Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: This new Hulu sitcom, starring Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner, tries to emulate Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm by building a show around abrasive and essentially irredeemable characters (Seinfeld) who are played by exaggerated versions of real performers (Curb). The major difference between those shows and Difficult People – and it’s a major difference – is that those comedies were funny, and their characters, however outspoken, oddly charming. The Billy and Julie shown in Difficult People are actually Unlikeable People, the kind you can’t wait to get away from. And on television, even with cameos in the pilot episode from Andrea Martin and Rachel Dratch, that’s way too easy to do. Two episodes premiere each Wednesday on Hulu – but this is more a warning than a recommendation.
NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: This is more warning than recommendation. Craig Robinson from NBC’s The Office, who has enough fans that they might be curious about this new sitcom, plays a substitute teacher whose students love him and his wacky sense of humor. (Clearly, this takes place in some educational alternate universe.) Consider this sitcom one of those late-summer network TV write-offs and burn-offs, because that’s what it is, with NBC scheduling its half-dozen episodes to air before September, and the “real” TV season, arrives.
Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET
Let’s not expend all of our Comedy Central parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow sadness on Jon Stewart. Most of it, sure. But Key & Peele are leaving after this season, too – and it should be embraced, and watched, while it’s here as well. Tonight’s sketches include a sexually oriented political scandal, and how not to respond to it publicly.
USA, 10:01 p.m. ET
At the conclusion of last week’s prison breakout series, things took a turn for the unbelievable (it looked like the prison guards, from less than 100 yards away, paid no attention to Rami Malek’s Elliot and his “gang” as they waited for one escapee to come their way – and other prisoners were equally uncurious). But that same ending also took a turn for the very dark, and now Elliott has a corpse on his hands. Or, at least, in his trunk. And, no doubt, revenge on his mind…
Comedy Central, 11:00 p.m. ET
This last week of The Daily Show hasn’t really covered any new ground in its interview segments – they’ve just allowed Jon Stewart to spend a few more on-TV minutes with some of his favorite guests. And he’s earned that, certainly, so enjoy as he indulges. Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents its penultimate guest: Louis C.K.