You nerds are the reason Norton feels justified takes those deep inhales & pretentious lip smacks before arrogantly diving into his multilayered comedic processes. Fucking dork on here wrote three thicc ass paragraphs explaining why Chip 'worked' which could have just been summed up as "Chip evolved..."

Man, you're really pushing this "I totally hated Jimmy before everyone else did" like you were listening to the popular band on the radio when they were playing dingy dive bars. But I'll play along with the prompt for shits and giggles.

Chip was funny, the problem is Jim didn't realize how to adapt the character. You can't have the idiot character by himself. When there were 6 Friends, it worked, when dumbass Joey left to do a spinoff it failed. On That 70's Show, you needed the other characters around Kelso. Jim surrounded the Chip character with really weak side characters that don't play off the humor. Here's Club Soda Kenny doing a Club Soda Kenny voice. Here's my ex that I'm still in love with doing a hacky "badass bitch that always has the upper hand" telling Chip to stick his cock in a hornet's nest. Those are the two I remember from the Chip show, apart from "oh look it's Uncle Paul chasing a baby down the street ha ha".

The problem with Chip is he's supposed to be the problem. Interrupting the flow of the show, going to break on bad punchlines, making an interviewee uncomfortable. The pure manifestation of idiotic ID, saying whatever dumb thought pops into his mind. Like that show Wilfred a couple years back, with Elijah Wood and a guy in a dog suit named Wilfred. Wilfred causes the problem, Elijah spends the rest of the episode trying to fix it. The consequences don't matter to Wilfred because he's a dog who nobody will ever blame, similarly they don't matter to Chip because he's a buffoon. This really isn't advanced screenwriting, it's basic storytelling. Do you ever see Jerry bungle some sort of deal forcing Kramer to make everything right, or is Kramer the one typically creating problems and issues for Jerry?

I talked to him on the phone and told him all this, he didn't listen. Center the show around "straight man" comedian Jim, and have Chip be the brother or roommate or best friend or voice in the head or whatever whose idiotic blurtouts force Jim to have to scramble and pick up the pieces. Struggling stand-up comic in NYC who can't leave his rent-controlled apartment he shares with Chip & Uncle Paul - anyone of us could brainstorm 4 episodes going off that premise. He never heard of Wilfred and had nothing to base it on because it isn't porn. He cancelled the cartoon, pocketed the money, and once again failed to utilize the character properly by doing the podcast.