian Army Ending: To Season 4. Deborah quits her Tragic Dream of having a late night show because the network wanted her to fire Ava. The show seems set for a Bittersweet Ending, until Bob Lipka tells her they have a non-compete clause and if she even so much as sings in the shower for 18 months, they'll sue her.
• "Both Sides Have a Point" Remark: Deborah and Ava disagree about feminism and the purpose of comedy. The show validates both points of view.
• Call-Back: Early in season two, a woman confronts Deborah on the faulty jean leggings she sells. At the end of the season, Deborah states on her home shopping channel that she's ensured the quality of all her products... except the jean leggings.
• The Cameo:
  • Kristen Bell appears in Season 4. So does Rosie O'Donnell, appearing at a party where she talks to Deborah and presents her with an award.
  • Seth Rogen and Kaia Gerber appear as celebrity guests onone episode of Deborah's late night show.
• Camp Gay: Season Three reveals Deborah has quite the following among effeminate gay men, and one even sells unauthorized merchandise that features her online.
• Chekhov's Party: Deborah's Christmas party is mentioned in the opening scene of "Par for the Course," Season 3, Episode 6. The final scene sees Deborah's sister Kathy get invited to the party, which then happens in the next episode, "The Deborah Vance Christmas Spectacular."
• Cliffhanger:
  • Season 1 ends with Ava and Deborah going out on tour together, but with Ava horrified to remember that she drunkenly sold some of Deborah's dirty secrets.
  • Season 4 ends with Deborah quitting the late night show, and Bob Lipka telling her about her non-compete clause.
• Daddy's Girl:
  • Ava has a cordial relationship with her father, compared to her mother who is just constantly talking about how worried she is about Ava and everything.
  • Kayla has a very loving relationship with her father, which is why Jimmy needs to be on eggshells whenever he's around her, since he's his boss.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Ava begins to see a vulnerable side of Deborah as an Odd Friendship blossoms between them.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Deborah and Ava's argument in the Season 3 premiere sounds like nothing but a couple of exes disputing the end of their relationship.
• Driven to Suicide: Offscreen, a guy who Ava hooks up with in Las Vegas kills himself on the next morning as he turns out to be a fugitive facing prison over his embezzlement from elderly people.
• Dumb Blonde: Zigzagged with D.J., who appears to be a ditzy gal who rests on her mother's fame and money. When she wants to impulsively marry her boyfriend, Ava says she can do so much in her life as "you can go back to school, get a GED." A baffled D.J. asks what she's talking about, as she went to Cornell. On the other hand, D.J. is from wealth earned by Deborah, so it isn't clear if she earned her way there or not.
• Ends with a Smile:
  • Season 2 in general ends with one, as the final shot is of Deborah smiling from the television as she tells her viewers (including Ava) that "all you need is yourself."
  • The first episode of Season 4 ends with Ava and Deborah putting on huge smiles for the New York Times after Deborah tells Ava that she will never talk to her again after the end of the late night show.
  • "D'Christening" in Season 4 ends with Deborah smiling as she introduces Ahmed to her talk show audience.
• Erotic Dream: Ava has one about Deborah. Due to her being bisexual, this isn't that unusual, though Ava still feels uncomfortable because Deborah is her boss and straight.
• Everyone Has Standards: Ava meets a beautiful older woman at a country club who invites her up into her room. While there, she learns two things; the other woman wants to pee on her and she's a Republican. Ava's fine with the first one but the second one is a dealbreaker.
• Fake Relationship: Kayla lied that she and Jimmy were married so they could get a luxury honeymoon suite in Vegas.
• False Friend: Kayla has been friends with a Disney star since childhood, but the more they interact with each other, the more it becomes apparent that the star has actually just been bullying and exploiting Kayla.
• A Family Affair: Deborah's husband left her for her sister.
• Fanservice Extra:
  • On the lesbian cruise, many of the lesbians are attractive young women with lots lounging around in their bikinis (as does Ava, making out with a couple).
  • In Season 3 Ava goes backstage at an event, seeing a ton of topless or at least scantily clad show girls.
