time travel – The Comedy Bureau

Please Watch and Enjoy Teresa Lee Explaining How Tenet Makes Sense to Her

December 30, 2020

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If you’re one of the folks that chanced seeing, Tenet, one of the only major studio releases of the year at a drive-in (or an actual theater if there was limited capacity and enough social distancing and COVID-19 cases were low enough), you might have left the theater pondering what you just saw. Of Christopher Nolan’s filmography, Tenet does leave the most to be explained (that includes Interstellar by the way). Repeat watches of the movie might be hard because of lack of access or merely because you don’t want to budget three more hours to figure out the circuitous interpretation of time travel that Nolan created exclusively for Tenet.

Even after several months of it being out there (and even now being on streaming platforms), people still find Tenet hard to follow/grasp/understand.

Thus, this explanation of how the universe of Tenet makes sense by Teresa Lee is pretty damn fun. Lee hilariously insists that its version of time travel is how she makes sense of theoretical time travel and her journey in trying to communicate that is much more straight forward than Tenet itself and, as such, much more enjoyable.

i have made a little nutty video review of the movie tenet and i dare u to watch it, here is a lil clip: pic.twitter.com/hJtd5D8Fre

— Teresa "Geometric Storm Watch" Lee ?️‍? (@leresatee) December 28, 2020

Please Enjoy Hampton Yount’s Unaired Conspiracy Theory Comedy Pilot “Man of Truth”

October 8, 2020

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As film and TV production gets prolonged and paused and shut down, the quest for more content has led to unveiling and releasing of things that the general public would never get to see like unaired pilots, even if they were actually funny enough to warrant the public getting to see it and potentially pushing for more of it to be made.

Hampton Yount made one such pilot for SYFY called Man of Truth that put Yount position to investigate the most ridiculous conspiracy theories, but taking them as serious as any of the real ones like COINTELPRO or the Military Industrial Complex. The topic he deep dives into for the pilot if celebrity time travelers and his quest to get a hold of Matthew McConaughey is so worth a series green light by itself.

Go see the truth for yourself here.

Yep, Ilana Glazer and Paul W. Downs Do Travel Through Time via a Bong in “Time Traveling Bong” Trailer

April 7, 2016

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No one has figured out how to actually time travel, so why not imagine a world where you can do it through hitting a bong?

Luckily, Ilana Glazer, Paul W. Downs, and Lucia Aniello are bringing us all a mini-series event, Time Traveling Bong, that will show us all such a world.

This 4/20 special is so epic, it’ll air over three nights starting, of course, on 4/20 on Comedy Central.

Watch the trailer here.

Party Over Here Shows What Else You Can Do with Time Travel Besides Saving the World

April 5, 2016

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Most movies and TV shows want to stop some catastrophe from happening if they’re invoking the technology of time travel within their premise.

Party Over Here is here to show you that time travel can be used for other things that don’t have the fate of the planet hanging in the balance and are, honestly, more fun.

Dan Harmon Has an Existential Crisis When Meeting Ernest Hemingway on “Great Minds”

March 4, 2016

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The latest episode of Great Minds with Dan Harmon, part of History channel’s Night Class, has Dan unprepared on so many levels to meet revered writer Ernest Hemingway as played by Scott Adsit.

In fact, Dan questions himself a lot next to Hemingway, making for another great episode of this show. Watch it here.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Are Developing a Time Travel Comedy at Fox

October 21, 2015

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(via Deadline)

Anyone getting the feeling that any sort of announcement that is time travel themed was being held up for Back To The Future Day?

Now that Phil Lord and Chris Miller have got being the Last Man on Earth covered, Lord and Miller are on to potentially make the next great time travel comedy, which has kind of intrigued Hollywood both on the big and small screen since Back To The Future, over at Fox. For reference watch Midnight in Paris, Safety Not Guaranteed, possibly even Lord and Miller’s own Clone High.

Family Guy’s Julius Sharpe has written this project, In Time, which centers on the time travel adventures of friends trying to alter their present to their benefit.

There’s a put pilot commitment right now, but we hope this turns into a series order really soon.

Nate Bargatze Returned to “The Tonight Show”

April 22, 2015

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It’s no secret that Nate Bargatze is one of Fallon’s favorite comics and you can see why with every set he’s done on Late Night and The Tonight Show including this one from last night.

Bargatze returned to the stage adjacent to Fallon’s desk once more and gave us some insight about how he, and probably many more people if they were being honest, would fare as a time traveler.

Watch his set here and be sure to catch his hour stand-up special Full Time Magic on Comedy Central on May 2nd at midnight.

Yes, You Would Use a Time Machine To Prevent a Bad Relationship Like Elisha Yaffe

June 27, 2014

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If you were being honest with yourself and had the convenience of time travel, you’d probably be a bit selfish and go back to tell yourself to not date someone.

Just see Elisha Yaffe do exactly that in this great short directed by Bo Mirosseni, co-starring Stephanie Hunt and Craig Anton.

Uncle Mom Gives Probably the Most Disturbing, But Funny Answer to the Time Machine Question

August 21, 2013

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Official Comedy’s latest series of sketches is coming from great LA based group Uncle Mom.

In their first one, they give you the answer you probably don’t want to hear when asking “What would you do if you could time travel?”/the weirdest night of poker ever all for a really funny sketch.

Watch it here.

Reggie Watts’ Curiosity on Things Such as Time Travel Inspire His Music/Comedy

July 24, 2013

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For those interested in the mysteries of Reggie Watts and how the connective tissue of his performance comes about, watch the latest episode of Scott Moran’s Modern Comedian at PBS Digital. Watts’ curiosities on time travel, the feasibility, what period he would go to seeps into his subconscious and he’s figured out a way to make all work in his improvised performances.

Watch here.

Myq Kaplan Has The Best Time Travel to Kill Hitler Bit

June 4, 2013

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Whether it’s surprising to you or not, traveling back in time to stop Hitler is something is joked about quite a bit in comedy. However, this bit from Myq Kaplan on his Conan set from last night is the best we’ve ever heard.

Watch now.