Unbelievable Timing

What I love about this sketch is that you can sense the punchline before you know exactly what it will be. Good comedy, much like good teaching, isn’t wholly bound up in surprise, but in confirming what we already suspect.

And yet, this video also follows the rule of three, and the way Robert Webb says the line on the third turn acknowledges both that the audience and the characters he’s talking to know that it’s coming.

All in all, a stunningly good two minute story.