![]() This is also the point in the show when Brooks - who started things off by saying this night was about getting to “the bottom of Chunky’s deal” - revealed an exclusive ITYSL secret: Zach Kanin was the guy in the Chunky suit. He asked, nonsensically, “How much improv goes into your writing?” Brooks answered that there’s virtually no improv in the filming it’s all coming from Zach and Tim’s noggins. The judges all honestly said they liked the sketch but thought the ending was weak, except for Bruce Buckles, who pays $450 for Zoom sketch classes from a guy named Tedd Turner (with two d’s) in Arizona. If there were Emmys for furrowed brows, this sketch would sweep. Tim plays a guy who is told to fake a call whenever potential clients ask a question he doesn’t know the answer to … only he simply does not know how to fake a phone call. Bio actor-writer Brendan Jennings, who has been doing this character for over a decade. Who was this mysterious in-character dorkus? We did some research and pegged him as Tim and Sam’s old sketch buddy, A.P. The addition of this character sort of turned the panel itself into loose sketch, as he made Tim and Sam crack up for the rest of the night. The guest judge for this sketch was “level-one improviser Bruce Buckles,” who in his glasses and Hawaiian shirt simped for everyone else onstage and spoke about his experience having done one whole class at Second City. After the sketch, Sam said the kids in the sketch had no idea what was going on during filming while the director was telling them, “Now stomp around! Walk around!” they weren’t sure if this was an actual Little Buff Boy competition or what. We learned why Sam’s hair looks so weird in that sketch: because there’s a full bald-cap reveal underneath that got cut. What a crop of bull! The longer version allows you to really sit in the discomfort of a Little Buff Boys competition unfolding at a corporate conference. Somewhere out there, a seven-minute version of “Little Buff Boys” wastes away in an external hard drive, robbed from the world. And until they listen to me, here’s a rundown of the sketches you may have missed, who judged them, and what their verdicts were. If this show accomplished anything besides making an appreciative audience laugh and Tim blush, it was making the case for Netflix to add a “bonus features” tab to shows like ITYSL, because these extra sketches and scenes, and the commentary that went with them, would feed fans so well in the interim between seasons. For each sketch, they’d call up a guest judge onstage to rule on whether or not it should have been cut, with Tim looking head-in-his-hands bashful about the ordeal the whole time. ![]() But because Robinson and Kanin are the people they are, they couldn’t just play it entirely straight they turned it into a self-effacing competition. I had assumed an I Think You Should Leave show in a festival setting meant sketch comedy, but instead, with some hosting help from Brooks Wheelan, Tim and series co-creator Zach Kanin presented and analyzed seven filmed sketches: four that didn’t make the final cut of the show, and three extended director’s cuts, like the Turbo Team opener. It really gives the gag toilet for farts some context. This time around, they mow his lawn so it looks “like a shaved puss,” throw a disruptive party on his lawn because “beach music is supposed to be loud,” and keep pretending the guy is dead as they stomp all over his home. The show opened with a screening of the “Has This Ever Happened to You?” sketch, only it was a beefed-up cut full of even more ways for the Turbo Team to terrorize the poor guy in the video. When tickets for the show were released back in December, they sold out in something between three and five seconds, depending on which disappointed fan you ask, so everyone in the crowd was either very lucky, very skilled at clicking the second a ticket drops, or very works-at-Netflix. Earlier that day, Netflix announced that it was renewing the show for a third season, so the mood was celebratory in the 150-seat venue, which quickly filled up with fans, at least one of whom I saw wearing “Brian’s hat.” If the streamer is in need of goodwill (and let’s be clear, it is), then holding an event for a series with such a hyper-vocal, super-logged-on fanbase was a smart move. No, they didn’t flop any coffins, and no skeletons came to life either, but buried sketches were exhumed at Hollywood Forever’s Masonic Lodge on May 6 as Tim Robinson and company performed at the Netflix Is a Joke Fest. ![]() Obviously I Think You Should Leave held a live show at a cemetery. Photo: Araya Doheny/Getty Images for Netflix Brooks Wheelan, Zach Kanin, Tim Robinson, and Sam Richardson at the live I Think You Should Leave show at the Netflix comedy festival. ![]()
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