BuzzFeed - Lisa Kudrow discussed the finale, the second season as a whole, and addressed important questions (i.e., is Valerie Cherish Jewish?) with BuzzFeed News. Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, with Dan Bucatinsky as her publicist, in The Comeback's second season finale. Colleen Hayes / HBO The 2005 season of HBO's The Comeback combined comedic farce with a deep character study of Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow), a faded fortysomething actress hellbent on propelling herself back to fame, even if it came at a profound personal cost. The Comeback's tone was hilarious, painful, true, and uncomfortable; it was a specific evisceration of Hollywood, and a general examination of how women are treated, slighted, and discarded. But The Comeback â created by Kudrow and Michael Patrick King â flew too close to the sun and did not achieve broad success, lasting only that one 13-episode season. That is, until this past spring, when HBO announced that it would revive The Comeback,
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