The response is in no small part due to Robinson’s performance-the more he contorts his blank-slate face to match his characters’ plight, the deeper and weirder the sketches become. Yet no comedy this year has embedded itself as deeply within viewers’ imaginations, not to mention their social feeds, as I Think You Should Leave, a show beloved by everyone from Conan O’Brien to Lin-Manuel Miranda to vocal mega- fan Wale (“funniest shyt ever”). I Think You Should Leave premiered on Netflix this spring, in the form of six brisk episodes, around 15 minutes each it was possible to watch the entire first season in roughly the same amount of time it takes to view a single episode of SNL. “People say in their brain, ‘If I keep talking, or keep doing this, maybe this goes away.’ And it never does. “Which is so true in life,” Robinson says. In the series’ very first sketch, a nice-enough fella tries to exit a job interview by pulling a door clearly meant to be pushed instead of admitting his mistake, he just keeps on stubbornly pulling anyway, splintering the door and the frame, and making the veins in his forehead pop out. But unlike that Easter Bunny, Robinson’s characters usually react by doubling down, or even tripling down, on their own bad instincts. On his endlessly loopable hit sketch series I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, he often plays hapless schmoes who get stuck in unwinnable situations. Robinson tells me this story over breakfast one October morning in Burbank, California, and as he imitates the escalating desperation in the Easter Bunny’s voice- I’m just trying to go to my car-it’s hard not to imagine it’s actually Robinson trapped within the suit, searching in vain for a dignified escape. Check out The Ringer’s look back at the best and most notable of 2019
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