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The Banana Guy Cries and Callers Add Nothing

from Bribes and Bruschetta · #19

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The tension boils over as a banana-costumed improviser starts sobbing, callers from swing states phone in with nothing to offer, and Tim connects it all to a riff about kids who escape satanic pedophile cults growing up to be these anxious online personalities.

In this bit7 moments
  • 8:18A guy dressed as a banana starts sobbing during the bit.
  • 8:40Tim jokes that in Trump's America, you're a banana now, and the material doesn't land the same way in a crying room.
  • 9:01Modern comedy is just people gathering to talk about what they're afraid of.
  • 9:16The white, well-off liberal women in the room are taking the election the hardest, despite not being directly threatened.
  • 9:36Having callers phone in doesn't work for this format—they're bringing nothing to the table.
  • 10:08Tim riffs that kids who don't get abducted by satanic pedophile cults become anxiety-ridden people on Twitter.
  • 10:21He suggests the useless callers could have been useful to a senator trying to connect with the dark Lord.
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