"And then we're like, 'Oh no, we forgot someone!' It's part of the fun. "Sometimes they're like, 'Oh, you forgot someone!'" Middleditch told THR. In addition to helping the two comedians review everything they've done so far in the sketch, this fourth-wall-recapping gets the audience involved, according to the Silicon Valley actor. "If things are getting crazy with character counts or with what is happening in the show, either one of us as the character or one of us as us is going to be like, 'Hold on, let's recap.'" The two men do just this in their Law School sketch in Episode 2, when they portray an entire classroom of law students (and an alien, whose voice Schwartz pulls off with panache). "What I like about what Ben and I have allowed ourselves to do is just break the fourth wall whenever we want," Middleditch told The Hollywood Reporter. "Bounty hunting is a complicated profession."Īnd since it's just two of them acting out what often turns into a cast of characters (a whole wedding party, in one case), they often lose the thread of the story and forget character names, which the other typically points out, despite the fact that they're dropping the facade. "I'm sort of turning Werner Herzog now," Middleditch comments as his accent acquires a German lilt in Episode 2. consummate their relationship, make "doody" noises with their mouths, and call each other out on some of their less-than-accurate accents. They're so comfortable with each other, in fact, that during Middleditch & Schwartz, they act out gazelles about to.
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"We hugged, it clashed and turned into one full happy face," the Sonic the Hedgehog voice actor said. Schwartz told Vox jokingly that he was born with half of a smiley face amulet around his neck, and when he met Middleditch, he discovered the other half around his neck. According to Vox, the pair met in New York after doing comedy separately (Schwartz at UCB in New York and Middleditch in Chicago), and their senses of humor clicked. This comfortability only comes with practice. At one point, Schwartz relishes in predicting that he will beat his partner at Rock Paper Scissors (which he does, for the record). Throughout its three, hour-long episodes, the comedy duo break character to admit they can't remember specific details they'd nailed down just minutes prior.
This well-worn dynamic is perhaps what makes their Netflix improv comedy special, Middleditch & Schwartz, so successful. Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz have been performing together for 12 years.
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