In the very first sketch of his cult hit comedy series, I Think You Should Leave , Tim Robinson plays a man faced with a problem so trivial it’s not really a problem at all: He pulls on a door that’s meant to be pushed. Rather than change course, however, he digs in his heels. He insists the door swings both ways. He tugs until he’s drooling from the exertion. He eventually breaks the hinge entirely. In trying to save himself the fleeting discomfort of admitting he was wrong, he humiliates himself in far more spectacular fashion.

That refusal to let anything go, ever, that tendency to double down to the point of self-destruction over the dumbest shit imaginable, is a central pillar of Robinson’s comic persona. In this summer’s Friendship , about a man who grows obsessed with his

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