Sketch ideas from the edge of sense.
Two In The Think Tank follows Andy and Alistair as they chase five sketch ideas through songs, semantic detours, and gleefully broken logic. The comedy lives in the moment when a throwaway phrase becomes a sport, a custom, a premise, or a small absurd system.
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Two In The Think Tank is a long-running absurdist comedy show built around a simple promise: Andy and Alistair come up with sketch ideas. The simplicity is part of the trap. A normal sentence rarely stays normal for more than a few seconds before a sound-alike phrase, a bad definition, or a tiny point of logic drags it somewhere impractical. The pair can start with a song, a hat plug, a greeting, or a question about a word, then build an entire system around whatever falls out. It is fast. It is messy in a deliberate way. The pleasure comes from hearing two performers treat very stupid premises as if they deserve serious design attention. Soccer may be secretly about socks. The letter E may be literary background radiation. A person who believes and then leaves may become a traveler through deities. Vertical gardens may need grazing sheep. CPR may become an intellectual property problem. Even the throwaway business around episode titles, listener nicknames, emails, and hats gets folded back into the comic machine. The show is especially good at semantic loopholes, where a phrase is pushed until it creates a new institution, invention, ritual, or workplace problem. It is also comfortable with grotesque bodily setups, but the engine is usually language and escalation rather than shock alone. Andy and Alistair often pause to capture a phrase because the show treats naming as a kind of comedy fuel. A half-formed title can be enough to keep the conversation moving. The result feels like an open notebook with the pages being filled too quickly, full of sketches that are less finished products than visible acts of comic engineering. It suits people who like sketch comedy before it hardens into sketches, where the stumble, the correction, and the argument are all part of the joke. The show rewards patience for chaos. It does not hold the listener's hand, but it keeps throwing out doors.
Made for: Best for comedy listeners who like rapid improvised banter, absurd premises, wordplay, and jokes that keep mutating. It suits fans of sketch ideas in their raw, chaotic, pre-polished form.
What sets it apart: The show turns the process of finding sketch ideas into the main event. Its edge is the way Andy and Alistair build tiny rules, titles, cultures, products, and arguments around whatever phrase has just misfired.
Listen as Andy and Al come up with five sketch ideas, without fail. Maybe seven if we don't think that the first five were very good. Follow us on twitter! Al - @alasdairtb Andy - @stupidoldandy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Andy and Alistair build stray words into elaborate sketch premises, preserving every correction and comic wrong turn along the way.
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A CPR rhythm becomes a Bee Gees lawsuit before you can ask how either got there.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A fast-moving riff show where hats, CPR, and a Bee Gees joke keep mutating into sketch ideas.
The episode keeps turning small prompts into bigger nonsense: an A-listener hat becomes a sun-protection gag, then the banter wanders through nicknames, slogans, CPR etiquette, and a Bee Gees lawsuit fantasy.
Two hosts turn one strange premise into a fast-moving chain of sketch ideas.
Two in the Think Tank keeps a strange setup moving at speed. Andy and Alistair steer it from free will into bodily absurdity, then into a movie pitch and a borrowed ancestry angle, with each turn feeding the next.
A hat pitch, a word puzzle, and a spider-sheep plan that keeps escalating.
The episode starts with an A-listener hat pitch and soon drifts into a running joke about "good morrow," which Andy and Alistair keep teasing as next or morning while the meaning keeps sliding.
Loose banter turns a full-name apology into sketch ideas that keep finding new uses.
A full-name introduction becomes an apology catchphrase, then a route into dating, culture, and surnames. That sets the episode's working style: a tiny wording problem is taken seriously until it bends into a sketch.
A pocket bit tumbles into trousers, socks, and a sideways argument about how to punch.
Andy and Alistair build a loose comic run from sound, body, and phrase logic: deep in the pocket becomes a hole in the pocket, then trousers, a leg, a sock, a wind sock, and, eventually, a wind leg warmer.
A mountain drive turns a rooster contest into crooked sketch fuel.
Two In The Think Tank turns a drive through Australia's Monaro region into a relaxed comedy workshop, with Andy and Alistair recording near Cooma as they move through the Great Dividing Range. The setting does more than frame the episode.
Fake radio, real commitment to nonsense.
Small troubles, expertly inflated.
Remakes judged fast, funny, and fairly.
Writing talk with rant energy.
Radio-style chaos with a dry grin.
Call logic trapped in a safety hole.
Andy and Al brainstorm five sketch ideas in this episode of Two In The Think Tank.
Can altitude count as a co-host?
The hosts of Two in the Think Tank discuss their road trip through Alpine regions near Wodonga while bantering about geography and family visits as they prepare to generate sketch ideas.
This episode is a comedic podcast where the hosts engage in playful banter, discuss sketch ideas, and humorously explore topics like following through on farts.
["Two In The Think Tank episode 521, \"Boiled Sandwich,\" turns Andy and Alistair's sketch session into a chain of premises about commentators, body fat, toilets, and lunch.", "They build bits around an \"open mouth billionaire,\" Andrew Tate hosting \"the motherhood brotherhood,\" and a man who hates \"big bites of cheese\" enough to become a lab experiment.", "The middle runs through \"bad bidet,\" waxy single-sheet toilet paper, and a salt-air fantasy for fish and other sea creatures.", "The closing idea is a boiled sandwich shop that drops assembled fillings into boiling water and treats the result as a new cuisine."]
Two hosts engage in comedic improvisation and wordplay about socks, soccer, and FIFA, while introducing their sketch comedy show.
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Two comedians humorously explore a fictional language where every word uses only the letter E, satirizing literary gimmicks and creative writing challenges.
They open by hawking an A-listener hat and instantly puncturing the glamour of it.
Andy and Alistair open with the usual promise of five sketch ideas and immediately wander into identity confusion, free will, and the sort of stubborn argument only this show can sustain.
It starts with hats.
Two in the Think Tank episode 513, "HORIZONTAL CONVERTIBLE," turns a five-sketch format into a long chain of name jokes, device metaphors, and absurd objects.
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Andy and Alistair introduce an Alpine edition of their sketch comedy podcast while driving through Australia's mountains, teasing their upcoming 500th episode and joking about audio quality.