-Our next guest is an Emmy-nominated
writer and comedian you know from shows like
"Saturday night Live" and "Detroiters."
The second season of his fantastic show,
"I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson,"
is streaming globally on Netflix.
Let's take a look.
-They're saying they want to drop Corncob TV
because we showed over 400 naked dead bodies on our show,
"Coffin Flop."
[ Screaming ]
If you love Corncob TV shows,
it's time to tell Spectrum, "No."
They're saying "Coffin Flop" is not a show.
[ Screaming ]
It's just hours and hours of footage of real people
falling out of coffins at funerals.
[ Screaming ]
There's no explanation.
Just body after body busting out
of [bleep] wood and hitting pavement.
[ Screaming ]
-Please welcome back to the show our friend Tim Robinson.
Hey, Timmy. How you are, buddy?
-Hey, Pal. How are you? -I'm fantastic.
That continues to prove a point that I've said to people is
I will -- I have still not stopped laughing
at "Coffin Flops."
I've seen -- I've watched it 10 times start to finish.
It never -- it never stops getting funny -- being funny.
-Oh, I appreciate that, pal. Thank you so much.
-There was actually a lovely article
where they interviewed
the stunt guys and the directors of that sketch,
because this really is the audacity of sketch writers
that you and Zach Kanin, your co-writer,
you write this sketch, and then somebody
had to figure out how to make the coffins flop.
-Yeah. And the hardest thing I had to do
was sitting in a white room and just scream in the camera.
-Were there -- I heard there was one coffin flop
that you wrote that they couldn't figure out how to do.
-Well, not -- I don't want to take credit away from them,
'cause I bet if we would have been like,
"Can we please try this?" -- But I think Zach and I
even were like, "That's -- There's no way."
And it was -- The description was
"Person flops out of coffin, rolls downhill, and hits a bird.
A bird that's standing."
It was -- And the line, of course, was like,
"Yeah, some of them yard-sale down a hill and hit birds."
But, yeah, the hardest thing is, like,
you don't want to hit a bird, and how do you get a bird
to stand there with it's back turned
until it gets rolled into by a corpse?
-Yeah. Do you distract a bird with, like,
somebody has to hold a worm so that the bird --
It doesn't hear the coffin coming?
-Every time it starts to turn around you're like, "No, no, no!
Looky, looky, look."
-Do you remember -- Mike O'Brien has a wonderful cameo in this.
Do you remember the sketch he wrote for "SNL"
which was he was a reporter interviewing bugs?
-Oh, yeah. Of course. Yeah. -And the same thing.
Like, again, it's that thing where you're a writer,
you don't think about it, and then they hire a guy
who, like, brings bugs.
-Yeah. That was -- Yeah, Zach and I wrote that.
-Oh, I forgot you wrote it. -Yeah, yeah.
Zach and I wrote that with him.
And it was, like -- There was one bug there
that the bug handler was like --
He's like, "Don't let that one get away.
If that one gets away, it could mess up
the entire New York City ecosystem."
And we were like, "What is that bug?
Put it away!"
-Like, how good an actor is that bug
that it's worth risking it?
-No. Not worth it. You have to tell me this.
I don't want that bug around.
-He's real good, though.
He'll hit a mark.
Never loses his light.
-We also found out -- On that thing, it was like --
The whole thing was like bugs -- Like, when you see them,
they're running or whatever,
and when it's cold, they don't run.
-Which the guy, of course,
doesn't tell you when you call up and hire him.
He just shows up on set. -No, no.
"Do they run?" "Oh, yeah, they run.
They run."
-You -- There's a really great clip
of the stunt test on "Coffin Flops."
And the thing I really like is, it's very matter of fact.
You just hear, like, directors and stunt guys,
and they do a test, and a body -- a stuntman falls out,
and you just hear the director say,
"Oh, this is gonna be a funny sketch."
Like, you just have to see it once to know,
oh, this is really going to work.
-Yeah. I mean, it was a whole day in the cemetery
of stunt people flopping out of those things.
A whole day.
-You -- Another sketch I want to ask about --
There's an action-movie trailer.
And the action star -- Crashmore?
Detective Crashmore -- Am I saying that...
And then you find out he's being played by Santa Claus.
And Santa Claus as an actor who doesn't like
to talk about being Santa Claus.
I'm doing this a giant disservice
explaining it like this.
But I do want to stress how good that actor is.
And I've told you before, I obviously am happiest
when you are in the sketches, but this is a sketch
you're not in.
