Schwartz also reflects that his partner makes him look good: “It’s like jumping off from something and being freed up. I know whatever I’ll do, even if it’s truly bat-shit he will be able to make sense of it, contextualize it and weave it into the narrative. Middleditch says that “Ben is an incredible problem solver and he’s a good story breaker. The comedic duo have been working together for years. We kept the audience excited for seven minutes without moving.’” SEE Ben Schwartz Interview: ‘Space Force’ There’s no props, Thomas is on a chair and I sit down next to him. In one scene from the special, it’s just two people talking. You can’t really cut a big chunk with us because it’s a story. In a stand-up special if you don’t like a joke you can cut it out. Schwartz admits, “It is very weird to watch yourself improvise. There’s that shared celebration when it happens.” They were there when it happened to begin with. There’s that fun thing if they forget about something and we bring it back later on. Anything that happens is stored in our minds and the audience’s minds at exactly the same time.
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When you are watching a TV show the audience is learning something that the actor already knows. We are finding out everything at exactly the same time. Schwartz explains that the magic of improv is that “the audience does not know more than me. SEE Thomas Middleditch Interview: ‘Silicon Valley’ The three episodes rise to absurdist heights ranging from a ghost officiating a parking lot wedding to an alien crashing a contract law lecture. In these specials, the duo turns a conversation with an audience member into a fifty-minute story. “Middleditch and Schwartz” are three comedy specials that use the comedic art of long form improv. It was frustrating that improv always feels like a cabaret act where you pay five dollars, see it and who cares if it’s good or bad.” Click on the videos above to watch our separate interviews with both Middleditch (“Silicon Valley”) and Ben Schwartz (“Space Force”). You can also send us feedback directly.“There was a lot of pressure going in,” explains Thomas Middleditch about the Neflix comedy specials “Middleditch and Schwartz.” He continues, “It felt like failing was going to be detrimental to it being tried in the future. If you like the show, please let us know by leaving a review on Apple. You can listen to our review in the player below, subscribe using Apple Podcasts or find us in your podcast player of choice.
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But our doubts were quickly demolished as we watched the mind-bogglingly talented Thomas Middleditch (“Silicon Valley”) and Ben Schwartz (“Parks & Recreation”) spin up dizzyingly complex plots based on just a few prompts from the audience, bringing to life dozens of characters and tying everything together into a big comedic climax right as their time is runs out.Īnd sometimes, the show is even better when things don’t go smoothly - when they’re forced to backpedal out of a narrative dead end, or when they struggle to remember the names of the character they’re playing at a given moment, or the accent they should be using.īefore we get to our review, we also discuss our thoughts on the current battle between NBCUniversal and big movie theater chains, over the studio’s decision to release “Trolls World Tour” directly to video-on-demand and potentially to follow suit with other films. So we had some reservations going into “Middleditch & Schwartz” on Netflix, which consists of three hourlong improv specials. And our friends aside, live improv has rarely been translated successfully into an on-screen show or special. It’s just that we’ve seen it done less well, often by friends who are so enthusiastic without being particularly funny.
Of course, we can enjoy improv when it’s done well. We’ll admit it: Some of your Original Content podcast hosts are a little skeptical about improvised comedy.
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