![]() Tim Robinson: We started writing together mostly my second year on SNL, when I got moved into the writing staff, which I think was a good decision. How and when did you start working together? Was there something specific you bonded over? And then how did you know it was a fit? Tim, coming from Second City Detroit and then Chicago, joined the cast in 2012. ![]() Zach, you’re coming from the Harvard Lampoon and working at the New Yorker. ![]() (You can download the episode from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.) You can read a transcript of the conversation below, or listen to this week’s episode of Good One right here. But where did this sketch - and more important, this man - come from? How was the sketch written, shot, and edited? Those questions and so many more (like whether they shot anything else with Rabasa) were answered as part of the live oral history of the sketch that took place at Vulture Festival earlier this year. Of course, the sketch was “Focus Group,” one of the best of the decade, and that man was Ruben Rabasa, a Cuban-born working actor and one of the most memed men of 2019. The man suggests the car be “too small.” Robinson asks for any other ideas and, waving his hand in front of his nose, the man suggests “stinky.” A star was born. But then a mysterious man offers the idea of “a good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off while you’re driving.” Wait, what? A couple more ideas, then again: “A good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off your hand while you’re driving.” A couple more ideas. Co-creator Zach Kanin, playing Paul, suggests “Bluetooth capabilities.” Sure, fine. ![]() Midway through the third episode of I Think You Should Leave, Netflix’s summer sketch sensation, co-creator Tim Robinson asks a focus group for some ideas for Ford. I Think You Should Leave’s Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin, Akiva Schaffer, and Ruben Rabasa at Vulture Festival. ![]()
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