How happy were you when you found this guy to play Santa?
-So, I mean, yeah, he auditioned.
He was so fantastic, such a good actor.
His name is Biff Wiff.
He really did a really great job.
[ Laughter ]
-What is his name?
-Biff Wiff. I'm -- Yeah.
-No, I mean, I feel like he -- I mean --
-I feel like he had the job on the head shot at that point.
-Well, there's a lot of Santas out there.
-Well, that's true.
-There's a lot of Santas out there.
-When you're working off-season,
you're going to get a lot of Santas coming in.
-Yeah, there's a ton of Santas.
He wasn't the only person who auditioned
who looked like Santa, I'll tell you that.
-Really? -No!
There's a lot of people who look like Santa out there.
-I want to talk about how the show --
Now it's like a recurring theme over the course of two seasons
that hot dogs are sort of the --
I would say hot dogs and fedoras are the two images
I now think of the show.
The show has been very meme-able.
This is a sketch, from Season 1, a fantastic sketch,
about a hot-dog car crashing into a store
and then this gentleman trying to figure out who did it.
It's been used a lot, like, politically
whenever a politician sort of feigns sort of ignorance
as to how we got to this place.
Do you ever think about what a politician,
maybe an older politician, must think
when someone is putting this in their Twitter feed?
-I mean, yeah.
I think, in an article, I mentioned that,
you know, we had talked about it.
It was like, out of context,
that doesn't mean anything.
It must -- I've forgot what article.
I wish I could cite them.
We talked about like, "Well, if you see that,
you're just like, 'I have no clue what any of this is.
It doesn't make any sense.'"
-I just like, yeah, Mitch McConnell wondering like,
"What is this supposed to mean?"
-That's exactly who the article cited.
And it is like -- You would also have to be like --
'Cause it's not the first sketch.
You'd have to, like, go five episodes in to be like,
"Where does this come up?
That guy..."
-Hey, I also want to talk about the fact that you --
And I see this -- Anyone who follows you on Instagram
would know this about you.
You're an accomplished -- I hope that's a fair description --
an accomplished skateboarder.
That you've been doing this for a long time.
-I wouldn't say I'm accom-- I skate.
-Yeah. -I'm not that good.
But I quit for a long time
and just started back up in the past three years.
-And one of the other things that happened --
you have -- Is your son 10 now?
Is that how old he is? -Yeah, yeah.
Well, he's 11 now. He's about to turn 12.
-Okay. And he started skating, as well.
-Did he find it via you or did he find it on his own?
-He found it -- I mean, I was skating, and then he started.
But we live in -- You know,
we live in California, where, like, skating is huge.
So I think that almost every--
A lot of people start skating who live here, so...
-Does he think you're cool because you're a dad
who knows how to skate?
-No, not at all.
And, actually, anytime I show him a clip,
he's like, "You're going too slow.
You have to speed up.
It doesn't look good if you're going that slow."
-When you show him a clip of yourself?
-If I'm like, "Oh, look what I got,"
and he's like, "You got to get more speed."
-Do your kids -- You have a daughter, as well.
Penny? Buster and Penny? Is that right?
-That's right. Yep. -Do they watch the show?
Like, do they like -- Does that comedy of
"I Think You Can Leave" work for them?
-Well, it's "I Think You Should Leave," Seth.
You said "Could." -What is it?
-You said you were a fan! What is this?!
-Look, I'm sorry that you have like a five-word title
that if I -- A title so long that, like,
people write "I-T-Y-S-L."
-Okay, well, "Late Night with Seth Meyers."
-Oh, are we using names? Do names count?
Because then I'd like to add "with Tim Robinson."
-Oh, that's not my name. That's the title.
That's part of the title. That's not my name.
That's not talking about me.
-Dude -- That's not talking about you?
-No. That's just the name. That's not talking about me.
-Of course it's talking about you.
-It's not in reference to me.
-It's your -- -It's not!
-Alright. Do your kids watch it?
[ Laughter ]
-No, they don't.
-Good. Good!
I have no sympathy for you.
They're probably like, "The title is too long!"
-Yeah.
-Buddy, again, I've texted you so much about it.
It's so much fun.
It's everything I wanted the second season to be.
Congratulations to you and everybody who worked on it.
-Thank you so much. And I really appreciate it, pal.
I miss you. -I miss you, too.
I'll see you soon.
The second season of "I think You Should Leave"
is streaming globally on Netflix.