![]() ![]() Like, when we first played Carnegie Hall because it was like such a milestone for us, so we just wanted the show to go well. The closest thing is maybe a little bit of anxiety. Middleditch: It’s just entirely exciting. How do you deal with the challenge of extending way out beyond a five-minute thing and keeping track of all these characters - I imagine fear plays into it at some point. Two-person, five-minute shows and then a little bit longer, then I moved to LA, and then he moved to LA, and we started doing it there and some people started coming, and then we started doing a 30-minute show. Schwartz: When Thomas came from Chicago, I saw him on stage and he was clearly so fucking good and so funny. ![]() Middleditch: Now listen up to me! I moved to New York from Chicago, and I didn’t have very many friends and Ben was kind enough to go get pizza with me! So we got some pizza, and we talked about doing some improv and then we did two-person improv at a night called School Night at UCB where we’d do like five or eight minutes, a real short set, and then we just kind of hit it off and then it was just something that we did here and there until I demanded that we start taking it more seriously. Middleditch: Yeah, that’s what people need, right? Schwartz: And the crazy thing is I started doing two-person improv with him and then he kept killing my pets and I was like, “Why?” And he goes, “Just to show you, I still have the power.” It was so fucked up, I respected him so much that I was like, “Let’s go on tour together.” Thomas Middleditch: I poisoned many of his pets and he said, “What’s it going to take for you to stop poisoning my pets?” And I said, “Do two-person improv with me.” So tell me a little bit about your background performing with each other.īen Schwartz: We were rivals for many years. Uproxx spoke with both recently about leaning on each other in a scene, the allure of longform improv, hitting the stage post-fear, and why they’re never going to be on Cameo. Middleditch and Schwartz is, quite frankly, like nothing else currently on Netflix (it’s available to stream now). Silly and inventive, the task at hand is grand with both posting up as a reliable scene partner for the other while jumping between multiple characters, carrying the thread of a story, and occasionally breaking the fourth wall to comment on what’s happening. The controlled chaos of an improv show gets expanded to a full hour in Middleditch and Schwartz, a Netflix special/collection of three distinct taped performances showcasing actors Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz’s command of a form that they’ve been practicing for years. ![]()
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