• Fire-Forged Friends: The essential premise of the series is that these two female comedians from completely different backgrounds and stages in their careers initially hate each other but manage to connect and form an unlikely partnership, though not without its ups and downs.
• Foreshadowing: When Ava does drugs with George, they talk about acting on impulse and “just wanting to jump.” The next morning, Ava discovers that George jumped from their hotel window to his death.
• Gay Conservative:
  • At the beginning of the show, Ava has freshly been let go from her writing job for a tweet joking about a known Armored Closet Gay conservative politician sending his son to gay conversion therapy.
  • In "Par for the Course," Ava nearly has sex with a woman whom she meets at the golf course. On learning she's a Republican who also profits from fracking, Ava (who's very progressive) is disgusted and immediately calls it off, saying she'd never have sex with a conservative, questioning just how anyone gay can be one.
• Gender Nonconforming Equals Gay: Parodied. Ava says that she would not send her panties to Rob, a fellow writer, because she knows he's gay. He tells her not to assume that. She says that there's a picture of him marrying his husband on his desk. Rob tells her that "she doesn't know who that man is, and she shouldn't assume."
• Hates Their Parent: Deborah's daughter D.J. doesn't have that great a relationship with her, resenting how neglected she'd been growing up as Deborah so often was busy with her comedy career. She's quite happy at getting an opportunity to vent through insult jokes at Deborah's comedy roast, though it's never outright hatred. In fact they get to a better place somewhat after this.
• Hired on the Spot: Deborah hires Ava after the two trade insults after their initial terrible job interview. We also learn that Marcus was hired after he showed up at Deborah's gig with a self-made fan t-shirt, and then giving her a pitch on better merchandising.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: In season 2, Jimmy's new assistant calls an Audi mechanic because he recognizes a tone heard over the phone as a sign that his car needs a repair.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Kayla mentions that she spends a lot of time traveling, then immediately says she has to take off Friday to "go to the dentist again." When Jimmy suggests she move it to Saturday, she says she can't because she already bought the ticket.
• Insult Comic: Aside from her regular stage show, Deborah has a talent for roasting, which she practises on the people around her, and sometimes popping on a Vegas tour bus to make jokes at the tour group.
• I Resemble That Remark!: When he quits the agency, Jimmy just barely restrains himself from hitting someone with his laptop and then screams at them that he doesn't have anger issues.
• It's All About Me:
  • Ava's mother is remarkably self-centered without realizing it.
  • Ava confronts Deborah at the end of Season 3 about the fact that Deborah will always act in her own self-interest even at the expense of people close to her.
• Lesbian Jock: The lesbian cruise is mentioned as having multiple Olympic athletes onboard. Ava also jokingly says her bisexuality is partly caused by the American National Women's Soccer team. Deborah seems to tell a lot of these jokes in general based around this stereotype.
• LOL, 69: When Deborah offers a sexist comic a huge check to stop performing comedy, she pointedly makes it "one point sixty-nine million" to mock his dopey sense of humor.
• May–December Romance: Marty has a habit of dating women decades younger than himself. When he claims that his current girlfriend is an "old soul", Deborah even quips how lucky he is to keep finding "old souls in the bodies of twenty-six-year-old women".
• Meaningful Funeral: Deborah surprises Ava by showing up at her father's funeral and basically emcees the ceremony. At the reception afterwards the two women agree to keep working with each other.
• Milholland Relationship Moment: Deborah apologizes to Susan, an old colleague she once sabotaged at a comedy competition, and who subsequently retired from comedy. Susan assures her that she didn't quit because of losing one meaningless competition; she just saw the sacrifices Deborah was making to pursue comedy and didn't want to do the same. She also told everyone Deborah won because she blew one of the judges. (This makes Deborah crack up.)
• Most Writers Are Writers: This show about a comedy writer was, shockingly, created by comedy writers Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky.
• Nepotism:
  • Kayla is nice but The Ditz who has no idea how to be anyone's assistant. Jimmy however is stuck with her even when she violated the HR rules as she can't be fired due to her father being the boss, whom she's very close with.
