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Blazer
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Presented as retro television opening credits, Detective Don Blazer races through alleys, a pool hall, an interrogation and a family home. His pursuit montage keeps returning to the same pattern: he punches Black men while passing over a white man.
The footage turns out to be his own online compilation of a partner’s body-camera recordings. His chief dismisses him, then treats the encounter as a fond farewell. A second replay puts the chief before the commissioner, who removes him for laughing off discriminatory violence. The film closes with Blazer’s failed rooftop leap.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 10
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I only beat up black guys?
Because I made light of race-based police brutality?
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Zach Kanin
Writer
Tim Robinson
Writer
Michael Che
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The final rooftop fall was accidental. Taran Killam later described the mishap during his Late Night with Seth Meyers interview.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:06
Speaker 1
Detective Don Blazer always gets his man. He plays by his own rules. He's cool. He's Blazer. It's the job done. Laning up the streets, one thug at a time.
- 00:42
Detective Blazer
Are you ready to talk?
- 00:48
Interrogation suspect
About what?
- 00:51
Speaker 1
Unstoppable. He's not afraid to get his hands dirty. Justice has a new name.
- 01:27
Chief Reynolds
So, you see why I got to fire you, right, Blazer?
- 01:30
Detective Blazer
Because I only beat up black guys?
- 01:32
Chief Reynolds
Yeah, because you only beat up black guys.
- 01:34
Detective Blazer
Because my partner filmed everything with his body cam?
- 01:37
Chief Reynolds
Yeah.
- 01:38
Detective Blazer
Also because I edited it all together and added music and put it up on YouTube?
- 01:44
Chief Reynolds
Uh-huh, yeah. All that.
- 01:48
Detective Blazer
Well, had a good run while it lasted, didn't we, Chief?
- 01:51
Chief Reynolds
We sure did. We sure did.
- 02:00
Police Commissioner
so you see why you can't be police chief anymore
- 02:03
Chief Reynolds
because in the light of race-based police brutality
- 02:05
Police Commissioner
yeah
- 02:05
Speaker 2
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