This is the setup for the new TBS series “Chad,” a cringe-inducing comedy in the vein of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” only instead of Larry David playing a fictionalized and misanthropic version of himself, 39-year-old “Saturday Night Live” alum Nasim Pedrad is playing Ferydoon “Chad” Amani, a teenage boy. Chad asks Ikrimah to drive him to school the next morning and cranks up the music as they pull up, in a blatant effort to demonstrate his “cred” or some such thing. That evening, when Chad meets Ikrimah the new boyfriend, he has a total change of heart about the man being Muslim because he’s Black.
On Chad’s first day of school, he manages to insult and offend a number of new classmates before the start of first period and later spins wild tales about having had sex over the summer in order to impress the cool kids. If it makes you feel better, there are a lot of people who say it’s not even real.” When Chad sees his friend Denise, he asks, “You still have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?” Denise says, “It’s CHRONIC, so yeah,” to which Chad replies: “That sucks so hard.When Chad’s little sister gives him a hard time, he says, “Nikki, no offense, but you are a whore.” (Mom: “Chad!” Chad: “I said no offense! God!”).His mother says, “You do realize technically WE’RE Muslim?” Chad replies, “Yeah, we’re Muslim enough, we don’t need people thinking that’s like our whole thing!” After learning his divorced mother has begun dating a Muslim man named Ikrimah, Chad freaks out.