  • Jimmy himself is just as much a nepotism baby as Kayla (their fathers were both partners in the company, though his is deceased) but he takes his job much more seriously, especially because he's very self-conscious about being known for his father.
• Nervous Wreck: Ava's mother, Nina. Any conversation Ava tries to have with her will end with Nina freaking out over the tiniest thing. In her first appearance, Nina learns that Ava has moved to Vegas and starts freaking about how to rearrange the house for Ava when she has to move back in with them.
• No Bisexuals:
  • Deborah at first doesn't fully get just how people can be bisexual, when discussing this with Ava (who's bi). Ava also meets two lesbians who maintain everyone's either gay or straight, though she just agrees to not spoil them flirting with her.
  • Later in Season 3 she's come around to understanding this from being friends with Ava, and gets annoyed when some comedians who she knows make jokes about bisexuals being fakers who put this on for attention (especially women or girls).
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • While there are many inspirations for Deborah, most critics took her as a thinly veiled Joan Rivers. Like Joan, Deborah is a glamorous blonde showbiz veteran with a similar style of humor, she has a home shopping empire and she came close to being the first female star of late night until her career was destroyed by scandal.
  • In Season 3, Ava is now working as a writer for British comedian Lewis Benton and his comedy news show On the Contrary, a clear stand-in for John Oliver and Last Week Tonight.
  • In Season 4, Ethan Summers, a popular and handsome movie star who has been accused of domestic violence, harassment of women and inappropriate messages with underage girls, is a thinly veiled dig at popular stars like Johnny Depp, James Franco and Jared Leto who have been accused of similar behavior.
• Non-Indicative Name: "Dance Mom," the viral influencer who becomes a regular presence on Vance's talk show, does not actually have kids.
• Nothing Personal: Marty increasingly downgrades Deborah's presence in his casino because her market appeal is waning, which she takes personally. Marty repeatedly insists that he's personally a big fan of hers (and obviously romantically interested) but also has business responsibilities that take precedence over his personal feelings.
• Oh, Crap!: The first season ends with Ava and Deborah reconciled...until Jimmy reminds Ava that she spilled a bunch of Deborah's secrets to some British TV writers.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Invoked. A large part of Deborah's late career is built on the incident where she allegedly burned down her ex-husband's house, and she ran with it for comedy material and even ad deals. The fire was actually caused by an appliance malfunction and she wasn't even near the house.
• Polyamory:
  • Ava meets a lesbian couple on the cruise who open up their relationship while aboard the ship. They make out with her, though anything more is aborted by Deborah being kicked off.
  • In Season 4, Ava starts seeing a man and woman at the same time (a couple). However, they soon end things because it seems like Ava only wants to have sex with them, while both want more than just that from her.
• Recovered Addict: Deborah's daughter D.J. is a drug addict who's gotten into trouble many times as a result. However by Season 3 she's been sober a year and goes to NA meetings regularly. Her relationship with her mother improves once she realizes that Deborah is addicted to performing.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ava and Deborah are a study in opposites. Deborah is older, successful, fashionable, fairly old-fashioned, and highly organized. Ava is young, broke, casually attired, progressive, and disorganized.
• Relationship Revolving Door: Ava has gotten back in a relationship with Ruby as Season 3 starts, after they split up earlier. They then split up again as Ruby doesn't like Ava going back to working for Deborah and neglecting them in her view.
• Rich Bitch: Conversed. Ava is excited to write for a show created by two respected British writers, until she finds out it's going to play this trope straight, and they expect her to tell horror stories about what a monster Deborah is.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Kayla sure counts thanks to having a rich father. She talks about $200,000 not being that much money.
• Rousing Speech: When her son-in-law seems to be losing his UFC fight, Deborah goes ringside and gives him a pep talk about how he's going to go in there and prove everyone wrong. He returns to the fight and beats his opponent so hard that blood gets splattered across Deborah's face, to her delight.
