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That's, like, a two-minute YouTube sketch at best
Five minutes. But your point stands.
Nice.
Dropout TV more:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5TpY7ZjmFro
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHYS9Tt5bM
You're not wrong, but what was posted here was a "joke," and it would have been weakened by making it unnecessarily realistic.
No fewer than 23 people were like "Yeah, no, Gary. There's no way you could stretch that out into 100 minutes."
I want to listen to your 10-minute TedTalk about how explaining jokes or taking them too seriously makes them not funny anymore
I could see it working well as a I think you should leave bit
I still think there's more there, but it would ruin the "straight" purge movies