The Chair Company Is a Rich Text for Tim Robinson Sickos

"On I Think You Should Leave, his breakout sketch show with creative partner Zach Kanin, it's hard not to notice how certain motifs recur across its comedy of unease like intrusive thoughts: peculiar elderly individuals, bursts of yelling, the refusal to take blame, idiosyncratic clothing, denials of reality, and drab corporate workplaces - all of which, the last in particular, were prototyped in the sitcom Detroiters, the pair's first TV collaboration (alongside co-creators Sam Richardson and Joe Kelly)."

"Robinson plays Ron Trosper, a newly promoted corporate drone at shopping-mall-development firm Fisher Robay. (Motto: Integrating Mother Nature With Centers of Commerce.) His misadventure begins, as so many of Robinson's sketches do, with a humiliation. After delivering his version of a rousing speech at a companywide presentation for a new project in Canton, Ohio, Ron suffers a modest embarrassment in front of his colleagues and his boss, Jeff (Lou Diamond Phillips)."

Tim Robinson frequently plays men consumed by petty fixations and compelled to take things too far. Recurring motifs include peculiar elderly individuals, bursts of yelling, refusal to accept blame, idiosyncratic clothing, denials of reality, and drab corporate workplaces. Those motifs were prototyped in Detroiters and recur across I Think You Should Leave and the film Friendship, where a devoted family man pretends at normalcy as it slips away. The Chair Company stars Robinson as Ron Trosper, a newly promoted corporate drone at Fisher Robay, whose office humiliation triggers a downward spiral and continued unraveling of composure.

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