• Running Gag:
  • When Ava and Deborah first meet, Deborah says that Ava has abnormally large hands, which Ava finds to be a bizarre and inaccurate insult. In the season one finale, Deborah shows Ava a picture of her that emphasizes her large hands and says she's "extraterrestrial." Ava comes clean about realizing that she does have large hands and can easily palm a basketball. In season two, Deborah looks at a caricature of Ava and says the artist was merciful about her hands. Ava confesses that she hid them in her pockets.
  • People letting Ava sleep in, stating she looked tired while she slept. Ava is non-plussed that she looks even tired in her sleep, and thinks it should be impossible.
• The Sequel Goes to Hollywood: Played with. Deborah had once upon a time been a late night host, and Ava was a writer for a TV show. However, Deborah refused to go back to TV throughout Seasons 1 and 2, and insisted on live performance, mostly in Vegas, where she lived, except for occasional shilling jobs on QVC. Season 3 mixed things up by having Deborah in the running to host a late-night show while Ava was writing on another show, meaning that both were in Hollywood but neither in their dream position. Following on from the Season 3 finale, Season 4 was more of a straight example, as Deborah moved to Los Angeles and Ava blackmailed her into making her head writer, setting up a Season 4 where they both work together in Hollywood and on television for the first time. This arc concluded at the end of Season 4, after Deborah's talk show got canceled and she and Ava moved to Singapore.
• Serious Business:
  • Deborah relies on playing blackjack so much that she hires a specific croupier to make home visits. In season two, she has the croupier visit her on the road so she can decompress.
  • Deborah simply gives away her luxury automobiles after replacing them with a new model, but when Ava leaves behind 44 cents belonging to Deborah, she demands that Ava go back and retrieve it. Only Deborah gets to decide when she is generous with her wealth.
• Sex with the Ex: Subverted. When Ava's ex Ruby makes a move on her, Ava opts to call it a night since she has an important meeting the next day.
• Shower of Love: In "Better Late" Ava is shown having sex with Ruby while they're showering together.
• The Show Must Go On: when Deborah is filming her special at Palmetto, a man in the audience has a heart attack, and has to be carted out, which screeshes to show to a halt. Once outside the doors, the paramedics pronounce him dead on the spot, but Jimmy, seeing how disruptive the vent was, goes back in and tells everyone the guy is OK and will just be taken to the hospital, causing the audience to burst with applause, and Deborah can continue her set.
• Skewed Priorities: After her father dies, Ava returns home to find her mother severely stressed out after being left on hold on the phone for hours. Ava rushes in to help, and then is told that the purpose of the call is to cancel her father's baseball channels.
• Silver Fox: Marty Ghilain, the handsome owner of the casino where Deborah performs, played by Christopher McDonald. He's pursued by many women and has relationships with much younger women, and it's implied many are with him more for his charm than his wealth.
• Spoiled Sweet:
  • D.J. completely depends on her mother financially and throws the occasional tantrum, but she is friendly to Ava and supportive of her boyfriend/husband. Her criticisms of Deborah's parenting are also valid, and she is trying to be more independent.
  • Also Kayla, who only got her job because her father is Jimmy's boss but is genuinely nice and well-meaning and even sets Ava up with a potentially career-making opportunity all on her own.
• Stimulant Speedtalk: At the end of the coke binge with a guy she met at the casino, Ava leaves both a rambling angry voicemail to Deborah, quitting her job, and a rambling single run-on sentence email to her agent, pitching a show with an absurd premise.
• Stylistic Suck:
  • Deborah can still command a stage and kills with her audience but what we see of her Vegas show is very hackneyed, with out-of-date punchlines and dated delivery.
  • Drew, the sexist stand-up that Deborah humiliates, uses so many hack sexist jokes when introducing her that she immediately knows he has no future in comedy.
  • We are told often that Deborah's new confessional material is bombing in its early run, but if anything they underplayed how bad it is. The bits we see are still using Deborah's old-school style and clashes horribly with the material, which itself is depressing, with weak punchlines.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Jimmy's assistant, Kayla, is a total moron who poured pure honey into his coffee because "you said you wanted it natural and honey comes from bears." She can't keep track of his calls, can't remember anyone he works with, and barely knows how to handle the phones. Why does Jimmy not fire her? Because she's the daughter of his boss and so he has to suck up.
