His performance as the brain slug infecting a pilot in A Starstruck Odyssey was incredible. He started with single guttural syllables and eventually graduated to “Give me that” in like episode 6
@@wildoranges well comedy is subject, you might find something funny that I won't and that's alright. Personally I find him quite funny and that's ok, you don't half to there's plenty to love and laugh at in this show so I hope you find some fun in it!
'I need you to lock it in a little bit' I absolutely died. I am kaput and Zac did it Also Zac broke Brennan hard just saying 'Yeah' in this. What a master
His improv style is always so understated, subtle, and terse and that makes it funnier. He just needs 1 to 3 deadpan words between someone's elocution. I could write an essay about his improv, but that would be weird.
He pairs well with anyone, which is a great talent to have in any kind of performance art (which is really what these public D&D sessions are). He can just as easily be as crazy as Brennan's character and get a laugh, but he knows when to be the straight man and can still get a laugh.
Obviously Zac is hilarious in this but man, Brennan is killing it as an old man unraveling at the end of his life. Im genuinely concerned for Raphanial despite him being a scheming bastard
The Brennan/Zac comedy dynamic never ceases to hit: Brennan is willing to say or do anything to follow a genre or tone, but Zac just casually reminds us all that we are still in a society.
Brennan takes us on an insane, fantastical adventure to a time and place we’ve never been! -then Zac reminds us that we could still like, die, or something 😂
Man Zac is great. He easily could’ve acted concerned as Colin but instead he just has this calm “you know we’ve got things to do” energy that’s so good as Raphael is unraveling into Gollum.
Zac Oyama is the master of understatement. Brennan makes jokes out of large bombastic statements, but only Zac can make comedy by simply saying ". . . yeah".
I think the biggest break from Brennan was because Zac undermined his expected tropes. Zac normally has a minimalist approach to comedy, which is already the opposite of Brennan with monologues and give-and-take improve. But when Zac said “so.. you want to stay here, right?” It’s going against the D&D premise of the party needing to be together, and against improve’s famous “yes and” agreeing/accepting what the other person is saying and adding to it.
Hey! Just wanna point out this doesn't actually break the yes and principle. The yes and principle is mostly just about not sandbagging the scene from progressing. Even though Zac isn't following Brennan's energy, he's still following up his prompts in a way that furthers the scene. And having two characters with mismatched energy is classic comedy!
I want a back to back of Colin reacting to the radish and cheese smoothie with Brennan as Golden Goose from Neverafter reacting to Ylfa saying three blind mice was her favorite story. “…y…yeah…”
I love how Anjali over the course of this minicampaign became the honorary president of Zac Oyama Fanclub. Her reactions to him, frequently just falling into the frame laughing when the camera's at Zac, are priceless. ❤
Brennan has a mastery of comedy that is well-honed, trained over a long lifetime of roleplay and improv. Zac, on the other hand, has a comedic gift from the hand of god himself that seems to come oh so naturally with little to no effort. Brennan crafts masterpieces, lexical tapestries in which each singular word represents both a fraction and a whole of comedic genius. Zac simply opens his mouth and spills forth little miracles of humor, each with the divine power to bust your entire gut in inexplicably perfect ways. Two equally funny dudes with TOTALLY different vibes, who work so fucking well together lmao (In all seriousness I'm sure Zac is also a professionally trained improv comedian and puts a lot of effort into his humor, he's just got a more minimalistic vibe to his comedy that contrasts Brennan insane ability to just string incredible words together like a comedic freestyle poet)
Zac is just a naturally funny dude, but also has talent for improv with a scene like imagining he's holding and interacting with objects. For all the times Brennan's messed with his characters, Zac's way of interacting with Brennan's was to always just assume they were way too much for him and just be like "bro, chill" lol
It's genuinely impressive how, in just a few short hours, each episode can make you bust out laughing in one moment and then almost perfectly transition to the most serious, heart wrenching war drama you have ever seen, and do so without losing its viewers or even making it seem completely tone breaking. These players and the writers of this world have my full respect, i love them so much
I feel like the type of comedy people have gotten used to through mainstream film and tv is the “hey this is clearly a joke and should be funny haha” and “look at this hyperbole, and funny movements, it’s funny right?” But there is nothing better than the comedy of the character/actor being an ordinary person going through a comical situation (situational comedy). As Bryan Cranston said “if the character realises something is funny, it takes the onus off the audience to laugh”, there’s almost more comedy in the audience subconsciously thinking of the absurdity of the scene when there is a calm and reasonable person trying to manage the chaotic and comedic nature of what they are witnessing/experiencing. Like a person who is good at their job trying to maintain sanity while working with someone who has no idea what the hell they are doing. Sorry for the long description, I’m a Media teacher and I’m very passionate about depictions of comedy, especially as a short film I made is that exact type of comedy 😂
“if the character realises something is funny, it takes the onus off the audience to laugh” reminds me of "Dr Strangelove" and how it carries it's comedy completely in the absurdity evident to the viewer because the movie internally takes itself very seriously.
