i think you should leave with tim robinson

old bart dogfuck
had a dong a mile long

i've been asleep for too long
my eyes are opening
don't wanna be a puppet
just dancing on a string

Was listening to NPR in the car this morning and they had an intelligence expert on (didn't catch his name) to reflect on the impact of Robert Hanssen, spy who just passed away. This guy was narrating what the mindset was in the CIA/FBI as various covert ops were inexplicably foiled and without missing a beat dropped a "We're all looking for the guy who did this"

Could've been a winking ref, or just a coincidence, but my money is on ITYSL phrases seeping permanently into our culture and lexicon

or maybe I just see the world wildly

Ramp guitar by Slish Valez

My gf told me "I have NEVER heard you laugh that hard" (w/r/t FEED EGGS)

one thing I like is that they just cut sketches off instead of trying to resolve these absurd scenarios in the classic SNL style

"Kim Kardashian's head fell off" feels like the end of an improv game where everyone breaks down into laughter because the improviser got into a hole.

Which is why I laughed so hard at it

baby baby baby baby bay bay bay

one thing I like is that they just cut sketches off instead of trying to resolve these absurd scenarios in the classic SNL style

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, June 7, 2023 9:16 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's my biggest problem with SNL as exemplified by the "Roundball Rock" sketch which was one of the few Tim Robinson actually managed to get on the show. first few minutes of that are hilarious, then they kinda just beat the joke into the ground and have the characters just destroy the set for whatever reason

idk i still think it's funny to think of john tesh busting up a record company (uh, tv network) office like ice cube or someone

SNL have a lot of time to kill, so the sketches always go on too long. Meanwhile every year Tim gives us a streamlined equivalent that turns out be the length of uh 1 SNL episode

Agree that SNL should air once a year.

the thing of having the sketches just stop like on ITYSL probably isn't possible on a show filmed in front of a live audience like SNL.

Key and Peele is the only sketch show I can think of that was consistently good at ending sketches (as opposed to being good at smoothing over the fact that the sketches don't have endings)

K&P was really good at taking things to their logical conclusion and then finding a way to go even beyond that

I rarely find things really funny, but this show was one of the few that literally made me crack up

Have never done actual crack in my entire life, though, for whatever that's worth

Still need to finish watching the new season. Episode 1 wasn't that great for me

I thought the new season was a big drop-off. Maybe it's just more of the same and some of the novelty has worn off? It def just felt like the same skit over and over again. The details are still brilliant, the performances great, I mean still funny but didn't hit me the same.

just watched Episode 5, two all-time crazy sketches in that one, plus the one with Tim Meadows. always happy to see that guy pop up. idk I've found this season to be pretty consistently great - Season 2 was the one that was more hit-and-miss for me. dunno if it's been remarked in here yet but I love how so many of the actors just look like normal people, since no one really looks like an actor you don't know who's going to fly off the handle

I could do with more Tim-as-the-straight-guy sketches, and maybe fewer office-based ones (they do tend to be the funnier ones but I'm a little tired of office settings.)

Watching the reality show/zipline one a second time is a treat, cos you pick up on the zipline and big splashes being in the background of the intro sequence.

just watched Episode 5, two all-time crazy sketches in that one, plus the one with Tim Meadows. always happy to see that guy pop up.

Me too; he's one of those actors whose name I shout when he appears unexpectedly. I saw him at Second City in the late '80s, and you could tell then that he was going places.

the thing of having the sketches just stop like on ITYSL probably isn't possible on a show filmed in front of a live audience like SNL.

Sure it is -- think of how many SNL sketches had awful endings that were met with applause (obviously prompted by the applause sign). In addition to a sketch being funnier with a dead-stop lack of resolution, it would be that much funnier with an audience applauding such a baffling ending.

THAT ISN'T ENOUGH TIME!!!!

He has hair! Cloth is like little hairs!

I'm not in trouble *at all*

Oh my god is that pen on fire!???

What are you doing?

I will need to watch this season again but I second that they reduce the reliance on office- or party-set sketches.

another thing that is getting formulaic is a dude gets super angry and aggro yelling then falls into weepy self pity trying to explain why he was freaking out

and has existential crisis

he pulls on the rope. he wrenches on the rope.

