Funny / The Eric Andre Show

Battlefield Earth should have been a Tyler Perry movie!

• The entirety of Eric’s interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette.
  Youtube Comment: I feel like i just watched two greek gods fighting
• Similarly, Eric's interview with Larry King, which flip flops between Eric giving coherent and reasonable responses and Eric testing Larry's patience. On the other hand, there's Larry being a professional and rolling with Eric's punches, though at several points, you can see that Larry is starting to tire of Eric's shit.
  Larry: What makes you angry?
  Eric: Larry King.
  [Larry gives out an exasperated sigh as Eric bursts into laughter]
  Larry [to someone off-camera]: I like that you book the intellectuals. Keep this up. Keep booking these professors.
• Arguably, every episode begins with one, where a fully-primal Eric utterly demolishes the entire set in different, creative ways... only for it to be replaced and look brand new in literally three seconds, with the implication that the crew have multiple sets on standby just because this happens so often.
  • The absolute best has to be when Eric has a wire hooked up to his back and proceeds to destroy the set like a rag doll.
  • And now, every single set destruction from Season 1 to Season 4.
• The Safety Stegosaurus segment, of which the undeniable highlight is Hannibal teaching a group of cheering children to say "I don't wanna die!"
• The 2012 New Year's Eve special ends abruptly when Eric discovers that all the crew members are Mayans, who proceed to sacrifice him on live TV to please their God. Eric then thanks all the celebrity guests as he's being cut open.
  • Eric, rather than being excited for New Years, is excited for two years...
    Eric: Two more years of Obama, baby, huh?
    (audience cheers)
    Hannibal: No! It's four years! It's four years, he's not gonna quit halfway through!
    (audience boos Hannibal)
    Hannibal: Why are you booing me, I'm right!
  • Both the Omorosa and Demi Lovato interviews, which seem as though neither of the individuals were warned about the nature of the show and seem to obliviously walk in expecting a standard late-night talk show. Even better, the Omorosa interview lasts so much longer than it needs to that she eventually just gets up and walks out amidst the chaos after about two full minutes of no interaction.
    Eric: (to Lovato, while eating a plate of spaghetti) You are my knight in shining armour...you are the wind beneath my wings...I think you're great...And I'm ready for some football.
  • Demi Lovato saying what the fuck at the end of their segment. At the time, they were still mostly known for their Disney related projects and had only recently transitioned into less kid-friendly roles. So to hear them use any type of profanity was as equally jarring as it was hilarious.
  • Then there's him describing Hannibal as looking like "Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in blackface."
  • Eric's Top Ten List of the "Top Ten Things of 2012"- numbers 10 and 9 are "desks" and "chairs", respectively; when Hannibal accuses him of just looking around and naming what he sees from where he's sitting, he makes him number 8 in an effort to shut him up, and then number 7 is just "desks" again. Then he just gives up on the list then and there, promising to continue the following day (which, being New Year's Eve, wouldn't exactly make much sense, as Hannibal points out.)
• Realizing the Season 2 finale is just Eric trashing the set for 11 minutes, Hannibal goes in the back and reads a newspaper.
  • At one point, Hannibal, clearly fed up, tells Eric point-blank to just start the show... where Eric pauses in his destruction to tell Hannibal he's busy, and to play a previous episode. Which he does... specifically, all of them at once.
  • When Eric runs around outside the studio during his rampage, he sucker punches the street correspondent.
• Eric goes out on the street and interviews people as "Spideric Andre", aka him wearing a special suit jacket that gives him four extra arms. The sight of him awkwardly fumbling around with his extra arms is a sight to behold.
  • The undeniable highlight of the whole bit is when Eric goes up to a random guy and asks him in a stereotypical old Jewish man voice, "Did you know they took Benedryl off the market?" The man angrily responds "Why would they take that off the market?" in complete seriousness without so much as a sideways glance at Eric's extra arms.
• Eric Balfour breaking down and delivering a vicious tirade on the poor interview conditions; causing a Single Tear and this statement.
  Andre: What's going on with you? What are you talking about? You sound insane.