I think this pretty much explains why I don't like what's most commonly thought of as "funny". I don't like stuff that "tells" me to laugh. I like things that the more I think about it the more funny it gets, or something that goes over the brink of "okay?" to actually causing laughter once the right context is in place.
Rafaniel and Colin was the pairing I didn't know I needed until it happened. This little radish( was he a radish or an onion) man was just becoming more and more unhinged, and Colin could not care less.
The big Brennan monologue followed by a quick Zac short answer never fails to hit. The lawyer followed by Zac’s “I did it, yeah” is such a good example
I love Zac and he's funny. I mean everyone else is laughing, but I think Brennan just loves Zac. We already know that, but oh my, is he getting deeper and deeper.
I love that to Colin the smoothie comment must sound like Raphaniel saying 'what do you think our baby would look like?' 😂 Alternatively 'what if someone crushed us and mixed our bodies together, wouldn't that be cool?'
I just realized that Kristen has fully taken on that Raphaniel energy in this new season of Fantasy high "hey girlie~" and "sweet boy~" + weird hands 🤣
He had a podcast for a bit called the Rotating Heroes Podcast and he DM’d I only listened to the first campaign because naddpod feed dropped the episodes but he was great!
A big credit to Matt for being so consistent in his language for a setting he didn’t make. He killed it as dm this season. I’m admittedly not huge on critical role, I prefer dimension 20’s more focussed approach to storytelling. But Matt really shines here in that format
Zac is like a comedy assassin. He's quiet, he's not particularly flashy, but when he strikes he's freaking deadly lol
He's such a good comedic straight man. Honestly, his style really reminds me of the comedian Bob Newheart sometimes.
His performance as the brain slug infecting a pilot in A Starstruck Odyssey was incredible. He started with single guttural syllables and eventually graduated to “Give me that” in like episode 6
he's great at just being a straight man to Brennan's insanity.
I wish I found him funny. He's never made me laugh. I wish I could enjoy his comedy but it just falls flat for me.
@@wildoranges well comedy is subject, you might find something funny that I won't and that's alright. Personally I find him quite funny and that's ok, you don't half to there's plenty to love and laugh at in this show so I hope you find some fun in it!
Raphaniel: *mentally crumbling*
Colin: ok grandpa let’s get you to bed
Senile old man and the one remaining Grandson reluctantly taking care of him is not the dynamic I was expecting but I love it.
"Yes he's acting crazy, but he does it every a day, and i'm telling You, is just something he does" energy
Colin's energy towards Raphaniel just being like "You've gotta take it down a notch man" is so funny
"I need you to lock it in just a little bit."
'I need you to lock it in a little bit' I absolutely died. I am kaput and Zac did it
Also Zac broke Brennan hard just saying 'Yeah' in this. What a master
‘Woah dude’
@@SirQuack-mi9szI saw one reply and knew what it was.
Exactly what one of my theater teachers told us once. One of the most important for bland lines to be comedic is timing and tone
It’s such a realistic reply to somebody who’s acting insane. Everybody’s said it or thought it to somebody like that before.
@@SirQuack-mi9sz"WHOA DUDE!" - Sam
Brennan bringing a certain Muhubler to this campaign and Zac bringing a certain "we don't have time for ALL this" back to him
Citizen Priest
is the we don't have time for ALL this a zac quote from somewhere I'm losing it
@@user-xb5bz4fu9o John Mulany
@@gingerluigiwithnomoustache7411 thank you so much I could not remember where it was from for the life of me
never underestimate the comedy king that is Zac Oyama, he's easy to overlook but he never misses
I killed him, yea 😐
His improv style is always so understated, subtle, and terse and that makes it funnier. He just needs 1 to 3 deadpan words between someone's elocution. I could write an essay about his improv, but that would be weird.
@@nefariousyawnWrite it 👀
@@MsCunningLinguistic *quietly whispering in your ear as your defense lawyer* "wtf are you doing!?"
