The Chair Company

We always walk away from a Tim Robinson show feeling significantly more disturbed than when we walked in. He's built an entire career out of people reacting to minor inconveniences like they've uncovered Watergate. It's hilarious, uncomfortable, and often physically painful to watch. The Chair Company might be the purest expression of that idea yet.

Ron Trosper (Robinson) is a project manager having the best week of his career when his office chair collapses during an important presentation. Most people would be embarrassed, buy a new chair, and move on. Ron decides somebody needs to answer for this. And we get it — we've all had a customer-service call that made us briefly consider federal prison. The difference is most people eventually calm down. Ron doesn't.

What starts as a customer complaint mutates into a full-blown conspiracy involving empty warehouses, a guy hiding in his closet, bar fights, companies that may not exist, and at least one giant blue ball nobody can adequately explain. Every time the show seems ready to reveal what's actually happening, it introduces something even stranger. It plays like Curb Your Enthusiasm rewritten as a paranoid thriller, and the less sense any of it makes, the funnier it gets.

Look, Tim Robinson is one of those comedians who splits a room clean in half — you either think he's one of the funniest people alive, or you can't make it past one grown man chewing out another for blowing bubbles, doing the Cha Cha with Doris, and "treating the workplace like a grab-ass factory."

The Chair Company is absolutely someone's version of hell. But if you're already a believer, this is a cringe spectacle you don't want to miss.