“Bob did improvise a bunch at the end of that sketch,” Robinson says. Naturally, the weird lonely guy takes the lie too far. In his sketch, Odenkirk plays a lonely guy in a diner booth next to a father (Robinson) and his daughter who gets recruited by Robinson to help sell an innocent dad lie about why they can’t get ice cream. Show,” which was a major influence on Robinson and Kanin. One exception was the sketch comedy legend from “Mr. There’s almost no improvisation, so every actor commits to the absurdity and off-kilter dialogue they’re provided. It’s simply that “we circle certain situations all the time, as opposed to somebody being like me or seeming like me. That isn’t because they’re doing an impression, Robinson insists. Each sketch is intercut with brightly colored graphics and bits of upbeat soul songs. There are constants though, including farts, hot dogs, fake products, babies and grown men acting like babies. So there are things from Season 1 that I feel like we probably wouldn’t have written in Season 2.” “What you find funny each year you do comedy - I feel like it gets narrower and narrower. “Zach and I talk about this all the time,” Robinson says. The big difference between the two seasons of “I Think You Should Leave” was, of course, a pandemic - although Season 2 was all written prior to the global event, and Robinson says the virus situation didn’t kill the vibe when they were shooting. They’re currently editing the pilot for “Computer School,” a scripted comedy starring Robinson for HBO Max.
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Robinson and Kanin became friends while writing for “Saturday Night Live” a decade ago, and they made the short-lived Comedy Central series “Detroiters” before creating the Netflix sketch phenomenon. The new season offers plenty of variety - a ghost tour, a “Shark Tank” parody, a commercial for a show called “Coffin Flop” - and guest stars including Tim Heidecker, John Early and Bob Odenkirk.īut because the entire series mostly flows out of the absurd brains of Robinson and his co-creator, Zach Kanin, it’s variations on a theme: An odd and painfully awkward person gets into a sticky social situation, embarrasses him- or herself and digs an ever-deeper and elaborately funnier grave in a desperate attempt to escape the cringeworthy moment. That, in a nutshell, is what “I Think You Should Leave” is all about. “He’s saying anything in the moment to get out of his current situation.” “Well, yeah, but with that line in particular, I feel like he’s lying,” Robinson says, laughing. Not even that poor Robinson character who goes undercover for a hidden-camera prank show in a hilariously bad old man costume with a grotesque prosthetic head - and when he gets inside a mall food court to mess with unsuspecting strangers, he freezes and goes limp with despair, sighing: “I don’t even want to be around anymore”? But don’t feel sorry for the schmucks Robinson plays, even when they start to cry.
Instagram YouTube: reviewers have noted that the second season of “I Think You Should Leave,” the breakout sketch series fronted by comedian Tim Robinson, was more somber than the first.
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