#timmy williams

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The Elevator Game Friends

Speedpaint

[seamingleecomplex]

idk how to explain it but WKUK (specifically Trevor and Sam, and then Timmy if you're an ally), Nathan Fielder (any show) , and Tim Robinson (any show) are all Aut coded and by coded i mean im Autistic and this is how i feel

[neilpissyrega]

WKUK posting again

[incorrectfaithquotes]

tiffany: so never stop wishing timmy, and all your dreams will come true! timmy: even the scary ones? tiffany: hahahaha. 𝐲𝐞𝐬

[totesarchives]

Kids R' all white

The Whitest Kids U’ Know know what’s funny

By Jane Borden

Although stand-up comics focus on perfecting one strong 20-minute set, the key to becoming a respected sketch group—faced with an hour to fill and striving to build a recurring audience—is to never let the joke well run dry. Since last February, The Whitest Kids U’ Know have been prolific, debuting new, inventive material every Sunday night at Pianos on the Lower East Side, while amassing a loyal fan base and a library of more than 200 sketches.

When challenged with generating that many original bits, a group is bound to repeat some premises. “We write a lot about war… and robots,” Trevor Moore, 24, says. The performer is surprisingly subdued for someone who, in one of the group’s short films, is comfortable swinging a bat on a Queens street and screaming to a second-floor window with child-like excitement, “Hey Bill! Come on: Race War!”

The group formed in 2000 when Moore met Sam Brown at an open mike in the city. “I had a pen that I pretended was a rocket ship and I just flew it around on stage for a couple minutes,” he recalls. “I don’t think anybody liked it but Sam.” The two School of Visual Arts students soon hooked up with another, Zach Cregger (strikingly handsome, predictably pursuing an acting career) and the perpetually unclothed-on-stage Timmy Williams, a student at Brooklyn College at the time. Darren Trumeter, 25 and the last to join, went through a rite of passage, as Moore recalls. “At a party, he was talking about getting in the troupe and we said, ‘Punch Zach in the face.’ So he goes over, taps Zach on the shoulder and punches him. We were like, ‘Yeah, you should be in.’”

…AND NOTHING BUT THE SPOOF Timmy Williams, Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore, Sam Brown and Darren Trumeter, from left, in black and mostly white.

After WKUK had done stints on stages at SVA and in comedy clubs around town, Pianos’ owners approached them to fill the bar’s Sunday night spot. “The crowd we try to appeal to isn’t the kind who pay $25 and a drink minimum,” Cregger, 25, says. They are, however, the kind who linger, hanging out with one another and the troupe, and return week after week.

The back-room attitude of Pianos also allows the troupe to take risks. Before launching into an impossibly high-pitched, a cappella duet sparked by news of Spielberg’s new Tom Cruise vessel The War of the Worlds, Moore announces, “Sam and I wrote this an hour ago.” It was awkward, nonsensical, childish and the funniest part of the show.

In fact, their scenes work precisely because they’re so bizarre. WKUK doesn’t remind you of anything else: They’ve had no formal training, rarely see other sketch shows and don’t even name comedic influences. When Brown, 23, attempts to explain the inspiration behind “War of the Worlds,” he says, “Trevor was listening to ‘Godzilla’ by Blue Öyster Cult…” Then Moore finishes his sentence, “So I guess Blue Öyster Cult is one of our main influences.”

Of course, not every risk returns a reward. But even the scenes that last too long or wax too wordy have something interesting or funny at heart. Their writing always puts the joke front and center. They don’t use props and always play themselves. “We’re not good enough to remember different names,” Moore jokes. “We try not to do sketch sketch… where everyone comes out in matching suits and stuff.”

They just do a lot of sketch. “Even though we write so much about pirates,” Cregger admits, “we try to do each scene in a new way. There’s one where there are a bunch of pirates in the crowd being loud and Trevor is shushing them—the whole sketch is just him saying, ‘Pirates! Pirates, quiet!’” Moore interrupts with sarcasm, “But then we’ll write another one where we’re pirates attacking robots on the sun—so that’s different.”

Hopefully their off-center humor will reach a larger audience soon. The group’s television-pilot teaser is in the pitching process with a few networks. Seeing a fresh perspective like theirs on the air would be a triumph for any comedy fan, but especially for those who agree with their opinions on most TV routines. “Putting a celebrity in a wacky situation bores the shit out of me,” Cregger says. Moore adds, “And if I see one more scene about a gay priest…”

“We do plenty of gay jokes,” Cregger admits, “but at least we have a new angle on it.” “Right. Our gay robot sketch is hilarious,” Moore jokes. “Oh yeah—that’s the one with the pirates in it,” Brown shoots back.

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This article first appeared in Issue 493 of Time Out New York, an entertainment and events guide magazine. Whitest Kids U’ Know cofounder Trevor Moore credited the piece with boosting the sketch troupe’s popularity; following the article’s publication in March of 2005, “you couldn’t get into our shows,” he said. Time Out New York released its final print edition in 2020 and is now available exclusively online.