• Russell Brand from the second episode of season 1, and all of his appearances after that.
• During the Amber Rose interview, the stage band's drummer helpfully interjects:
  Drummer: I SPEAK SPANISH! Hagarabaflagoablaoglalfblablah!
  • There's also the part where Eric reads off a "tweet" from Amber Rose.
    Eric: "Ching chong ching chong. Go back to your country."
    Rose: That's a fuckin' lie. I never said that!
    Eric: Why would you say something so controversial, yet so brave?
  • The funniest part is that she actually briefly dated him for a while after this interview.
• Chris Jericho's "interview". The moment that the poor man sits down in the chair, Hannibal starts stuffing pancakes into his mouth while screaming and sobbing. Eric then asks "So, how did you get your staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..." and starts convulsing with his eyes rolled back in his head for a full minute. Jericho just stares into the middle distance with an expression of total bafflement and doesn't say a word the entire time. The interview ends with Jericho falling through the set's floor.
• In the Krysten Ritter interview, Eric says that he has a clip of her new movie. The fact that she has no idea what he's talking about should be a sign. He then shows a clip of "2 Girls 1 Cup". Cue Krysten's horrified reaction, and Eric calling her "her own worst critic".
  Krysten: I have successfully avoided ever seeing that video for my 31 years on the planet until right this second. Thank you.
  • Hannibal awkwardly flirting with Krysten also qualifies.
    Krysten: Oh my god, the smell, dude. It's really bad.
    Hannibal (trying to be suave): Hey Krysten, I can take you to a place where it doesn't smell like this.
    Beat
    Krysten (restraining grin): I'm good.
    Hannibal (holding back laughter while looking at the camera): (mouths) Dammit!
• Eric asking Malaysia Pargo "Were you named after that flight that broke up over the Indian ocean? AKA, the world's toilet!" *awkwardly tries to high-five her* Immediately afterwards, Eric suddenly asking Pargo about her opinion of Dennis Rodman's ties to North Korea, which gets a blunt "I don't fuckin' know!" response from her. The audience applauds anyways.
  • In the same interview, Hannibal's Hot-Blooded Military Brat of a brother shows up and proceeds to badger both Hannibal and Pargo. Him merely coming on the set ends up startling Pargo. He's also trying his real best not to say the n-word.
    Hannibal's Brother: (shouting to Pargo) Damn! You look confused, boy! Are you ready to join the army, nigga?
    Malaysia Pargo: Nigga?
    Hannibal's Brother: (to himself) DAMMIT! Don't say the n-word. You know better... DAMMIT, WHAT THE FUCK AM I TALKING ABOUT?! WOO!
  • Hannibal's genuine Double Take at hearing Rodman state that he doesn't believe North Korea exists.
• "What do you think people did... before ladders? Were they, was it just like... 'Well, I can't fix that shit.'"
  • "Shit!"
  • "And then one day Thomas Ladder came along and was like, 'I got an idea for y'all fuck niggas!'" [Eric loses it]
• The segment where a middle-aged white man walks out onstage with his penis hanging out and claims to be Hannibal's father. What's even better is that Hannibal wasn't told about the bit beforehand and his reaction was totally unscripted. And then there's Nick Cannon's reaction, who's just left forgotten on the stage and is extremely uncomfortable throughout the whole thing.
  Hannibal: I'M INTERVIEWING NICK CANNON, FORMER... R. KELLY COLLABORATOR! AND STAGEHANDS LET YOU WALK IN HERE WITH YOUR DICK OUT!
  Hannibal's Father: Can I have a hug?
  Hannibal: FUCK YOU, DAD!
  Nick Cannon (contemplating firing his agent): (sucks teeth) Yyyyyyeaaaahhhhh...
• "Who killed Hannibal?"
• Lance Reddick sporting a VISOR and combadge while dressed as a slave, complete with chain wristcuffs while rapping "I wish I were LeVar Burton..."
  • This is of course after he just punched Eric's desk hard enough to leave a dent and left, scaring the crap out of both of them and making them think that he'd had enough and walked out on them. The best part is that the punch was unplanned and both Eric and Hannibal were legitimately startled by it.
