Fifty-three seconds into Season 2 of I Think You Should Leave (ITYSL), Tim Robinson—the show’s star and co-creator, alongside Zach Kanin—is sitting around a boardroom table, trying to discreetly suck a jumbo hot dog out of his jacket sleeve. It only gets weirder from there.
But in today’s reality—two billionaires are racing each other to space on their private rockets, one in five Americans refuse to get life-saving vaccines against a virus that has killed more than half a million of their countrymen, a game show host just wrapped up a stint as president—humor that fails to stretch absurdity to its breaking point doesn’t much move the needle.
Declan Garvey is the publisher of The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2019, he worked in public affairs at Hamilton Place Strategies and market research at Echelon Insights. When Declan is not assigning and editing pieces, he is probably watching a Cubs game, listening to podcasts on 3x speed, or trying a new recipe with his wife.