Text and image taken from Reddit.

[standupcomedyhistorian]

Hi, everyone! Happy Fourth of July weekend! 🎇

Since many Americans have a long holiday weekend (mine is 4 days off—woo-hoo!), I wanted to post something substantial for those looking for a good comedy read.

And what a read it is! In my longest interview yet, I chatted with Jordan Cooper, who has been providing fascinating archival materials on Reddit for fans of one of my favorite sketch comedy troupes—The Whitest Kids U' Know!

Jordan has known the five guys (Sam, Timmy, Darren, Zach, and Trevor) for more than two decades, and he is a fountain of knowledge on the aughts underground NYC comedy scene at such venues as Pianos and UCB. He's also seen or interacted with like every major comic, including Anthony Jeselnik, Maria Bamford, Kristen Schaal, and John Mulaney for starters.

Apart from his stint as the tech guy for WKUK shows, Jordan has had his own successful career in singing and songwriting AND he acts as a background extra in a number of TV shows and films. Plus, he has a fantastic deep-dive TMBG podcast. So freaking cool! 🤯

If you'd like to know more about his archives and his cameos, I HIGHLY recommend his recent Twitch stream with Timmy Williams on the WKUK channel—it's incredibly informative AND you can hear the audio of their riskiest live sketch where Timmy ended up nude onstage and had Darren fondle his genitals!

Enjoy the thorough interview, and keep it here for more comedy fun! ✌🏼

[itsblosseybitch]

The entire series of The Whitest Kids U’ Know is now streaming for free on Shout! TV

[thiziri]

Uncle Tim 🥰💕

[the-scooby-gang]

are there any non-canine/non domestic dogs Doos? Like one of the Doos looked at a bat or a fox and said this? this is MY baby.

There is! Here is some of the non Dog Doos:

Uncle Bolts (Spooky Doo’s robot duplicate) adopted Timmy Doo, the roomba;

Cousin Linguini kinda accidentally found his Doo in Remy, the rat, so there was no Doo adoption here;

Uncle Albert, by virtue of being Shaggy’s mom’s brother, is kinda of a honorary Rogers. He doesn’t have a familiar per say, but that didn’t stop the Doos from pack bonding with Robi, the robot butler;

Uncle William had Bonnie Doo, the yellow bunny, who was found by our beloved Great Dane extended family on the side of the road;

Cousin Magali has Mingau, the white cat. Mingau comes from a long line of cat Doos that went abroad with the Lima branch of the Rogers family;

Cousin Stu straight up had a tiny demon, Spawn Doo. Spawn was adopted by another non dog Doo, Harvest Doo, Stu’s sister’s, Leslie, black cat. (Harvest spent a whole week staring at the void behind the couch until one day she laughed at it and dragged Spawn out of it by the scruff of his neck).

There is great debate between the Rogers side and the Macher side of the family if Stu was like that because of Spawn’s influence or Stu being like that attracted Spawn to him but neither side can deny that both were made for each other.

Also you should know that Spawn, by virtue of being a demon, circumvented the “once together, always together” rule, where when the Rogers die (in this case, the Macher) his/her/their Doo follows. So Spawn remains vigilant at his human’s grave. When the family comes to check on Stu (to make sure he didn’t pull a Uncle William and attached his soul to the mortal realm so he could “always come back”) they bring some steak for him in his tiny stone house he made with some rocks nearby (they also renew the spells that stops him from trying to resurrect Stu with a blood sacrifice. Again.)

[intomore]

William Gottlieb, “Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y.” (1947),

Gelatin silver print,

Image courtesy Bank of America Collection.

[girly-media-studio]

Boys With Glasses

[ratlordsarah]

unhinged aah history dream I had last night

for some reason, in this dream, I was a 34 year old man living in Ancient Greece named Wallis with a jet black beard and some muscular aah legs, and I had a ginger haired brother named Cornelius (he looked like if amazing rope guy had a glow up)

and basically, I disowned Cornelius for being to annoying when I was 15 in the dream , and we were no longer on speaking terms for some reason, and we had the most Disney ending ever, it was like near the ending of encato where Bruno meets his ma again or something idk 💀

but we worked this job where we had to scavenger for wood planks and rocks in the city states Sparta, Athens, and Troy, in which the boss was a buff version of both Robert tubing from wordgirl and William dafoe 😭

half way through the dream, Tim, tj, and sally botford, as well as dr two brains, glen furlblam, Timmy timbo, the coach, and Chazz from word girl were in California as a meet up, to go visit Ancient Greece. As I am now in the pov of dr two brains, we travel to New Orleans from a magical flat escalator or something, and then we take a several day trip (walking on foot)to Canada , and on the way there, we had to share a single hotel room for some reason

after several days in the dream world, we make it to Canada, where there is a magical portal that takes us back to Ancient Greece, and we hop in.

as we are now in Ancient Greece, dr two brains sees Steven boxleitner, and they have one of those old western stand offs, accept apparently, d2b has schizophrenia in the dream, so you see both in dr two brain’s pov and Sally’s pov where dr two brains is saying “this town ain’t big enough for the both of us” in a southern accent, while gripping a revolver, talking to absolutely no one

anyways, two brains’s hallucination goes away, and he placed a magical box in the middle of Greece, that does nothing, and nothing happens, but anyone who hears about it or comes across it has to put in a passcode for no reason.