He pairs well with anyone, which is a great talent to have in any kind of performance art (which is really what these public D&D sessions are). He can just as easily be as crazy as Brennan's character and get a laugh, but he knows when to be the straight man and can still get a laugh.
Zac “I killed that guy, yeah.” Oyama. The guy is a master of one-liners.
Obviously Zac is hilarious in this but man, Brennan is killing it as an old man unraveling at the end of his life. Im genuinely concerned for Raphanial despite him being a scheming bastard
Fr 😅
Raphanial and Dr Abraham Mehermblur are two of my favourite Brennan PCs, he plays unhinged little old men so well 🤣
The Brennan/Zac comedy dynamic never ceases to hit: Brennan is willing to say or do anything to follow a genre or tone, but Zac just casually reminds us all that we are still in a society.
Brennan takes us on an insane, fantastical adventure to a time and place we’ve never been! -then Zac reminds us that we could still like, die, or something 😂
Perfectly said exactly
Man Zac is great. He easily could’ve acted concerned as Colin but instead he just has this calm “you know we’ve got things to do” energy that’s so good as Raphael is unraveling into Gollum.
"Eat a snack or something, you're okay" I can't tell if he's saying that to Raphaniel or to Brennan himself 😂
Most likely both. Lol
Brennan "needs almonds to survive" Lee Mulligan
@@daalimbe"ALMONDS ALL THE TIME!"
@@daalimbe Literally the only situation in which Zac Oyama being behind him with a shovel isn't ominous as fuck
Brennan needs to play a character with a furnace on his back to shovel snacks into
"We need you to lock it in a little bit, it's just the worst time possible"
Absolutely dying 😂
Zac Oyama is the master of understatement. Brennan makes jokes out of large bombastic statements, but only Zac can make comedy by simply saying ". . . yeah".
Barry responding “right on” to Skip entering the room gesturing to his body and shrugging walked so “we need you to lock it in a little bit” could run
God, is that the reason these two are my favorites in RW? Because it's just early Skip and Barry energy?
I think the biggest break from Brennan was because Zac undermined his expected tropes. Zac normally has a minimalist approach to comedy, which is already the opposite of Brennan with monologues and give-and-take improve. But when Zac said “so.. you want to stay here, right?” It’s going against the D&D premise of the party needing to be together, and against improve’s famous “yes and” agreeing/accepting what the other person is saying and adding to it.
Hey! Just wanna point out this doesn't actually break the yes and principle. The yes and principle is mostly just about not sandbagging the scene from progressing. Even though Zac isn't following Brennan's energy, he's still following up his prompts in a way that furthers the scene. And having two characters with mismatched energy is classic comedy!
The silent sleeper agents of comedy: “no, and” and “no, but”
"IT'S POINTLESS! IT'S HERACY< THE FOOLS!"
"Let's use our inside voices, huh?"
Zac's comedy is so unique. It's like a fantastic mix between playing the straight man and complete absurdity.
It's very 'stoner guy' like being a bit too comfortable with bizarre things happening
@@bravetherainbow like Tony Shalhoub's character Fred Kwan in Galaxy Quest.
@@phoebegilliland8897 hahaha yes
I want a back to back of Colin reacting to the radish and cheese smoothie with Brennan as Golden Goose from Neverafter reacting to Ylfa saying three blind mice was her favorite story.
“…y…yeah…”
"Three Blind Mice-"
"Thats the one?!"
Raphaniel is Abraham Merhermblur turned up to twelve, and Colin is Exhausted, & that's the kind of comedy this dark prequel needs tbh.
You can see the "yes, and..." cogs accelerating before that soft 'yeah'. Comedy sniper, hits every time
I think Zac's "What?" at 1:12 is honestly the best part. It feels SO real, the perfect mix of annoyance and confusion.
Zac has Brennan out here acting like Jimmy Fallon when he was on SNL
I see Brennan's "Hitting on Zac in every D20 season" streak is still going strong.
honestly Zannan is the D20 power couple i need. sorry emily/murph 🤣🤣🤣
I love Colin’s entire arc with Riphaneal is basically “Just watch over Grandpa and make sure he doesn’t hurt himself.”
provolone really regretting not putting radish peepaw in a home
Zac Oyama, king of the perfect UA-cam Short, does the most with the least
I love how Anjali over the course of this minicampaign became the honorary president of Zac Oyama Fanclub. Her reactions to him, frequently just falling into the frame laughing when the camera's at Zac, are priceless. ❤
Brennan has a mastery of comedy that is well-honed, trained over a long lifetime of roleplay and improv. Zac, on the other hand, has a comedic gift from the hand of god himself that seems to come oh so naturally with little to no effort. Brennan crafts masterpieces, lexical tapestries in which each singular word represents both a fraction and a whole of comedic genius. Zac simply opens his mouth and spills forth little miracles of humor, each with the divine power to bust your entire gut in inexplicably perfect ways.
