![]() Episodes clock in at only around fifteen minutes each-you can inhale both seasons in just over three hours-giving them a snacky, propulsive feel. The show, whose first season aired in 2019, invites, and even demands, re-watching, re-mixing, and rote memorization. But many devoted viewers of “I Think You Should Leave” communicate the same way. To the outside observer, the exchange would have been totally incomprehensible. I yelled back, “I DIDN’T FUCKING DO THIS!” (from a sketch about a cable show, called “Coffin Flop,” that captures corpses falling out of shoddy caskets). By way of greeting me, Josh said, “I’m worried that the baby thinks people can’t change!” (from a sketch in which a baby judges a man for his past life as an obnoxious frat bro). When we saw each other face to face, we kept the stream of gibberish going, this time out loud. ![]() A little game developed between Josh and me: one of us would send an out-of-context quotation from a sketch, and the other would immediately type back a following line-“I hate bald boys!” “Every time I see them, I think I’m back in the pants”-or a totally different line from a different scene. ![]() It was the first time in a while that we had seen each other in person, but we’d been texting back and forth for weeks, ever since the second season of Tim Robinson’s zany sketch-comedy show “I Think You Should Leave” landed on Netflix, in early July. The other night, I ran into my old friend, the comedian and writer Josh Gondelman. ![]()
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