I am back into the pov of Wallis again, and I refuse to put in a passcode to see what happens, and dr two brains is screaming “AAAAAAHAGH THERE ARE RATS IN MY BRAIN AAAHAHAG” in which he is being dragged away like a toddler by sally, and Timmy timbo is only speaking Hebrew now, and he is striking up conversations at random Greek people in Hebrew. anyways, the travelers leave, and about 6 months pass by before the Romans take over, and we die for some reason. Also, the Roman’s were literally just a bunch of will woods marching in unison with the helmets and armor on (the Roman will wood army had a New Zealand accent for some reason)

I was so confused when I woke up, because I was genuinely convinced that I was this middle aged Greek guy that was getting conquered by the Romans for a solid 5 minutes 💀

[wan975]

Assortment of doodles pt 4

I saw those vector poses from the chaotix srb2 mod & I had to draw them

Ok honestly Francis is becoming more of my favorite characters due to how much I like drawing her design

I was never book smart, I'm money smart, makes me more intelligent

call her Mr Rock Festival, she got hella bands

I was fucking around & decide to digital color this

Beberietta won a poll in twitter so I drew them

She’s just helping him up & took him to the beach

[weclassybouquetfun]

There are a number of films releasing on Hanukkah / Christmas.

We have the Nicole Kidman/Harris Dickinson erotic drama BABYGIRL,

there's Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU, which is a faithful retelling of the 1922 film NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR. It's a stellar film that makes great use of its cast and makes vampires dark and scary again (but still a tad sexy, which..I don't know how that happened, but it did). A proper Gothic tale.

There's a September issue of Another Man magazine interview where Robert Eggers interviews Bill Skarsgård. I avoided it until I saw the movie in case it was spoilery, glad to be unshackled to read it because it offers fascinating insight on Skarsgard and how he got into character for the film.

If you don't mind spoilers, check out the feature (https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/15823/bill-skarsgard-interview-nosferatu-robert-eggers). If you are a spoiler-phobe like me, perhaps wait until you have had a visit with Count Orlock.

Also, out will be the Bob Dylan biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN starring Timothee Chalamet who has been having fun cosplaying as Dylan during this press run

but now with the release near, he gave us a throwback to L'il Timmy Tim.

OTHER CHRISTMAS / HANUKKAH/BOXING DAY/WEDNESDAY RELEASES.

Playing Dylan's girlfriend during that time Sylvie Russo (a reimagined Suze Rotolo) is Elle Fanning.

With dual press runs, NOSFERATU's Nicholas Hoult was able to interview his pal and his THE GREAT costar Fanning for Entertainment Weekly.

They are so cute trying to make their own little Barbenheimer.

It's just been a reunion-paloza for Nicky as he was interviewed by his ABOUT A BOY costar Hugh Grant, costarred in the solid JUROR #2 with his ABOUT A BOY costar Toni Colette and was interviewed by his friend and former SKINS costar Daniel Kaluuya for a screening of JUROR #2 and the excellent THE ORDER (which also stars his X:MEN FIRST CLASS costar Tye Sheridan) where he plays real life white nationalist Bob Matthews.

We also have the Robbie Williams biopic BETTER MAN, which is my favourite film of the year. An absolute stunner. If you don't know of Robbie Williams (British, former boybander), you will still love it. If you are put off by the fact that Robbie is portrayed as a chimp...WHERE IS YOUR SENSE OF ADVENTURE???

-A less splashy offering is the solid true story, inspirational sports film THE FIRE INSIDE starring Ryan Destiny and Brian Tyree Henry.

directed by BLACK PANTHER cinematographer Rachel Morrison, it's a look of the road boxer Claressa Shields took to get to Olympics glory, but it does a rare thing - shows after the fact and how hard it is to actually capitalize on that success, especially for women athletes.

[revvnant]

anyways william potentially sympathetic ( not to me but in a vacuum ) until you remember he wanted to kill kids sooo fucking bad he built the kid killer 9000 line and made a restaurant for them and was so intent on having those things give middle schoolers the slime tutorial experience they’re always talking about that he couldn’t Not have it in the same building as his daughter. like just absolutely bloodthirsty batshit at that point. it wasn’t just ‘animatronic convenient hiding place for corpses’ it was ‘i’m gonna invent the Baby Juicer concealed within the body of a big titted woman’ and then he went about it with gusto. obsessed with the absolutely rancid energy pouring off of him.

[blueberrycello]

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