Thought you were through reading recaps of 2010? You were wrong! Vulture’s got one more for you, and it’s as graceful and inimitable as Larry Bird’s jump shot: We asked Rachel Dratch — a native Masshole who hilariously skewered her fellow kind for years, as Denise “Zazu” McDonough, on Saturday Night Live — to weigh in on what was a remarkably active year for the Boston accent in pop culture. From Julianne Moore to The Town to foul-mouthed Mad Men parodies, Dratch uses them to explain the nuances of what makes a prawpah Bostonian.
Genius. Brilliant. Perfect. I want to be in the next one. It’s not just the accent — the writing is so spot-on: i.e., “you half-a-fag.” I’ve never heard anyone say that but i wonder why I haven’t, it’s so perfect.
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