[7.2/10] Like with any sketch show, there’s a lot of unevenness here, but the good outweighed the bad. The theme of corporate culture was a fun one, particularly the opening where they framed the “monologue” (such as it is) as an investor call.
Framing the next sketch as an expose on the use of child labor in comedy was a good bit of dark humor, and the show made good use of Bob’s child laborer as a recurring character. The one part in this that I really didn’t care for was the Van Hammersly billiards education tapes which, like the crimestoppers sketch, felt like a parody of something that didn’t work if you’re not familiar with the source of the parody.
The comic inversion of the parents who gets upset they kid isn’t gay was a little too easy of a gag, but worth a chuckle. And the follow-up sketch, with a day in the life of the eccentric billionaire who owns the show was initially funny enough between encouraging his employees to make mistakes and forcing tofu-based treats on everyone, but suffered from the same old Mr. Show pathology of going on too long.
I did appreciate the total weirdness of the sketch with Bob and David where Bob is a lunatic and David keeps getting fired, and transitioning to what felt like a Twilight Zone riff on downsizing from Tom Kenny was great too.
Last but not least, I also really enjoyed the “San Francisco: The Theme Park” bit, both for its musical theatricality and for how it works as an amusing commentary about how unique elements of a place are inevitable sanitized, caricatured, and softened for mass consumption. And the closing bit, with the ol’ “sweeping up the spotlight” bit, ending with a callback was a nice touch.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-07-10T18:34:06Z
[7.2/10] Like with any sketch show, there’s a lot of unevenness here, but the good outweighed the bad. The theme of corporate culture was a fun one, particularly the opening where they framed the “monologue” (such as it is) as an investor call.
Framing the next sketch as an expose on the use of child labor in comedy was a good bit of dark humor, and the show made good use of Bob’s child laborer as a recurring character. The one part in this that I really didn’t care for was the Van Hammersly billiards education tapes which, like the crimestoppers sketch, felt like a parody of something that didn’t work if you’re not familiar with the source of the parody.
The comic inversion of the parents who gets upset they kid isn’t gay was a little too easy of a gag, but worth a chuckle. And the follow-up sketch, with a day in the life of the eccentric billionaire who owns the show was initially funny enough between encouraging his employees to make mistakes and forcing tofu-based treats on everyone, but suffered from the same old Mr. Show pathology of going on too long.
I did appreciate the total weirdness of the sketch with Bob and David where Bob is a lunatic and David keeps getting fired, and transitioning to what felt like a Twilight Zone riff on downsizing from Tom Kenny was great too.
Last but not least, I also really enjoyed the “San Francisco: The Theme Park” bit, both for its musical theatricality and for how it works as an amusing commentary about how unique elements of a place are inevitable sanitized, caricatured, and softened for mass consumption. And the closing bit, with the ol’ “sweeping up the spotlight” bit, ending with a callback was a nice touch.
Overall, a good episode.