American comedians/absurd performance art on Twitch?

October 29, 2020 8:22 AM

I've been watching a lot of Twitch content in recent months, and have found quite a number of fun, interesting UK-based comedy/performance art channels that I've enjoyed. But where are the American versions of this?

For example, I really like UK-based streamers Robbotron and Zafarcakes in particular, and watch a little of Iain Lee sometimes at night. I'm pretty sure these guys, among others, are stage performers/standups/Edinburgh Fringe types, and are doing fringe-y type stuff on Twitch (Robbotron does a stream on Sundays where he pretends to be your Divorced Australian Dad cooking you lunch - funny, interactive and ridiculous at the same time).

For American comedians, I've found Thomas Middleditch and I know Taran Killam and Sarah Silverman stream sometimes, but I'm really looking for more interesting and new-to-me content from Americans.

Who would you recommend? Doesn't at all have to be a well-known person, and I don't care if they're playing games or just chatting.

posted by GamblingBlues to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Not sure it's perfectly on point but have you seen Tim Robinson's "I Think You Should Leave" on Netflix? It's a sketch show rather than a talking head edit, but it has an absurdist edge that you don't see often in the US.
posted by rhizome at 12:13 PM on October 29, 2020

Maybe try The George Lucas Talk Show? It used to be an in-person show at the UCB in New York, but they’ve been doing weekly live streams for months now. The premise is that retired film maker George Lucas and Watto have a late night talk show. There are guests (Taran Killam was on last week actually!) and bits and it’s definitely absurd. They also do watch a longs of random TV shows and bring in a lot of people who worked on the show. There are some other comedy shows on their channel too, but I haven’t watched any others.
posted by wsquared at 10:33 PM on October 29, 2020 [1 favorite]