All of Vic’s work is great, but he’s latched onto this way of editing these Jim Bakker videos that’s very surreal. It’s not a passive viewing experience—you’re kind of filled with terror and anxiety, but also you’re laughing and you don’t really know why you’re laughing. There’s just a rolling insanity that’s happening that’s really beautiful and special.

Eric: There’s a moment in there, Tim, that I’m sure got you, too, where the bald guy is eating his rations out of a bag, and it cuts back to Jim Bakker but you still hear him eating. Vic takes audio samples and loops them, so this guy is just chomping away during another scene.

Tim: He makes this juxtaposition where Jim Bakker is talking about the end of the world where this guy is chomping away, eating out of this bag like a horse. It’s a distortion of what the reality is, but it’s more accurate than the original clip.

All Gas, No Brakes

Eric: There’s this guy, Andrew Callaghan, who does a show called All Gas No Brakes. He has an Instagram and a YouTube account that he’s been doing for a couple years now. He’s only 22 years old. Tim and I are working with him to try to develop a show from what he does online. He goes around to all of these really bonkers conventions, like a gem and mineral-stone show or a border-patrol show, and he interviews them like a real person, and he gets the wildest characters. You get to see this insane cross-section of America. He’s pretty deadpan, which is not normal for the younger generation of comedians, to be quiet about it and let the characters kind of go crazy. It has a little bit of Eric Andre, a little bit of Nathan Fielder, but it’s a new generation.

It makes me feel a little calm nowadays, because everything is so wild. It’s so easy to get in your own head and get kind of personal about it, like, “I can’t believe this is happening to me, these struggles, these stresses, these weird things.” Then you watch his show and it’s just hundreds of different people that have their own wild adventures that are happening in their brain, whether they’re stable or not. It grounds me to be like, “Oh, yeah, everyone has a thing that they’re dealing with right now." It’s very funny, but it’s always comforting.

Good Morning Tri-State

Tim: Mark Proksch and Jason Woliner made this pilot a few years ago called Good Morning Tri-State. It never went to series. I don’t think it ever aired, but they put it up on Vimeo. It is one of the hardest laughs I’ve had in a long time. They basically made this local news show, like a local version of the Today Show. They structured it so Mark Proksch, this deadpan, Midwestern guy, was at the center, but they cast real news people to play all the other parts, and it’s sort of like this hidden camera kind of thing where no one is in on it except for Mark and the people making it. It’s insane. There are so many big, big moments, big jokes that they went for that pay off. And I also watch it going, “Of course this could not exist as a real show.” It would be hard to make another one because you’d start burning through people to be part of it. But it’s really funny, really special, and it’s online to watch for free.

Look Around You

Eric: Look Around You was originally a BBC show that aired on Adult Swim. These guys Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper do a lot of stuff in the U.K. They did this '70s science show. You really lose yourself in it. It’s shot really well, it’s really silly, but very dry. I’ve been finding myself watching that before I go to bed for something nice and mild.