  • From the same segment, Hannibal, normally the Straight Man, asks out of nowhere: "Is crabs more embarrassing than AIDS?"
  • "FUCK ALL Y'ALL! FUCK ALL Y'ALL! WARP-SPEED DON'T RAINBOW-READ ME NIGGA! AAAAAAAAA-!" We'll Be Right Back
  • And of course, in Season 5: "I wish I was Lance Reddick. I wish I was Lance Reddick! I WISH! I WAS! LANCE MOTHERFUCKING REDDIIIIICK!!!"
    And that completes the loop
• "So, everything is in the NEWWWWWWS, TODAY!" *stomps on a bunch of pedals*
• The entire Octopus segment is side-splittingly hilarious, but bonus points go to the man at the end, sitting at a table (apparently alone) while Eric and his "tentacles" surround the man while chanting "ARE YOU LONELY? ARE YOU LONELY?" Funnier still because if you look closely, the man clearly has a small smirk on his face at their ridiculous antics.
• Eric and Hannibal's "Support the Troops" discussion, along with their thoughts on the musical direction their band should be taking.
  • "Scat auto-tune" from the same segment.
• During the Black Scientologists sketch, another crazy guy on the street threatens to steal Eric's thunder by claiming to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Eric demands that he prove his godly powers by taking a poop in front of them, and then turning it into wine. The video then zooms in on L. Ron Hoyabembe followed by the caption:
  "Turn that poop into wine"
  -L. Ron Hoyabembe
• WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, PUNCHLINE
  • You did it! You broke comedy down to its bare essentials!
  • MAGIC, MAGIC, MAGIC, MAGIC, MAGIC, MAGIC, ATHEISM
  • By the end, so many subtitles keep coming up that Even the Subtitler Is Stumped. They end up randomly flashing between Eric's "Words" song and Penn's "Atheism" song, as well as Penn's name.
• Eric pauses one sketch to extensively insult Hannibal's appearance and taste in dress. Hannibal responds with an impassioned monologue about he doesn't mind Eric's insults, because his mom taught him to believe in himself and his brothers taught him to be strong, concluding the speech by saying "Also...you a bitch-ass nigga."
  • "Hey—"We'll Be Right Back
• "Time to deliver a pizza ball!"
  • "Pizza aside, let's talk Scientology."
• "Pretzels is the same."
• "Bird Up".
  • "WHOOOOOOO! I need to F**K EVERYONE in that room!"
• Tyler, the Creator's first act upon being in the show is to shove Eric's globe over and then the whole desk. He was sober, by the way. What sells it even more is the look on Eric Andre's face, like he just met a man who is just as insane as he is.
  • He then tears up at being told his "dad" is on the set, as sad piano music plays... and then we cut to Eric with his pants down farting on the desk. As one comment puts it.
  Eric ripping ass while Tyler is crying has some serious chaotic energy there.
  • The ending of the interview, in which a random balding fat guy runs on stage, grabs the mic from Eric and demands "Investigate 3-11!" before he and Eric start dancing. Tyler, after a few confused seconds, promptly joins in.
  • A good amount of the viewers and commenters pretty much point out how the whole interview seemed like Tyler was pretty much at home within the show.
  • A fairly overlooked bit as people may tell you is when Eric leans over on his desk, only for his head to bump an invisible wall that immediately vanishes when he sees if it's still there.
• The "Who Can Hold the Most Babies" is some of the most potent Cringe Comedy the show's ever had. Notably, Hannibal doesn't even bother with the bit, opting to keep to himself rather than disturb the children. Eventually, Eric gives up and completely breaks character, moaning "I hate this bit, I made a kid cry", with the whole segment ending on a "We'll Be Right Back" freeze frame of the child's crying face.
• Eric Andre interviews a bear. Yes, a bear. Eric's and Hannibal's reactions indicate that neither of them were expecting a live, unrestrained bear to walk out onto the stage.
  Eric: (Aside Glance) This is still safe, right...? (Hannibal shakes his head) I no longer am a fan of this bit...
  • And then there's the time he interviewed fire.
