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Hotel Art Thief Cuts Through the Slop
The Brooklyn sketch group is making the best comedy on the internet right now.
But in typical Hotel Art Thief fashion, the clip delves into much weirder territory with the introduction of a seductress who trades your winningsfor attention, then punishes your hedonism by putting your mother in a fortresslike “box.” The only way to rescue her is to win even more“conversation diamonds” by making even vaguer, more socially acceptable points. This Newsroom parody about writers at the Babylon Bee is a vast improvement over the group’s other attempt at a Sorkinesque sketch earlier in 2023, in which they made a sped-up West Wing episode about someone filling a toilet bowl with hot brown so hard the porcelain breaks. This sketch drops viewers directly into The Bear ’sworld — albeit an uncanny-valley, first-person video-game version in which the player is a new chef joining the ensemble — and heightens the show’s narrative stakes and character quirks just enough to illustrate its various plot contrivances, tonal inconsistencies, and melodramas.
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