  Kayla: You almost got stuck with some Harvard nerd always bragging about his Fulbright!
  Jimmy: Wow, that would have been so annoying...
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: After an entire first season of warming up to each other, Ava and Deborah's relationship hits a speed bump in episodes 9 and 10 when Ava interviews for another job, and Deborah finds out about it just before Deborah is due to do a daring new show.
• Three-Way Sex: In "Clickable Face" Ava is shown having sex with the couple who she's now seeing.
• Token Minority Couple:
  • Marcus is a gay black man, with his boyfriend Wilson being dark-skinned (played by a Latino). They're the only main men of color on the show.
  • Ava meets a lesbian couple on the cruise later — one of them is of East Asian ancestry and the other's olive-skinned, with an unknown ethnicity. Except for Ava's Latina ex-girlfriend, they're the only queer women of color we see prior to Season 4, when Emily (who's queer and played by Iranian-American Medalion Rahimi) gets introduced.
• Too Much Information: When Deborah asks if Ava is a lesbian, Ava gives a detailed breakdown of her romantic and sexual proclivities. Deborah is shocked and only wanted to insult Ava's fashion. Ava tends to do this trope a lot in general.
• Top Billing Argument: During Season 4, Jimmy and Kayla have trouble deciding on whether to name their new venture "Schaefer & Lu Saque" or "Lu Saque & Schaefer", leading to their assistant Randi answering the phone using both names. After suffering numerous stressful and humiliating incidents in trying to do his job, Jimmy decides on putting Kayla's name first, believing her to be the better half of the partnership.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Deborah loves Diet Coke from the fountain. She even has a soda fountain built into her kitchen and is practiced in replacing the gas canisters herself. It becomes apparent that Ava has grown close to Deborah by the latter part of Season One when she orders a Diet Coke "from the fountain."
• Trophy Wife: Marty has had several.
• Twofer Token Minority: The cast is mostly white, straight and otherwise mainstream, but with certain exceptions.
  • Ava is a Jewish, atheist bisexual.
  • Deborah's assistant Marcus is a black gay man. His boyfriend is also a man of color, played by a Latino actor.
  • Ava's ex-girlfriend Ruby is Latina.
  • Both the lesbians who Ava (nearly) hooks up with on the cruise are women of color, one with East Asian ancestry, the other olive-skinned with an unknown ethnicity.
  • In Season 4, Ava gets into a relationship with a married couple. The woman in the couple, Emily, is also queer, with olive skin and curly dark brown hair. She's played by Medalion Rahimi, who's of Iranian heritage.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension:
  • The show puts a low boil on Deborah and Marty's relationship. In the first season, Deborah hates Marty because he's pushing her out of his casino, but he's frequently given opportunities to show that his hands are effectively tied because of his business responsibilities, and he's personally a huge admirer of hers. Over the course of the series, Deborah and Marty's social interactions always have a romantic charge to them, but Marty is always in relationships with younger women whom he admits don't completely fulfill him.
  • The show seems to be teasing this regarding Ava and Deborah as well. Ava is certainly attracted to Deborah, if her dreams are anything to go by. And while Deborah insists she's straight, it could potentially prove to be a case of Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?, particularly since Deborah seems somewhat uneducated on the subject of sexuality, to the point of not even knowing what bisexuality is.
• Wham Episode: The Season 4 finale. Ava leaks the network pressure about Ethan, which then gets back to the network, who figure out it was her almost immediately.
• Wham Line: In "Interview", the British writers tell Ava they can't wait to hear more of her stories. She replies that there's so much about Vegas people don't know:
  Daisy: Oh, no, we meant about your boss.
• World of Snark: Justified in that the two main characters work in comedy.
• Workout Fanservice: Ruby, who's lean and attractive, is shown vigorously exercising while in revealing workout clothing in Season Three.