https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM
― 乒乓, Monday, 16 December 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
so good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
last couple of eps have been a major downer for me as either reused skits and characters take center stage or the skits just failhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6es6zh1cas always, don't read the comments
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
when someone brought up to me "man, they, do a lot of gay jokes, don't they?" i was ignoring it for a while, but...
― Nhex, Monday, 16 December 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
the ending of the skit above where flamboyant gay man says "oh i'm not persecuted, I'm just an asshole" and then exaggeratedly licks a massive candy schlong is not particularly defensible
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
I'm on board with these guys in general but there is something a little off, like they rely too heavily on certain tropes/approaches in a way that seems basically conservative - a midway point between Mr. Show and Dave Chapelle without ever going quite as far as either.
where did these guys come from? were they doing their own individual things (standup, improv etc) prior to this? they seem to have come out of nowhere
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
mad tv i thought?
― Mordy , Wednesday, 18 December 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
re: production quality - http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/12/getting-the-many-looks-of-key-and-peele/
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
last couple of eps have been a major downer for me as either reused skits and characters take center stage or the skits just fail
every episode so far has had one sketch that I absolutely love but I can definitely agree with this. lately it seems like a lot of these sketches are just vehicles for odd one-liners.
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
The best skit show going (damning with faint praise I know). I like it better than Chapelle's Show (which had a lot of weak bits,) way better than "Whitest Kids" and miles better than those new dudes Bob Odenkirk sponsors. They can get just as weird as Tim & Eric and their acolytes but with the added benefit of actually being funny.
― All kinds of heinous things, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
agreed
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah I find it funny that a lot of the online ads for it emphasize "hey, this is on TV, you don't have to just watch it on Youtube", even though it really is the perfect show for Youtube viewing, since a lot of these sketches are well worth watching multiple times and I don't think they've done an episode of all good ones yet (in my opinion of course)
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
they're probably getting a minuscule amount of money from YouTube ads... but this is honestly one of the few sketch shows out there that has a > 50% hit rate on their half hours, for the most part, difficult enough task as it is
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
kinda reminds me of Big Train (at least the first season), which was 25% absolutely hilarious, 50% interesting (if not laugh-out-loud funny), and 25% total dud
where K&P excel is that even if you don't really like the joke, there's something else to appreciate. the one where they're two jazz musicians constantly trying to one-up each other (or the funk band that was just spouting nonsense about garbage and food) weren't necessarily all that funny to me but they were shot and acted out so well that I really enjoyed them anyway.
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
^thanks for the tip on the jazz duel, i had not seen that one and i love it deeply.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 19 December 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
speaking of this one is really funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiA4blvQPQ
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
pussy on the chainwax redeemed by the too emotional zag when i assumed a zig was coming and the "coming to a conversation near you" graphic because i feel fairly certain i am gonna hear someone say that shortly.
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 05:10 (ten years ago) link
dog park skit was perfect, really hit all the dog park marks
― mitch hedberg and kevin hart (sleepingbag), Friday, 20 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i agree
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
ok i keep thinking about "potato, potato" and losing my shit.
― eric banana (s.clover), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
this is probably the most lean, polished sketch show that has ever existed
― wavy tare's cashout flicks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 March 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
like the more i watch this, the more i realize that these two guys have more sketch chops than anyone working today outside of kate mckinnon. the fact that they can both be on the same show is kind of unbelievable.
― perfect puppy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
props of course to these dudes but i wonder how much of this is due to being able to do pre-recorded segments with production standards that would've been insanely cost-prohibitive even five years ago. say what you will about the lonely island dudes, they afaik were the first to really do the whole high-end production w/low-brow humor thing.
part of what makes so many of their skits work is that they are on-location and not on chintzy soundstages. and not playing to a studio audience tamps down the tendency to go super broad and lowest common denominator.
― gbx, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
the continental breakfast sketch plays out in my head more or less every time I eat breakfast in this hotel :D
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link
i wanna eat a banana sideways
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 07:16 (ten years ago) link
first S4 sketch came out yesterday and it's hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWO1pkHgrBM
nearly 400k views in less than 24 hours. amazing
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 19 September 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
really psyched for this
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Friday, 19 September 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
with october approaching, I am having very fond memories of their halloween episode
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
:D
― imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
'ahh, the pit of the donut. thank you, Turkey' and 'like GoGurt but to stay' probably make me laugh harder than any other lines delivered on television.
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
that might be one of the 3 or 4 best tv comedy sketches ever
― imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
the one sufjan is referring to
it pretty much changed the entire hotel experience for me
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 19 September 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
ya see above
― imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
'like GoGurt but to stay'
hahahaha, I was walking down the street this morning thinking about this line
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 September 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
still knocking it out of the park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niL0a8U1T-A
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
omg that was amazing.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
did all of that stuff actually happen in Family Matters?
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
the plots that they reference, that is
S8E1"Steve, Stefan and the Winslow family spends a vacation at Paris with his Urk-Pad after accidentally sending Carl in place of cheese to his pen pal, Nicole. All is not well when they first arrive, Eddie accidentally damages the café that his parents were eating at and is forced to work there to pay off the damages. Then Nicole is blackmailed by her opportunist cousin, Gilbert to get the plans of the Urk-Pad. Meanwhile Stefan looks to Steve and asks him to help him build his family tree (per Laura's recommendation). The nerd not only helps him build his using the Urkel family tree, but he also admitted that he created Stefan for a lot of things he wanted to be in his life. Stefan admitted that he wasn't a smart guy, but does come close."
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
the Urk-Pad is a teleportation device of Steve's invention. He also invented a time machine, a cloning machine, a Transformation Chamber, and more. They're not exaggerating in the sketch, no.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140316093142/familymatters/images/7/7d/Urkelbot.jpg
― Øystein, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
i always laugh at their stuff but also find myself wishing they were funnier :(
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
damn, I must have blocked these Family Matters episodes from memory
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i had no idea about any of that weird family matters stuff
― gbx, Thursday, 16 October 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
I know taking a concept and stretching it way beyond the breaking point is these guys thing but damn did that two old ladies in church sketch go farther than I could've possibly imagined. Went from "I hope this ends soon" to "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON" real fast
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Saturday, 18 October 2014 04:21 (nine years ago) link
that family matters sketch was hilar
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 October 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
i have never watched this before, didn't even know what it was, turned on the tv in a hotel at random and saw the "old ladies in church" sketch, holy crow, how have i never encountered this insanity before
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 18 October 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
i mean good insanity by the way