They'll discuss their new book 'The History of Sketch Comedy' at the Chicago Humanities Festival.
This isn’t meant to be answered with certainty, but for a moment, ask yourself: What is the single best comedy sketch of all time? From any source — Abbot & Costello, Monty Python, “Saturday Night Live,” “Portlandia,” “Chapelle’s Show.” There’s no ruling body on the question, not even a Rolling Stone-esque comedy magazine to claim that authority.
He finds something 99% of humanity would let go and that’s what his characters give their attention to. The Marx Brothers worked that way. They would stop a plot — however loose that plot was — to be madmen. My favorite moments are when they take a second to just revel in a joke they just told. You could never do that in a movie today, but Tim does. He relishes in obsessing over something small.
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