![]() ![]() Mouse Goes on a Fun Little Adventure to Happy Town (“Define ‘special mouse,’” Levick snaps repeatedly). They’re best known for their 2020 viral-video spoof “conservative lecturer DESTROYS sjw college student”: Levick plays a writer who pedantically eviscerates an audience question from Suresh about the moral compass of his book … called Mr. That kind of obsession with formal detail, but with one major screw loose, is Levick and Suresh’s trademark as a comedy duo. Spotify needs to deplatform these 3 dangerous men /9xDwgwobsQ- jeremy levick November 27, 2021 Instead of a visual gag, Office Hours’ punch line is conceptual the joke might be on you if you’re willing to listen to three weirdos talk for 12 hours about The Rock ruling the U.S. There’s a scene from Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s The Phantom of Liberty with a similar atmosphere: Characters attend a dinner party where toilets surround the table instead of chairs, but no one in the film views this as unusual. ![]() Even if everything resembles the real JRE, each flimsy metaphor makes it harder to ignore the void at the conversation’s center. As the three comedians nail the lethargic tone of the Experience, everything that they actually discuss is patently ridiculous, spun from smart-sounding but meaningless buzzwords - Levick says to Heidecker at one point, “I’m glad you said ‘countercurrent,’ because it’s a sea change” (whatever “it” is). In reality, the special loops an hour-long base video, but this feeling that they could go on forever makes the episode such a compelling (and funny) satire of Rogan. While digesting turkey or a meat alternative, you could drop into the eighth hour of the show and hear Suresh explaining that humans can be considered animals “on a cellular level.” This dull endlessness is the starting point for the Office Hours version: Heidecker, Levick, and Suresh’s stream lasted for nearly 12 hours, an amazing stunt to witness in real time. But this hangout vibe also means that many Joe Rogan Experience episodes clock in at three hours or more, which is a long time to listen to anyone shoot the shit. Though he’s booked interviewees as relatively innocuous as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jay Leno, Joe Rogan’s hands-off style draws in guests who like that he won’t push back on their résumés and responses, whether alt-right figureheads like Alex Jones or conspiracy-prone tech magnates like Musk, whose 2018 weed-toking appearance is invoked by Heidecker’s hat. If this reminds you of another podcast hosted by a certain UFC commentator and former Fear Factor host, you’re right. ![]() They found the horn 6/? /LDDJrwcGv8- Rajat Suresh November 27, 2021 Heidecker reads ad copy for Quad Core, a pyramid-scheme-seeming “lifestyle health system” that you can sign up for with the discount code “Fuddruckers,” which may draw your eye to a neon sign for the burger chain green-screened behind him. Elsewhere, Suresh describes an Unsolved Mysteries–level news story about the discovery of one of the devil’s horns, a topic that all three agree the New York Times would be too scared to pursue (“Follow the money,” Levick murmurs knowingly). ![]() Wearing a ball cap with the logo for Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Heidecker serves up stoner-friendly questions like, “How much can the brain absorb … when it comes to new information?”, and Levick replies simply by listing different parts of the brain in pulse-slowing monotone. In the special episode, Heidecker moderates a meandering marathon interview with comedians Jeremy Levick and Rajat Suresh. While half-checking your phone on Thanksgiving, you may have noticed that Tim Heidecker’s podcast Office Hours Live was on the air, but this was not an ordinary week for the talk show. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Tim Heidecker/YouTube ![]()
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