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Comedian Myq Kaplan joins us between albums to discuss his new album Live in Between Albums! We also cover: fitting in versus belonging, normalos and weirdos, and punk rock.
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On episode 281 Nick and Lottie’s I Think You Should Leave addiction is enabled and encouraged by Kevin, Jared and James from That’s a Chunky podcast (an ITYSL show). We focus on representations of gender in ITYSL, with the show “punching sideways” on gender – challenging the behaviour of other men. We discuss how gender is portrayed in the sketches: Instagram, Game Night, Jamie Taco and Coffin Flop. Also covered is neurodiversity, introversion and empathy amongst ITYSL fans. We had two ITYSL discussions with That’s a Chunky and you can check out the other discussion, covering gender and the politics of the ITYSL fandom, plus Australian versus US comedy and references, on their show. Also make sure you follow/subscribe to their show on your favourite podcast app, plus follow James on Twitter @ITYSL_memes!
Instagram sketch image from @nbaleave on Twitter.
This episode is wrapped up by briefly indulging Nick’s Andy Kaufman obsession, focusing on connections between Kaufman and ITYSL. For more on this, Kevin recommends the video The Other Tim From Allentown as an example of Kaufman-esque comedy from Tim Robinson and the book Andy Kaufman Revealed! Best Friend Tells All by Bob Zmuda and Matthew Scott Hanson. You can also check out a Twitter thread with ITYSL fans discussing the issue.
For those who found us through That’s a Chunky, if you want to check out some of our other episodes beyond our last three that have all been ITYSL-focused, an episode that is in a somewhat similar Q-Zone is Episode 267: Bo Burnham, Performance and Content Creation – ‘Part of Me Needs You’, as there are also themes regarding art, social commentary in comedy etc on that show.
The song 'Alien' by @Interruptweets reminds me of struggles experienced by #ithinkyoushouldleave characters who are "outsiders": 'And I don't fit in, I'm struggling I'm trying to be one of them But I'm an alien around here …They look at me like I'm from light-years away'#ityslpic.twitter.com/R5f2XSfU99
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Nick and Lottie continue their obsession with I Think You Should Leave, a sketch comedy show on Netflix. We discuss some of our favourite sketches from series 1 and 2, creating and/or listening to political versus apolitical podcasts and some of our contributions to the ITYSL fandom. Lottie’s memes cover pinkwashing (specifically corporate co-opting of queer movements) and Nick’s are on Duolingo – see here and here. If you haven’t heard it yet, you can check out our last episode ‘What is this Reggie? The Politics of I Think You Should Leave’, which is climbing up the “global comedy chart”!
Radical queers might say "no rainbow washing". BUT THEY CAN'T STOP YOU FROM ORDERING A CORPORATE LOGO AND A RAINBOW PALLETTE!
The sketches we discuss are piece of shit (our combined favourite series 2 sketch), photocopier (one of our biggest agreements in our series 1 rankings, Nick loves this one, Lottie not so much) and Laser Spine Specialists (our combined favourite series 1 sketch). Here are our combined series 1 rankings, going from our least favourite down to our most favourite:
29. Christmas Carol
28. Garfield house
27. New Joe
26. Motorcycles
25. Wilson’s toupees
24. Fenton’s
23. Lifetime achievement award
20. Choking
20. Baby shower
20. Both ways
18. TC tuggers (2 parts)
18. Honk if you’re horny
17. Instagram
Nick putting together his ITYSL series 2 rankings…on a serviette!
You can see our individual rankings of series 1 sketches as a comment on our blog progressivepostings.wordpress.com. You can also join in our Twitter thread discussing and debating our series 1 and 2 rankings.
Me and @lottiegasp recently hosted Rotations on @3CR with the theme of women in music. Features mostly sad indie pop songs (at least for my song choices 🙃) https://t.co/BnH4PEO7TX
— Song of the Day by NicksSong (@NicksSong) July 28, 2022
For those I Think You Should Leave fans who have found us, thanks for listening and hopefully you don’t think we’re pieces of shit! You can subscribe/follow our podcast on your favourite podcast app to be notified of future episodes and you can also sign up to follow our blog on the left of this page to get an email when we put out a new episode. If you want to check out a previous episode that has some ITYSL references, a good episode to start with might be Episode 273: This Episode is Problematic! Cancel Culture and Disposable People.
Today I'm enjoying the song Yurala and @Spinifex_Gum's whole live show from the Sydney Opera House (2019). I've been streaming the audio album but it's well watching the show via their website for a full experience with projected visuals, dancing etc.https://t.co/kEUaKlofxu
— Song of the Day by NicksSong (@NicksSong) July 13, 2022
You can listen to this episode above, subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, add us to your favourites on Stitcher, follow us on Spotify and listen to us via Amazon Music or Audible. You can also listen to this episode on Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (57mins, 39MB).
Nick is joined by fellow super-fan Lottie to discuss the sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave (Netflix). We discuss the politics of the show, focusing on Lefty politics in the fandom, gender and representation. We also cover some of our favourite sketches from Season 2, including Can’t Drive (our biggest disagreement in our rankings), Brian’s Hat (Lottie’s favourite) and Gimme Dat (Nick’s favourite).
— prime minister of metalcore (@deadsoulxiii_) June 29, 2022
Also covered on the episode is Season 1 versus Season 2 of ITYSL, the Billy Bob Thornton interview that inspired the Detective Crashmore sketch and the Andy Kaufman connection with ITYSL fans – for more on Kaufman check out the movie Man on the Moon and the documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Netflix).
See below for our combined rankings of all of the season 2 sketches (ranked from our least favourite at the top, down to our combined favourite at the bottom) – you can see our individual rankings on our blog progressivepostings.wordpress.com:
The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that this is fine. The people your baby sitter hit were kinda like nothing. Like they don’t matter. They weren’t even supposed to be around in the area. Don’t worry about it AT ALL
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