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
i liked the steampunk sketch the other week as well
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 October 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/100512000615/loving-this-conversation-in-case-you-missed-it
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
oh my god the ending to this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_eJ-zdLrA
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
the punchline to the slap-ass revisited sketch almost killed me
― imago, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
I don't think there will ever be a sketch I love more than one that has an impersonation of the coke head in die hard that calls out the insanity of how family matters evolved
I am forever in their debt for it
― da croupier, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
as did that xp
― imago, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah I'm cracking up just thinking about it
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
i haven't found anything they've done in two episodes funny; this is completely missing me now
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
They're v inconsistent. And prone to running jokes into the ground.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
They're increasingly hit and miss for sure
― da croupier, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 03:09 (nine years ago) link
They definitely are, though I've rewatched some old episodes and found I liked a some of 'em way more the second time around. There are a lot of funny moments and great lines that they don't pause for. Also they tend to base a lot of sketches on kind of obscure tropes or insignificant tropes.
Well the second part is what I love about them, they come out the other side sometimes and taking things a few steps further than any other comedy show would is kinda their thing. If nothing else they really know how to end a sketch which is really lacking in a lot of sketch comedy (see: like 80% of all SNL skits)
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
The ending of the mattress skit is good, but what really gets me is when the sales guy goes to shake the customer's hand and the customer just sticks out his finger. It's a tiny moment in an otherwise pretty OTT skit but it's those tiny moments that make me love the show.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
I wish there were an occasion for me to yell at someone, "I've done more cocaine than you WEIGH, motherfucker!"
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Also they tend to base a lot of sketches on kind of obscure tropes or insignificant tropes.
this was a mr. show tic, and they are big fans
― stop looking at me, quan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
like "pussy on the chainwax"?
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
it feels like, as of late, they're leaning heavier on an insignificant trope to prop up an entire sketch and then not trusting the viewer to be clever enough to keep upgood example is the "Sex Investigator" skit last night where the character does the whole Hannibal 'this is my design' bit as he walks through the crime scene only he has to stop and masturbate every time he gets a revelationjust overly labored and without much payout; woulda been fine for a minute and a half and without the "Stand down Sergeant, that man is the best sex crime investigator in the department etc" expositoryas much as i appreciate K&P show's high production values, i think the quality of the setup and filming sometimes hamstrings them by forcing them to ride a joke longer than they would otherwise if it were just a digital camera on location or in a setthe hit-it-and-quit-it dada quality of mr show and kids in the hall is lacking
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
but criticizing comedy is a losing game
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
your formatting of that post is a losing game.
― how's life, Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
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― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
this show does look really good. i was watching chappelle's show recently and was struck by how cheap and shoddy everything looked-from the sets and the props to the video quality. I guess part of it is how far digital video/cheap CGI has come in the last 10 years.
― slam dunk, Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I'm walking into the fire here but Chapelle's Show was really inconsistent too. All sketch comedy shows are really. I can't prove it but I also feel like Chapelle's only had like 10-15 minutes of comedy sketches in it per episode, it always seemed like it had way more commercials than any other CC show.
I guess I would agree that K&P tend to go on a little longer than they need to sometimes but I think their most brilliant sketches are the longer ones like "Flicker" or "High on Potanuse" or "Das Negros", and I think they work because they're not just comedies, they're like mini-dramas in a way. That's why I love the ending to the Matress Shopping one, cuz it's such an emotional shock
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Like I don't if they've ever seen the UK show "Jam" but there's a similar vibe there sometimes
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link