![]() ![]() "We didn't really want to go down the route of having Chase be this little sh*thead pop star kid, because we like the fact that he's sweet, and we like the fact that the family stands by him," Schneider tells Bustle. And while the series incorporates many satirical music videos and catchy songs reminiscent of some of Schneider and Kelly's SNL days, The Other Two focuses on the Dubek family's strong bond and love for one another. The show feels simultaneously plugged into the zeitgeist ( Watch What Happens Live! The Today show! Kerry Washington!) and nostalgic (Flash mobs! Dabbing! Brokeback Mountain!) - partly thanks to Bieber himself, who helped inspire the comedy. The 22-minute show follows siblings Brooke (Heléne Yorke) and Cary (Drew Tarver) as they figure out adulthood while also dealing with their younger brother's newfound fame as a viral YouTube star-turned-Justin Bieber-pop star. (Which, by the way, has received rave reviews since it's premiere, even being called the best new sitcom of 2019 so far.) And what makes The Other Two so successful can be uniquely traced through Schneider's own comedy career.įirst, a quick primer on the premise of The Other Two. In 2017, she and Kelly left the late night comedy show for a new challenge: creating a cable TV show, Comedy Central's The Other Two. Schneider spent six years at SNL, where she and fellow writer Chris Kelly (who is also her current writing partner) were behind many of your favorite sketches: " The Beygency," " First Got Horny 2 U," and " Back Home Ballers," just to name a few. And for one of the sketch's writers, Sarah Schneider, it would launch her comedy style and career to new heights. And, it totally works.Īs the first SNL music video to feature the entire female cast, the sketch ushered in a new post-Lonely Island era for the show's digital shorts - but this time, the women were going viral (it currently has over 7 million views on YouTube). home to the ‘rents for the holidays and had to have sex in their childhood bedroom as an adult (JTT poster and all). ![]() What that something *else* is, turns out to be a cross between a sexy pop group music video and a moment of universality for anyone who’s brought an S.O. It seems like the beginning of a Hallmark ad - until you realize that the beat of the music is setting us all up for something else. The skit - nay, music video? - starts out with a wide shot of a house bedecked in holiday lights, followed by scenes from within: Grandparents laughing jovially by the tree, or seated on the couch. ![]() She had a pet iguana growing up that absolutely wreaked havoc on her life.If you were a Saturday Night Live fan back in 2013 - or, you know, were on the internet in any way, shape, or form - you probably remember "(Do It On My) Twin Bed." I'm being advertised these things like, if you are gay you are happy and you should wear these shirts that will make you happy! All of the cast members felt like they were living out these unreal fantasies of how they could have been represented, these funhouse mirrors of who they really are." The sketch also features a hysterical Kate McKinnon as a character who regrets owning an iguana. Sketch comedy about queer people is funny to the people who wrote it, but it's to me how my own identity is misrepresented and sold back to me. A lot of what you see is like, if you are gay then you are happy! There's not a lot of complexity in that. It's sort of scary because there is still so little queer media out there and the few examples you do see are presented in a sanitized way. Now that I'm an adult, it's sort of a bizarre thing to look back at the way the marketing of queer people has tipped. "I grew up with the It Gets Better Campaign. ![]()
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