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The Treatment

Sam Richardson & Tim Robinson: Detroiters

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Comedians Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson join Elvis to discuss holding strong to their roots in Comedy Central's Detroiters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.6

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. If you want to see what the real Detroit

0:18.1

looks like and not Four Brothers, which is sort of kind of Detroit, or these places where Detroit is full of junkies.

0:23.6

In fact, in the first episode, in the pilot episode of the great new show, Detroit is in Comedy Central.

0:28.2

There's a shot in a little park near the Ambassador Bridge.

0:30.9

It's always been one of my favorite places to go.

0:33.3

And I'm glad this shot's in there. And also it has something in the show we should have seen years ago, the scene of a crime with a better made potato chips bag in it.

0:41.1

The stars and creators of this show, Sam Richardson and Tim with ambitions is that it's got why I think

0:55.4

was being like a sort of chin tilted up added to him.

0:57.8

These guys are just incredible optimists.

1:00.8

And was that always the conception of the show for you guys?

1:03.8

Yeah.

1:04.2

Well, the conception of the show was that we wanted to show our real life friendship because Tim and I are honest and good, best friends.

1:11.2

Yeah.

1:11.5

And we wanted to show the city.

1:12.8

Did you mean Second City?

1:13.7

Because you told me that's where you were.

1:14.7

We met at Second City in Detroit.

1:16.2

Yeah.

1:16.6

Yeah.

1:16.8

Yeah.

1:17.1

Yeah.

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