If you’ve watched the trailer for Season 2 you know it’s filled with an impressive roster of comedian cameos, much like Season 1 was, including Key and Peele’s Jordan Peele, Amy Poehler, Seth Rogen, Lizzy Caplan and Laura Dern, among so many others. The first episode got off to a bizarre and hilarious start with “Cake Train,” a sketch in which different women, including comedian Chelsea Peretti, drop everything when they hear the sound of a train approaching. They run frantically toward the tracks, rejoicing in the opportunity to get “caked” by Zach Galifianakis from the back of the train. In a post-screening discussion, Kroll revealed to curator Elvis Mitchell that that had been the single most expensive sketch of the season (adding a “thank you” to Comedy Central). The second episode kicked off with a very committed spoof of Canadian teen drama Degrassi called “Wheels Ontario” in which all high school students are on wheelchairs and Kroll plays a character very similar to professional Canadian hair flipper, Justin Bieber.
The good thing, Kroll joked, is that you don’t have to be a fan of intellectual comedy – a LA Woody Allen – to get Kroll’s sketches. You just have to love tuna fish.
