I'm only halfway into Taz Vs. Dracula and I already love it so much
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Last year-ish I recall an interview with Rhys Darby where he was talking about being a young comedian and feeling like he always had to get the bigger and bigger laugh, to keep the audience, and the result was that he stopped caring how he got it. As he got older, he decided to just do his art, stop worrying about it, and hope the audience met him there. (I'm paraphrasing, 'cause I can't find the interview.)
I think this translates to what we see in OFMD with him and Taika Waititi, and what David Jenkins has said about how they make each other vulnerable. They don't try to undercut those serious, more emotional moments with humor, to "get the bigger laugh," and that's a big part of what makes the Stede/Ed relationship work. It's funny and it's fun, but there's no puncturing of the emotions with a sudden joke (which would've been so easy to do, and I'm sure there are times in rehearsal where they went too far and had to pull back). Even the ad-lib of the thumb war doesn't puncture anything, because it's sweet and silly and in character, and also quite intimate. The little whispered "you won" packs so much joy and love.
It's cool how the comedy itself is profound because it works alongside the more serious emotions, and that's very much down to the two of them.
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close your eyes and imagine the six idiots on taskmaster. it's the best thing you've ever seen right? come on, you know this to be true. it's the only thing that matters.
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I love that they bring out the noise boys to bookend a season and remind everyone why it the concept was deemed hysterially funny enough to get a spinoff. brennan wasn't lying when he said the energy in the studio was crackling, it was just top to bottom a really good episode, and one that could have only been so almost abstract at times because these guys have done this so many times together
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my beloved savanaclaw trouble duo shdhdjjf
ruggie: wow it would be nice if i was chosen for this n got that extra money...
leona: ok so what i'm hearing is. you want extra work ?
ruggie: WAIT NO—
also you just KNOW leona's all bark no bite, look at his little smirk, he's not actually gonna give ruggie extra work sgdhfhfh he's just teasing him bc he knows of ruggie's money-hungry tendencies
also i'm a firm believer that leona would pay ruggie for any extra work he does. ruggie Would Not miss an opportunity to charge him for shit or get extra benefits, and leona simply Does Not Care that much to say no to him bc it's easier to say yes
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adding onto the future album idea… she’ll be ranting to rafe about something that happened in her friend group and constantly say type shit😭😭
this idea is genuinely so funny its such gold omgg
"so then she told me her boyfriend actually was talking to her other friend the whole time, and i was like you're on some crazy type shit. because i would never stay friends with her after that. or stay with him! single type shit. and she was like, she doesn't care because there's this cute pogue she buys weed from and she wants to date him. she's on her pogue type shit. but, i support her, since i'm on my supportive friend type shit. y'know?" and rafe is looking at you like 🤔
"what?"
"ugh, rafe, you're on your confused type shit."
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I love how half this website felt it necessary to cancel Kyle Gordon—a Jewish comedian—for a character (based on Gordon and his brother themselves) they considered ableist, which then escalated to a ridiculous rap sheet that culminated in accusations of antisemitism...
... but when this site's multimillionaire faves actively throw their weight behind an apartheid state (in addition to a long list of things like broader racism, transmisogyny, biphobia, and abuse apologia), suddenly, it's complicated. it's nuanced. it's... whatever you need to sleep at night.
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"how did he get patrick in those pants"
listen man i know my guy p. stump he's the kind of white guy who unironically thinks watchmen is some deep political manifesto
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