Two equally funny dudes with TOTALLY different vibes, who work so fucking well together lmao
(In all seriousness I'm sure Zac is also a professionally trained improv comedian and puts a lot of effort into his humor, he's just got a more minimalistic vibe to his comedy that contrasts Brennan insane ability to just string incredible words together like a comedic freestyle poet)
...Yeah...
“lexical tapestries” 🤩😍🤤😋💯🌟
He’s a perfect straight man.
Are you saying that Brennan is a comedic wizard and Zac is a comedic sorcerer?
@@JCGoodwinDrums That's exactly the correct conclusion to draw, yes.
The sheer tired retail worker energy zac has as Colin is incredible
“…not with the shaky hand towards the face 😐”
Zac is just a naturally funny dude, but also has talent for improv with a scene like imagining he's holding and interacting with objects. For all the times Brennan's messed with his characters, Zac's way of interacting with Brennan's was to always just assume they were way too much for him and just be like "bro, chill" lol
I have a mighty need for a compilation of Zac and Lou being Brennan's comedy kryptonite.
I keep saying this, Colin Provolone is the closest a Zac Oyama character has ever come to just being Zac Oyama.
It's genuinely impressive how, in just a few short hours, each episode can make you bust out laughing in one moment and then almost perfectly transition to the most serious, heart wrenching war drama you have ever seen, and do so without losing its viewers or even making it seem completely tone breaking.
These players and the writers of this world have my full respect, i love them so much
Good boy. Sweet boy. Come on, Provolone
Zac's range should never be underestimated. He makes cavalier and casual characters just as entertaining as Takamori saying "DESCEND BABYYYY~"
Fill 'er up.
Zacs deadpan delivery has been absolutely fantastic in everything, enjoy it everytime
This was amazing. Every interaction these players have either breaks my heart or busts my gut with laughter. Either way it's great ^.^
‘Please not with the shaky hand towards the face’
Even in "Make Some Noise" Zac is just the one hit KO on his delivery.
Gilear made that smoothie
Zac has fully mastered delivering the perfect line at the perfect time
I really feel like Zac has a direct line to Brennan’s funny bone. Seems like Zac cracks him up the most. 😂
“….we need you to lock it in…just a little bit here”
Matt is so correct at the end of this too. I cannot WAIT for DeepBlueInk to take on this campaign. 😂
Starstruck Odyssey is where I truely learned just how hilarious Zac was. And I just have such an appreciation for his different style of delivery.
Ah, my favourite genre
2:39 his fkn reaction there gets me every time! Just a perfection summation of his annoyance then he pulls it together
Zac's totally calm response to an outrageous character is hilarious
We can argue who the funniest D20 members are, but no one does more by doing less than Zach, master of understated comedy.
i just know someone made a cheese and raddish smoothie bc of them 💀
Zac and Brennan's interactions have the air of an I Think You Should Leave sketch
The only thing funnier then a man going crazy is a man going up to the crazy man saying, "Hey man...stop that."
Zac is just a menace to improv in the best way possible! Absolute legend in character breaking!
I feel like the type of comedy people have gotten used to through mainstream film and tv is the “hey this is clearly a joke and should be funny haha” and “look at this hyperbole, and funny movements, it’s funny right?” But there is nothing better than the comedy of the character/actor being an ordinary person going through a comical situation (situational comedy). As Bryan Cranston said “if the character realises something is funny, it takes the onus off the audience to laugh”, there’s almost more comedy in the audience subconsciously thinking of the absurdity of the scene when there is a calm and reasonable person trying to manage the chaotic and comedic nature of what they are witnessing/experiencing. Like a person who is good at their job trying to maintain sanity while working with someone who has no idea what the hell they are doing.