• The only thing funnier than Eric (once again) pulling out the photoshopped picture of a naked Barack Obama to show to Stacey Dash during her interview is Hannibal failing to suppress his laughter when Eric does so.
• Seth Rogen's interview. "I don't piss on my wife if that's what you're asking." (applause)
  • Eric decides to put Seth Rogen's actual (at the time) cell number on the screen so viewers can call him, despite Seth's refusals.
  • Hannibal flat out casually admits that sometimes when he's high, he thinks this show is a ploy for Eric to kill him.
• Jack Black is hooked up to a lie detector test and is shocked every time he says something, whether it's a lie or not.
• "Hannibal's going to Japan!"
• Asa Akira's interview, which gets interrupted when an estranged ex of Hannibal suddenly shows up to berate him loudly and humorously attack him, like ripping off her weave and smacking Hannibal with it. Hannibal himself looks like he wasn't expecting it one bit and is visibly Corpsing all the while. After the woman leaves, Akira, confused, asks Hannibal who the woman was.
  Hannibal: It was some bitch I fucked after I went to see A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington.
  Eric: (annoyed) Here we go again with this fucking story...
  • In the same interview, Eric offers Akira some dessert. Akira asks Eric if the dessert's laced with a date rape drug, which Eric replies yes. She eats it anyways.
  • Nothing can compare to the ending of the first segment of that interview: A random stagehand falls from the ceiling and lands on Eric's desk, much to Akira's horror. Hannibal then rips his shirt open and screams, freeze frame on "We'll be Right Back".
• "Fishing in the Seine". Every minute of it.
  Eric: Inglorious Basterds was right! I found Hitler's bones!
• Henry Rollins does a monologue about frozen yogurt.
  Henry Rollins: (screaming; as the band plays off-kilter music) WHY?! DO YOU LIE TO ME?!?
• Eric's visit to Harry's Car Place.
  Harry: I don't trust something like that.
• The entirety of the notorious Bird Up! episode, which derails into complete insanity, even for the show's standards, and becomes one of the most hilarious and surreal episodes of the entire series.
  • Not to be outdone, its Season 5 sequel, featuring Lizzo after she forcefully took over as host from Eric Andre alongside Macaulay Culkin.
  You're watching Bird Up!, Lizzo-Style! (doot doot doot doot!) Suck my dick!
• Maria Menounos is asked to pick a person. As shocked as she is that said person gets shot, she's more concerned that she knew this would happen.
• "This or That?", one of the few times where Eric is the victim of the insanity. Nonsensical questions are asked, and Eric is punished (mostly by hot coffee to the face) no matter what response he gives.
  Voice: (as Eric is given a milk jug) Eric, drink this milk, and tell us is it fresh or spoiled?
  Eric: (is force-fed milk; gags and spits it up) Definitely spoiled! (correct ding; hot coffee to the face; coffee pot smashed against head)
• Eric's interview with Harry Shum, Jr., where Eric introduces him as a cast member on "one of my least favourite shows, Glee!"
  • Hannibal explaining to Harry what he'd want his fatality to be if he was a Mortal Kombat character - killing the enemy by throwing apples at them, over and over and over. And then Hannibal demonstrates what it would look like. This goes on for nearly thirty seconds of screentime.
  • There may not be any sight gag in the show's entire history better than Eric jacking off to climax right in front of Harry while simultaneously reading Dianetics.
  Harry: Oh. Wow, that's really disturbing.
  Eric: (groaning) Don't look at me.
• "Chef" Rory Scovel shows us how to cook like a pro, gradually getting more and more depressed as the skit goes on until he begins Suddenly Shouting about the futility of existence and suffers a complete emotional breakdown on stage. Of note is T-Pain (barely intelligibly) singing the National Anthem near the end of Scovel's breakdown, and Andre commenting "can't wait to try that at home" when Scovel dumps the entire chef's table onto the floor and bursts into tears, collapsing in the midst of a full existential crisis. The skit ends with T-Pain abandoning the Anthem entirely and screaming, firing a gun into the ceiling as Scovel sobs on the floor.
