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Funny Girl
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This is the story of a funny girl called Barbara.No, it holds no relation to the musical or film of that name starring Barbra Streisand.Nick Hornby's 2014 novel is about Barbara from Blackpool, who is a very beautiful blonde obsessed with I Love Lucy. She wins Miss Blackpool, but doesn't want to be a paid-for pretty face and instead runs away to London. Almost immediately, a talent agent asks who she's signed with and if he can persuade her to swap sides - still, for modelling. After turning down modelling jobs, she's finally given a comedy acting audition for a Playhouse sketch. She begins to write for the show, and grows undeniable chemistry with her co-star - also one of her favourite comic radio actors. The sketch spawns several series on television. Though she had taken the stage name 'Sophie', the producers imagine a name like Barbara fits her character more - she reveals it's her actual name - and the show gets called Barbara (and Jim) - Jim being the name of her character's husband whom misery befalls nearly Once an Episode.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })As of 2023, it has been adapted into a TV series by Sky, starrting Gemma Arterton and renamed Funny Woman. | |
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Hidden Depths: To the people who only think she's eligible to be a model. Also, at the start she's assumed to be longing but never going to do anything about her dreams, so ditching the beauty contest prize and running away to London is a show of this. | |
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Comic Actors: Set when the only example was Lucille Ball, Barbara's hero. | |
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Tom Hanks Syndrome: In-Universe. Clive (who plays Jim) wanted to break into dramatic acting to get a reputation and build his career up, but the show brings him more notoriety than the dramas of the day would have. | |
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