i think you should leave with tim robinson

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

Don't forget the Macanudos

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.

I think my favourite example of this is from the bit about the guy who's conning adult men into thinking they're going to be pop stars: "We gotta fly Jeff Chris down from Indiana to mix it professionally!"

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

― frogbs, Monday, June 12, 2023 11:38 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I just saw Connor O'Malley live, was fucking INCREDIBLE, wasn't standup, he put on an investor presentation for his new business Connor O'Malley's Comedy Solutions, which has created a "5G powered AI comedian", was literally one of the funniest/craziest things I've seen, included about a solid 10 minutes on how great the Toyota RAV4 is.

uh yeah if you haven't seen his "rebranded Mickey Mouse", this is maybe even crazier than any ITSYL sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6VOgmv9-c

if anyone deserves a show it's him. and Joe Pera!! maybe they can do a show together???

I think my favourite example of this is from the bit about the guy who's conning adult men into thinking they're going to be pop stars: "We gotta fly Jeff Chris down from Indiana to mix it professionally!"

― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Wednesday, June 21, 2023 10:06 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah "jeff chris" is an amazingly real-feeling/uncanny professional mixer name

Connor O'Malley is not a comedian. He's a hilarious performance artist. Or something. I don't know what he is but he's special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYLxkGz00d0

i'd give up every computer to bring the mob back

A lot of the Tim Robinson sketches seen to be about people's fantasies, or the version of reality inside people's heads uncomfortably colliding with the real world, or the version of reality inside someone else's head - like the Bob odenkirk skit where the guy starts going on this elaborate revere Tim has to play along with, sketches where someone tried to transfer some elaborate idea from their mind to the real world and it's a disaster

Like the dreams/reality diagram from rather ted

the lady in the "banana breath" sketch is a specific archetype of employee that I suspect many of us have worked w/ (I definitely have), someone who is socially awkward and is treated like an outsider finally gets (extremely mild) acceptance from her peers and eventually pushes it overboard and blows all of that goodwill in 2 minutes.

I know Robsinson was a writer on snl as well as being a cast member, does anyone know what sketches he wrote? This one feels a lot like an I Think You Should Leave sketch, I don't know if he was involved with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUv59Yu04Y

That’s a hard call because that could also have just been Beck Bennett being weird on his own

I've always assumed this was him. He's in it obviously, but it has a proto tummy tuggers vibe. It also hits way too close to home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrtuqoHhcQ

I always thought this was him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkrpvCs-kfE

I don't know who did Santa Baby but it's a favorite. Gosling and Vanessa's performances are amazing.

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.

there are lots sketches in this show where there's a familiar/bland format or situation and then they introduce some particular detail that is weird and/or overly specific, and distracts from everything else, and becomes the focus when it shouldn't be.

weird, oddly specific details feels like a feature of a lot of internet humour, the kind of details that you wouldn't include in a (competently written) work of fiction because they don't serve any purpose or are actively distracting, I think because a lot of internet humour is based on imitating weird stuff that real people post to the internet - blog posts or forum posts, or adverts and articles that are written by non-native English speakers, or stuff written by the mentally ill, or wikipedia articles with weird, intriguing, not fully explained asides. A lot of clickhole articles followed this format of familiar, bland format and then introducing weird, specific, not fully explained details.

stuff people share on the internet like screenshots of newspaper articles or non-fiction books with some weird details, I think that inspires a lot of this kind of humour

yeah I always think this is sketch comedy for the Twitter/"out of context" era but thinking back Kids in the Hall was kinda like this too

so nice of Dan Flashes to make this Orlando City jersey

https://www.adidas.com/us/orlando-city-marvel-mls-americana-pre-match-jersey/IQ4217.html?fbclid=IwAR1cmmRs5RYuXNJN0qV1nIDo5qlmQCFhwx83O8pd3suRH3SbLk68PvL_QWw

I saw Herbie Hancock last night and couldn’t stop thinking about the corresponding sketch.

i love herbie hancock. he always lies

he was humping your head

okay that last sketch with Connor O'Malley is basically a really high production version of a Tony Zaret video

I hope Toilet Truck dies

thank y'all in this thread for alerting me to Detroiters, amazing show. I'm in the second season now and I can see Tim's reactions get more and more over-the-top, nearly approaching ITYSL levels

Just finished Detroiters a couple weeks ago -- GREAT show, and so many "this could've been in I Think You Should Leave!" moments/premises.

"i don't normally comment on the commercials, but that was terrible"

The episode with his brother struck me as particularly ITYSL-ish

Yes, all sorts of little moments that went on to become ITYSL sketches - the nerdy guy wearing the same jacket (shirt brothers), the guy explaining that the droplets on his pants weren't pee (Calico Cut pants), etc. The episode where the revered Mort Crim agrees to do a commercial and turns out to be a loon must have inspired the sketch where Tim's burger gets housed by his old business professor.

i gotta find a way to make money off this, it's simply. too. good.

THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT LOOK FAKE