  Rory Scovel: (visibly becoming more distraught) Now we're getting into a nice sizzle which is what everyone says is good, that means it is going to taste fucking amazing, THERE IS NO GOD! Once we fucking die, that's it! (smashes a cup on his hand) CHRIST! (he begins grinding the broken glass into his hand, screaming and bleeding profusely) GYAH YOU KNOW WHAT COOKING IS, ERIC? IT'S FUCKING PAIN! (audiences laughs, Rory begins grinding his injured hand into the ingredients) OH JESUS! Get that in there! (Rory smashes a jar on his forehead) Oh, look it's...stupid me...!
  (T-Pain begins singing as Scovel struggles to open a can)
  T-Pain: ♪Oh-ho say can you see... (Rory stares at the table, barely fighting back tears) ♪Byyyy the dawns early...li-hi-hi-ight...♪(Scovel breaks into full Angrish) ♪What so...proudly we ha-a-a-a-iled....♪ (Rory scatters uncooked pasta noodles and dumps the entire cooking table onto the floor)
  Eric: Yeah...yeah! Alright...
  T-Pain: ♪At the twilight's last...last...la-a-a-a-st...♪ (Scovel curls up on the floor and begins weeping)
  Eric: ...Can't wait to try that at home.
  T-Pain: ♪AAAAAAND THE ROCKETS-♪ (Rory sobs on the floor in anguish; T-Pain pulls a gun out and begins firing it into the ceiling) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
• Aubrey Peeples' interview. All of it.
  Eric: John Wayne once said 'I believe in a white supremacy until blacks are educated to a point of responsibility', why did you retweet that?
  Aubrey: I did not retweet that...
  Eric: Okay, well, it says it in my notes. (camera cuts to show that Eric's "notes" are just a massive wad of human hair stuck to the paper)
  • Right in the middle of a conversation, Eric suddenly announces it's time to play "Pick a Hot Chick's Briefcase", with three ladies with a briefcase showing up. Peeples is asked to pick a lady and picks Lady #2. Lady #2 pulls out a gun from her briefcase and shoots the other two women before being shot dead herself. The crowd starts chanting "Number 2" while Hannibal starts hollering maniacally. And then a random woman tackles a stagehand onto Eric's desk, which is immediately replaced by stagehands as if they had a warehouse full of desks for Eric to break. And all of this happens within mere seconds of each other. Afterwards, Hannibal just tries to continue the conversation with Peeples as if nothing happened.
  • Eric asks to sing a song with Peebles, then climbs on his desk right as Peebles notices that Eric is visibly pissing himself. To which the studio audience immediately applauds.
• Ariel Pink's performance! A Hurricane of Puns on Ariel Pink's name, which ends with him going crazy and tackling Eric's desk.
• George Clooney bursts out of Eric's desk, babbles incoherently for a few seconds, and rolls away.
  • Wiz Khalifa holds out his joint to George as a peace offering.
  "George Clooney": Rapper rap, woo woo woo. So, hip hop rap hippity hop hop hip hap roo rapitty roo ha hee hop...
  • Wiz genuinely laughs as George Clooney rolls away.
  • Moments later: "BRING THAT NAKED P.A. OUT HERE, NOW!!!"
• Eric's adventures at the Republican National Convention and Near the Democratic National Convention have to be seen to be believed.
  Eric: (manically; approaches an iron fence) Let me in! (grabs fence; begins flailing) LET ME IIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNN!
  • When Eric attempts to interview Alex Jones (using a mic stand the size of a flagpole), Alex incorrectly identifies him as ”the Daily Show guy” and tells the crowd gathered around him to bring on stage. What ensues is Alex asking Eric nonsensical questions still under the guise that he’s Trevor Noah, with Eric giving equally nonsensical answers.
  Eric: I want you to have sex with my wife.
  Alex: Oh so he’s trying to be shocking!
  Eric: No, not at all. I really... here’s my hotel key, I want you to have sex with my wife.
  Eric: Why does my...why does my pee-pee come out yellow?
  • It's worth mentioning that the second video is "Near the Democratic National Convention" because their presence at the RNC got their press passes revoked.
