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Chapo Trap House

285 Teaser - Sorkin and Sullivan

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Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

The climax of the second episode, what do they come up with?

0:04.0

I swear to Christ.

0:06.8

It is a parody of a Gilbert and Sullivan musical number.

0:10.8

You have to be 80 years old to think that that is cool.

0:15.6

They do a parody of fucking HMS Pinnefort where the whole cast comes out and sings like,

0:20.8

we are the very model of a network TV show and we step in this August and Blessed Studio.

0:26.8

They're all wearing tuxedos and evening gowns and there's a fucking Philharmonic

0:33.2

and the opera singers behind them. I probably cost $500,000.

0:37.0

And like the edgy part is that they reference that Bradley Whitford's character did cocaine.

0:42.0

They're like, and our producers doing blow, doing blow.

0:45.4

And the audience is dying.

0:49.2

We have the captions on it. It says applause, whooping.

0:53.2

I will say this, you know, for that scene and for all the sketches we actually see,

0:59.0

Aaron Sorkin would be like the John Schwartzwolder of the nation of Germany.

1:03.6

If he just wrote comedy sketches like that, they'd be like, this is the funniest shit that we've ever seen.

1:08.4

You've got to go to a non-cumure comedy.

1:10.4

Yeah. Go to like, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and do that, shit.

1:14.0

They will, you're a god, dude.

1:16.4

One of those nations where everyone is 90 years old, no matter what time you're born.

1:22.2

Yeah.

1:22.8

Everyone's 90 years old and it's nighttime for half of the year.

1:27.0

Yeah.

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