Kanin: I think probably the first thing that we felt control over and were happy with was the “Bugs” video with Mike O’Brien. There’s kind of a lot I feel like that aired, but yeah. But things that made it on SNL that you guys wrote together.
If anything made it, that would be useful. Schaffer: You mean things that didn’t make it? I guess it’s probably just that sort of thing is what Zach and I find the most funny.ĭo you remember things that you wrote when you guys started out writing together on SNL? So what about that genre of sketch, which you’re saying is most sketches, do you think you responded to as opposed to rap parodies? Robinson: Like “Cowbell.” They’re like, “Stop that!” Like, “Oh, I think you need to get out of here now.”Īll right, then never mind. Robinson: To be fair, every sketch has someone in it they want to leave. So obviously at that time you’re like, “And then one day I’m going to have a sketch show on Netflix.” But of the things you did on air, did you feel like “Oh, there’s something there”? Because it is a similar thing of “Here’s this guy, and I think they’re like ‘want him to leave.’” They’re like, “Stop singing!” and then he hits everything. It was one I used to do years ago in Chicago. And I think there’s maybe one sketch that felt most like I Think You Should Leave, which is where Jason Sudeikis plays John Tesh and you play his brother and you’re pitching executives at the NBA, pitching executives on an NBA and NBC theme song. There’s “Z Shirt,” there’s a sketch where you play real-estate agents complaining about vandalizing their posters. To just back up again to Tim’s first year, there are a few things that you got on the air, that I’m assuming you had a hand in. Schaffer: They’re falling into the stereotype. Robinson: You said “wild card.” I am not a wild card. Robinson: I’m definitely not a wild card. Would you say that assessment is correct? I think there’s probably an assumption based on your backgrounds that Zach is sort of the structure and like more cerebral guy, and Tim as an improviser is more of a wild card, I think. I figured out that was the kind of thing I’d like to write. There was something about that guy, writing that guy who just had the stupidest idea and spending a billion dollars on it. Kanin: Calling it Titanic 2 and using all the same parts. Robinson: Yeah, he was building a replica of the Titanic. Zach Kanin: I think we maybe wrote one thing when you were in the cast, which was the “Weekend Update” where you played a guy who was … it was a real-life story about a guy who’s making a replica of the Titanic. Tim Robinson: We started writing together mostly my second year on SNL, when I got moved into the writing staff, which I think was a good decision. How and when did you start working together? Was there something specific you bonded over? And then how did you know it was a fit? Tim, coming from Second City Detroit and then Chicago, joined the cast in 2012. Zach, you’re coming from the Harvard Lampoon and working at the New Yorker.
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(You can download the episode from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.) You can read a transcript of the conversation below, or listen to this week’s episode of Good One right here. But where did this sketch - and more important, this man - come from? How was the sketch written, shot, and edited? Those questions and so many more (like whether they shot anything else with Rabasa) were answered as part of the live oral history of the sketch that took place at Vulture Festival earlier this year. Of course, the sketch was “Focus Group,” one of the best of the decade, and that man was Ruben Rabasa, a Cuban-born working actor and one of the most memed men of 2019. The man suggests the car be “too small.” Robinson asks for any other ideas and, waving his hand in front of his nose, the man suggests “stinky.” A star was born. But then a mysterious man offers the idea of “a good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off while you’re driving.” Wait, what? A couple more ideas, then again: “A good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off your hand while you’re driving.” A couple more ideas. Co-creator Zach Kanin, playing Paul, suggests “Bluetooth capabilities.” Sure, fine. Midway through the third episode of I Think You Should Leave, Netflix’s summer sketch sensation, co-creator Tim Robinson asks a focus group for some ideas for Ford.
I Think You Should Leave’s Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin, Akiva Schaffer, and Ruben Rabasa at Vulture Festival.
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