Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson are off-camera buddies as well as co-stars. Thanks to streaming, there s life after network TV cancellation. And thanks to the wide popularity of Detroit native Tim Robinson s Netflix series, a new audience has reason to discover Detroiters dumped by Comedy Central in 2018 after two seasons and now on multiple services. Robinson, who starred with real-life pal Sam Richardson in that earlier half-hour cable program, went on to co-create, co-write and produce I Think You Should Leave a shorter-form serving of zany sketches. Netflix this month released a second season of six episodes, each 16 to 18 minutes with brief bits. Richardson appears several times, and the show is a critical smash.
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Tim Robinson returns with more surreal comedy
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I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (Netflix) has a decent claim to be the first post-postmodern sketch comedy show. And if that sounds pretentious, it’s because it is. It’s almost impossible to write about the genre-warping series without sounding like you’re trying to craft a high-minded PhD about the very nature of comedy.
Suffice to say, Robinson, along with co-creator and co-writer Zach Kanin, knows that the audience understands the language of sketch comedy, its beats and rhythms, its setups and cues - and he seems determined to catch us out. Sketches never go where you think they will. Comic conventions are turned inside out. It’s sketch comedy as improvised jazz. (I’ll get that PhD yet.)
What to watch on Tuesday: ?I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson? on Netflix
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