i think you should leave with tim robinson: sketch poll

yeah otm, thats kind of the secret sauce that makes this different from cringe-comedy stuff. another early example of that which is oft-quoted around my house is the hot dog car sketch where tim is talking about spanking the perpetrator and one of the other bystanders is like "well SOMEBODYS gonna have to do it!"

yeah that's one of the reasons i loved everyone freaking out about tim choking on the hot dog in the first sketch xp

"Why is there swearing?"
"There's not! They just said 'shoot'"

yeah even in the boardroom scene (Dan Flashes), Doug goes from appearing as a responsible businessman mocking a younger dude's irresponsibility to actually revealing he's just a big bully who likes mocking Tim ("He got PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS at Dan Flashes"), and he's actually enjoying it.

i keep reading criticism that too many of the sketches in this season take place in office environments but idk, meetings are the kind of liminal space where this comedy functions really well, everyone is just enough of a stranger to each other and no one really wants to be there

exactly. it's a painful familiarity that often serves as a breeding-ground for laughs just on that alone. the fact that they don't actually parody traditional office politics and go off in absurdist, wtf directions on top of it is the icing.

like it's not "PC Load Letter? what the fuck does that mean?" humor, it's "oh hey, this guy is so devoted to not skipping lunch that he'd risk choking to death while secretly eating a hot dog in a meeting"

if i had to spend every day in a conference room for an entire week i too would skip all of my lunches to buy increasingly complicated shirts at dan flashes

I mean if you're saying the patterns aren't complicated....

they are....

they ARE

that's how they value the shirt, the more the lines crisscross and the patterns overlap

too many sketches with that same formula, that one was kind of weak

especially when there was another garment related office sketch (the pants website) that was way stronger

especially when there was another garment related office sketch (the pants website) that was way stronger

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but the pants aren't real

it's just a website that says the pants are real. don't you agree that's all that you need?

the dan flashes boardroom sketch was funny on its own, but was much better as a set up to that incredible callback later in the episode

Fav detail of Dan Flashes was that the shirt had the fuckin Windows 95 twisty pipe screensaver on it

The insider trading trial sketch was glorious

"Objection: relevance?"

"FINALLY!"

i think he has dice but he's afraid to show them to anyone

"You have to grease the wheels?"

Also who is the actress who was in the driver's ed video/the Shark Tank parody, because she should be cast in everything

patti harrison!

and wholeheartedly agreed

the highlight of shrill tbh

we're allowed to show em nude cos they ain't got no soul

there's only a few sketches i didn't laugh at, and I think one of them is the finding a doppelganger to frame DAve for having big dumps or whatever. that one was too out there even for me.

I think I just need some time at home, look inside myself, be with my family and try new restaurants.

xpost!

that's my George Kennedy, he's a perk.

Why would I want a George Kennedy?

I know, that's why he's a perk.

people say that it's healthy
but with that much cherry
and that much ground chuck
it CAN'T be healthy

so thrilled there actually was a good explanation for the tables

coffin drop show clips had me crying laughing

I don't know if this has been discussed but the particular manner in which sketches call back previous sketches in this show has Monty Python DNA

guessing most of you have seen this but this SNL skit he wrote is really good (though as usual for SNL, you don't really need to watch the second half of it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-uSWAJd9GE

Insider trading also my favorite so far, it went way farther than I was expecting

a show like coffin flop couldn’t be made today due to cancel culture pic.twitter.com/knnKJZnfxf

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My wife won't put up with 5 minutes of this show.

i think maybe some wires got crossed

Guayaquil (eephus!) at 10:30 9 Jul 21

I don't know if this has been discussed but the particular manner in which sketches call back previous sketches in this show has Monty Python DNA


feel like he probably got this more from Mr. Show

Mr Show was kind of a master at sketch segues and looping back to earlier sketches from previous eps

obv don't know for sure but just given his age and general aesthetic feels like Mr. Show would have been a pretty big deal to him

I love this show but Patti Harrison makes me cringe and not in a good, funny way.

The Vulture article on him the other day mentions he was a huge Kids in the Hall and Chris Farley fan as a kid.

too many sketches with that same formula, that one was kind of weak

especially when there was another garment related office sketch (the pants website) that was way stronger

feel like he probably got this more from Mr. Show

OK I've never watched Mr. Show so it's totally plausible I'm incorrectly reading ITYSL's pedigree

the quiet/loud, sweet/dumb Farley/Sandler era of SNL feels like a bigger touchstone than Mr. Show.

Yeah actually one thing I was going to say is I felt like there were more "loud Sandler" moments in this season than the last, and I actually prefer less.

Chris L at 2:15 10 Jul 21

The Vulture article on him the other day mentions he was a huge Kids in the Hall and Chris Farley fan as a kid.

ha well there you go, that's pretty much it to a tee

xpost circa, I did enjoy this season, but I think it's not on par with the first season. some instant classics, but like for example compare this season's Heidecker sketch to last season's Colgate Comedy hour jazz bore and, like c'mon, it's not even close

come on man she had a standing invitation to drink puke

howie sketch depicted an archetype so perfectly that i feel most sketches in human history pale in comparison