Beth and Kat on Conan

Beth Behrs grabbed Kat Dennings’ breasts on Conan. Just reached over and did it. Not as part of some bit, not ironic, not as a setup for a laugh—just grabbed them on network television. It was crude and perfect.

2 Broke Girls is that kind of thing. It knows exactly what it is and doesn’t pretend otherwise—a sitcom about two broke women working a diner in Brooklyn, written to make you laugh at obvious jokes and look at attractive people. There’s something honest about that.

The whole thing operates in this space where it’s constantly testing what network TV thinks it’s supposed to be. The sexual tension, the body jokes, the willingness to be crude in ways most comedies won’t touch. It doesn’t apologize. So when Behrs does this on Conan, it feels like it finally gets to be exactly what it wants to be.

I like it. The writing knows what it’s doing, the cast has chemistry, and it’s not going to pretend to be something it isn’t. That moment on Conan probably was the moment of the year—just the show being itself on television.