Sorry for the long description, I’m a Media teacher and I’m very passionate about depictions of comedy, especially as a short film I made is that exact type of comedy 😂
hi yes no yes excellent more of this share your passion its a very interesting read thank you
“if the character realises something is funny, it takes the onus off the audience to laugh” reminds me of "Dr Strangelove" and how it carries it's comedy completely in the absurdity evident to the viewer because the movie internally takes itself very seriously.
It would never have been anywhere near as funny with a laugh track
comedy works best when the characters take their reality very seriously 💯😁
I think this pretty much explains why I don't like what's most commonly thought of as "funny". I don't like stuff that "tells" me to laugh. I like things that the more I think about it the more funny it gets, or something that goes over the brink of "okay?" to actually causing laughter once the right context is in place.
The sequel to “Where’s your bulb now?”
THANK YOU for splicing this together, comedy gold
is this the 1st time zac & brennan have been players in the same game?? can't think of another instance. explains why brennan just wasn't ready.
Brennan’s one weakness is him doing something an insane person would do, and then someone responding in the most human way imaginable.
I always perceived Brennan as unbreakable, just based on his personality and competitive nature
I mean, even cowgirls get the blues.
Zac playing the straight man type is always so hard to not laugh at, just a completely normal dude in the crazy story that’s going on around him
These two are the real power couple tbh…
That scene is the reason I'm going to start watching D20, I swear
2:31 💀 I...
Rafaniel and Colin was the pairing I didn't know I needed until it happened. This little radish( was he a radish or an onion) man was just becoming more and more unhinged, and Colin could not care less.
Gods, The Ravening War was so fucking *good*.
Love these clips! Would be great to see one of the Amethar and Rococoa cameo in The Ravening War (Episode 4).
Here you go. Enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/TRRRj-NAG2Q/v-deo.html
The big Brennan monologue followed by a quick Zac short answer never fails to hit. The lawyer followed by Zac’s “I did it, yeah” is such a good example
That little interaction at 3:44, he's so humble but he's not wrong!
I've lost count of how many times I've watched this and it slays me every time.
I love how they compliment each other. Brennan say how great Zac and then Zac immediately shifts the compliment back to Brennan
I love Zac and he's funny. I mean everyone else is laughing, but I think Brennan just loves Zac. We already know that, but oh my, is he getting deeper and deeper.
I love that to Colin the smoothie comment must sound like Raphaniel saying 'what do you think our baby would look like?' 😂 Alternatively 'what if someone crushed us and mixed our bodies together, wouldn't that be cool?'
The delivery on that "Yeah..." was absolutely flawless 😂
an all time classic d20 moment this is why i love this fucking show
Zac is killing the entire table here.
I feel like Zac goes through life with the innate understanding of the funniest possible response to every situation
There’s ugly crying, and then there’s ugly laughing. Zac makes me ugly laugh.
If zac was in the first game changer survivor, it would’ve been over for Brennan from the start
Zac "less is more" oyama, the improv slayer.
Brennan's crazy and Zac's straight-man acts work so well together!!
Would truly watch hours of Raphaniel talking to Provolone. 👏 perf
You know, I feel bad that Raphaniel has pretty much deteriorated to this point.
Zack is the best straight man. 😅
Zac is a deadpan king.
I just realized that Kristen has fully taken on that Raphaniel energy in this new season of Fantasy high "hey girlie~" and "sweet boy~" + weird hands 🤣
If Colin was genuinely nice and lived in his own sort of glittery "Saturday morning cartoon" haze...he'd be Ricky Matsui
Any time these two are in a room together you know it's gonna be a good time
Holy shit this campaign was so good, as was the Adventuring Party for it.
Those boys got a serious case of the giggles!
UA-cam doing something with the framerate? Looks super choppy like 12fps.
I've never seen a single line make Matt react like that lol
I wonder what Zac would be like as a GM?
Understated and amazing.
He had a podcast for a bit called the Rotating Heroes Podcast and he DM’d I only listened to the first campaign because naddpod feed dropped the episodes but he was great!
Zac is a master of delivery
“Colin, I need you to tell me I can the tent at anytime!” -Raphaniel probably
"I can *leave* the tent". You had one job.
all these squares make a circle
Bless you my corn child
Sir Collin is just like... every Millennial's avatar in a world of talking meats and cheeses.
A big credit to Matt for being so consistent in his language for a setting he didn’t make. He killed it as dm this season. I’m admittedly not huge on critical role, I prefer dimension 20’s more focussed approach to storytelling. But Matt really shines here in that format
I can see Citizen Doctor Abraham Muhubler leaking into Raphaniel more and more every episode