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Hobbit Office
SKETCH-O-VISION
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The setup
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The premise
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Back from saving Middle-earth, Bilbo (Martin Freeman) now sells paper over the phone for a firm run by Gandalf (Bobby Moynihan), a general manager who fancies himself a fun-loving entertainer. Through documentary-style interviews and fly-on-the-wall scenes, Bilbo sets Gollum's (Taran Killam) precious ring in jelly as a desk prank, Gandalf's tasteless joke about orcs lands badly with an orc colleague, and Bilbo quietly pines for receptionist Tauriel (Kate McKinnon), who is with Legolas (Kyle Mooney). After Gandalf shows off his moves at the office Christmas party, the walls are breached, giant spiders reach the parking lot, and the wizard makes a last stand among the desks.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 7
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
And I drive a Jetta.
Well, you don't choose the people you work with. Or go on a quest with.
And apparently, there's now giant spiders in the parking lot.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Host Martin Freeman played Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's Hobbit film trilogy and Tim Canterbury in the original British version of The Office, the part Bilbo echoes here.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Bilbo Baggins
What have I been up to? I went on a quest, saved Middle Earth, became a bit of a hero, did the noble thing and turned down loads of treasure. Yeah, so the brave hobbit Bilbo Baggins now works at a paper company, selling paper wings over the phone. And I drive a jetta
- 00:28
Gandalf
comes to me and says thank you gandalf general manager for this job i say okay you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk vis-a-vis aka for you to maybe one day end up here in the Yahtzee. Lord of the Reims.
- 01:13
Bilbo Baggins
Have you seen your room lately?
- 01:26
Gollum
No. What? Oh, ha ha, hilarious. Very funny. We're very amused. Oh, so lucky.
- 01:40
Bilbo Baggins
Ring in the jelly, yeah? Cranks?
- 01:42
Gollum
Are you gonna do something about this?
- 01:44
Bilbo Baggins
That wasn't me.
- 01:46
Gollum
Then who was it?
- 01:47
Bilbo Baggins
I have no idea.
- 01:47
Gollum
Oh, sure you don't. Don't touch it! Don't... Huh? Sexual?
- 01:55
Gandalf
More so than a boss, I'm more of a chilled-out entertainer. Slouch wizard.
- 02:03
Gandalf
You hear a joke? So, uh, why do orcs have such big penises? It's to deserve...
- 02:11
Orc
Oh, yeah. Stand up. Why do they have such big penises?
- 02:15
Gandalf
Ah, forgot it.
- 02:23
Orc
Racist.
- 02:30
Gandalf
Say that again.
- 02:31
Gollum
That's Gandalf! He's a funny boss! He's stupid and fat's precious.
- 02:44
Gollum
Hello?
- 02:45
Bilbo Baggins
We have a very important client to see you in the women's restroom.
- 02:50
That's Ed. He straightened his tie.
- 02:57
Bilbo Baggins
He straightened his tie.
- 02:58
Gandalf
And so that, sort of in the next couple of hours...
- 03:08
Yes, Ed.
- 03:14
Gollum
...was master trickses.
- 03:29
Dildo Baggins! Are
- 03:45
we done?
- 03:45
Right, right!
- 03:56
Bilbo Baggins
Well, you don't choose the people you work with, or go on a quest with. So when you have a connection with someone, that means something.
- 04:14
Speaker 1
I've breached the wall!
- 04:20
Bilbo Baggins
Giant spiders in the parking lot.
- 04:24
Bilbo Baggins
Great day.
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