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From a bizarre case of road rage to offbeat toilet humour, Tim Robinson’s superb sketch show returns to Netflix, taking the less-travelled path to laughter
Tim Robinson looks like any old generic, middle-aged American white guy you might see shopping the aisles of Walmart or chugging bottled beer in a sports bar,while cheering on the Cincinnati Bearcats. That’s a kind of superpower for a sketch comedian. In fact, he’s the aberrant talent behind I Think You Should Leave, the breakout sketch comedy hit of 2019, now back on Netflix for a second season.
Robinson also honed his craft the American way – as a performer, then as a writer, on Saturday Night Live, from late 2012 to the 2015-16 season. This relatively short stint suggests he never quite found his niche within the late-night institution, however. Is I Think You Should Leave the wastepaper bin where all his rejected SNL ideas ended up? If so, it can’t have been that the ideas weren’t good enough. They must have been too good, or too weird anyway – which in absurdist comedy terms is the same thing. Continue reading...