Bart Harley Jokic https://t.co/qjSzNBs1zW

— fraser ramon (@SteveMerkle9) June 13, 2023

ahahaha no way

FUCK YOUUUU HARLEY JOKIC

just noticed the lonely island are exec producers, good job lonely island

very glad when anyone gives patti harrison something to do, give me all the patti harrison

The Fatal Farm guys are involved too. So is Alec Robbins. And Connor O’Malley. Lotta weirdly ambitious internet guys on this

jokic is shirt brother #3

Big night for our Shirt Brother Nikola Jokic! pic.twitter.com/aZMf5rokwZ

— BIFF WIFF (@REALBIFFWIFF) June 12, 2023

He took everything off the backboard

this show is somewhat formulaic, tim plays variations of the same character in every sketch, and i do not care. a whole season is like 90 minutes long, whatever.

occasionally they have a non-tim actor doing the tim role and it’s weird

Conner O'Malley doing it was nice in the Frankenstein's chick sketch

I guess he wanted to own his life or something

on a sadder note, something I just learned - Biff Wiff has cancer :(

https://www.gofundme.com/f/biff-wiff

back away, banana breath. what the hell did you just eat, a banana?

lol, just finished this the other night and that's definitely the line I keep coming back to.

I TOLD YOU I CAN'T DO IT

how big are you?

"You know NOTHING about games"

"Knowing about games isn't cool!"

this show is somewhat formulaic, tim plays variations of the same character in every sketch, and i do not care. a whole season is like 90 minutes long, whatever.

― na (NA), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:26 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think it being formulaic and the same character over and over is inseparable from what makes it funny, a lot of it feels like it takes place inside one person's head - or the humour comes from the tension between the version of reality inside one characters head and the incompatibility between that and 'real' reality, which I guess is the case with lots of sketch shows, but here it often not clear if what you are seeing is the version of reality inside the characters head or the 'real' reality, and sometimes the perspective will shift mid-way through a sketch? Some of the conversations feel like a dream, in that when you have a conversation a dream it's all taking place inside your own head, you're actually only having a conversation with yourself, it's a monologue and not a dialogue.

I wasn't getting 'cokehead' or 'overgrown child' from the characters as much as 'autism spectrum disorder'. A lot of the sketches seem to be based around someone unable to mentally model other people's thoughts and feelings, to imagine the world from someone else's perspective, unable to connect with other people. Or that particular nauseous feeling when you say something that seems perfectly straightforward and self-evident inside your own head, but you're met with looks of confusion and discomfort - struggling and failing to communicate something inside your head to other people.

some of the intentionally bad/off sounding dialogue, the more Tim and Eric type stuff also makes me think of someone talking to themselves - I don't know what the correct term for this is, but "functional" dialogue, like the dialogue characters speak in adverts or instructional films or the non-pornographic scenes in porn films, where the purpose isn't the conversations themselves, like they would be in a drama, but the dialogue is functional set up whatever the purpose of the footage is, and it sometimes has a kind of eeriness about it when out of context because it feels like one person talking to themselves, the people speaking don't have any inner life you can infer. And sometimes characters in the sketches go from sounding like 'real' people to sounding like someone having a conversation with themselves.

^ yeah very well put.

in writers rooms, writing that kind of dialogue can often be a tedious chore, since it obv has no purpose other than to establish that the action takes place at a party, meeting, etc, but if you dont get it right it will sound weird and distracting. Equally tedious is coming up with character and place names that dont sound made up, which is harder than you might think, especially when you need a whole script full of them. one of the little pleasures of the show for me is how they mess with the form by almost seeming to call attention to how little effort was put into coming up with that stuff, beyond the bare minimum needed to support the structure of the scene. So many of the names just sound like first-thought placeholder names that you use when writing because you dont want to lost momentum by getting hung up thinking of a 'good' name: Corncob TV, Jeffy Jeremy, Roy Donk, etc.

there are certain words and phrases and images that pop up in different sketches as well, this might just be because they're words Tim Robinson finds funny, but it does kind of make it feel dreamlike, like your brain is cycling through the things you happened to see that day, and they pop up in random places - like the cigar in the driving crooner skit, and then the cigars on Will Forte's phone in the Ponytail sketch, or the various references to skeletons