• Kraft Punk's entire character, a guy dressed in the same fashion of Daft Punk that does cheese-based "pranks" and talks with a text to speech program. Ironically, Eric and Hannibal despise him and think he's unfunny, despite the fact that his "pranks" are very similar to those that Eric does.

• 311 is finally investigated. Among the highlights are Nick Hexum getting waterboarded, Eric beating up S.A. and Tim Mahoney, and then T-Pain coming out, asking "WHAT ABOUT T-11?", maniacally laughing, and then following up with some Auto-Tuned mumbling, only for Eric to beat him up as well.
• Eric Andre's interview with Flavor Flav. A stagehand grabs Flav's junk, making him understandably upset and threatening to punch Eric in the face. Eric responds by casually tearing apart his desk to reveal a bathtub and getting naked for a soak. Then we get this exchange:
  Hannibal: This show sucks, man.
  Flavor Flav: Yeah, man. Fuck off.
  (Hannibal roundhouse kicks Flavor Flav in the face as the "We'll Be Right Back" freeze-frame appears)
• The Wheel of Prizes featuring Sinbad. Already at his wits' end by Eric's and Hannibal's antics, Sinbad is treated to a spinning prize wheel with...interesting prizes such as "Fun Times", "Big Bucks", "Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation", "Move to North Korea", and "Death". Around and around and around it goes...and around...and around...in fact, it just doesn't stop spinning, going on for so long that even Hannibal and Eric are exhausted^* Apparently, the wheel spun for 30 minutes straight., only stopping when Sinbad finally stands up and physically stops the wheel on "Move to North Korea" before sitting down with an expression that all but says, "What the fuck am I doing with my life?" As one Youtuber put it:
  I love how Sinbad starts out legitimately curious but each turn of the wheel drains more and more of his soul
• "There's no teams. No uniforms. Just a bunch of rappers. It's time for Rapper Warrior Ninja!"
  • As hinted at in the title, several rappers must cross a very low budget obstacle course while spitting bars. Danny Brown is up first:
    Danny: This beat is trash / oh my god I'm bout to bust my ass - (gets hit by swinging ball) oh, you bitch ass nigga, you done touched on me. You got me fucked up.
    • Danny getting whacked by a pugil stick in midair at the end of his turn and wiping out into the kiddie pool proves to be so hilarious that both Eric AND Hannibal completely lose it.
  • A$AP Rocky, Open Mike Eagle, Nocando, and Go Dreamer all follow with their own attempts:
    • Rocky gives up the freestyle almost immediately.
      Rocky: Shit, nigga, hold up / What the fuck is y'all / Niggas...fuckin... ay, how high am I, bruh bruh?
      Eric: Keep freestyling!
      Rocky: Fuck the freestyle, nigga! (gets hit by swinging ball) Oh! Now gimme - aw, fuck! Gimme something to defend myself with!
    • Mike manages to hold his composure.
      Open Mike Eagle: This seems stupid / Something I shouldn't've agreed to it / I'm on the plank, I can't move fast, I'm on chains - (gets hit by swinging ball) Ouch.
    • Nocando's microphone heavily distorts his voice, making his screams of pain that much funnier.
      Nocando: There's some dirty drawers / She make it clap, got a round of applause - (gets hit by swinging ball and falls into the mousetraps) OW, GODDAMMIT!
    • Go Dreamer's confidence doesn't help.
      Go Dreamer: I'm balling on your bitch ass - (gets hit by ball and drops microphone) / Don't know where I'm going but I feel like I'm trapping on your ass - (falls into mousetraps)
  • Season 5 brings forth even more installments following another legion of rappers on a higher-budget course, ranging from Jasper Dolphin to JPEGMafia to Freddie Gibbs (who immediately threatens to murder Eric).
• Much like the Aubrey Peeble interview Eric asks Mia Khalifa a blatantly false question.
  Eric: You're a staunch anti-masker.
  Mia: No I'm not.
  Eric: That's what it says in my notes. (camera cuts to show that Eric's "notes" are just two pieces of ham stuck to the paper)