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Fargo has an absurdist streak a mile wide and a sense of cosmic comeuppance that suggests the strings are being pulled by a mischievous trickster-god with a mean streak.
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Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The Naked Gun is a return to being the sort of absurdist comedy that simply does not get made anymore, and somehow, Liam Neeson, of all people, turns out to be the perfect man to lead it after making the same Taken variant action movies for most of the last ten years.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Again, you are reminded that Schaffer is partially responsible for the group’s absurdist SNL digital shorts and 100-percent the guy who made Hot Rod.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
Perhaps beginning with the popularity of the short-form-video app Vine, in the twenty-tens, the mundane or absurdist details of the physical world became fodder in real time for the best online content.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 23 July 2025
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Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The Naked Gun is a return to being the sort of absurdist comedy that simply does not get made anymore, and somehow, Liam Neeson, of all people, turns out to be the perfect man to lead it after making the same Taken variant action movies for most of the last ten years.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Again, you are reminded that Schaffer is partially responsible for the group’s absurdist SNL digital shorts and 100-percent the guy who made Hot Rod.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
Perhaps beginning with the popularity of the short-form-video app Vine, in the twenty-tens, the mundane or absurdist details of the physical world became fodder in real time for the best online content.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 23 July 2025
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“Absurdist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absurdist. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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