The Lonely Island Livens Up a Great Comedy Bang! Bang!

No matter how much time goes into scripting an episode of Comedy Bang! Bang! or perfecting a great idea, it’s hard to beat someone breaking on the show. In “The Lonely Island Wear Dark Pants and Eyeglasses,” there’s a segment that escalates in an incredibly fun way, with Scott teaching a class, which he wins over after ripping up that day’s test. Thinking it’s the ripping that is getting the class excited, he starts ripping up the student’s poems or girlfriend’s pictures or Bibles. The skit hilariously builds to discover that not only has Scott’s teacher also ripped up his sexual conduct policy right before ripping off a student’s shirt, he’s also just a sub. Not only that, he’s not actually the class’s sub, but instead a guy named Ripmaster Rick, who jumps out the window when the real substitute appears. It’s a wonderfully written bit with the kind of tone that Comedy Bang! Bang! has perfected over almost 100 episodes and yet it still can’t hold a candle to everyone breaking only a minute later.

“The Lonely Island Wear Dark Pants and Eyeglasses” combines three of the funniest current comedic elements into one show: Comedy Bang! Bang!, The Lonely Island and the show’s secret weapons, George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon, played by John Mulaney and Nick Kroll, respectively.

Once again, the written segments of “The Lonely Island…” are all winners. “Weird Al” gets a cyborg girlfriend named Beth whose highlight involves one of the most disgusting kisses ever filmed and The Lonely Island has some great moments on the couch, such as discussing how they fought their way back from hell after dying in their last appearance on the show and how R2-D2 was the original “Digital Short.”