Alyssa Learns to Drive
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Maegan Houang
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Two friends stab each other to test new knives, then need to reach a hospital. The only person available to drive is Alyssa, who has never driven before, so the lesson happens en route.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Three of the funniest people working today, weaponized. Honig and Jouhari alone justify a click.
Driver's-ed scenario welded to a bleeding-out-in-the-back-seat thriller — Houang lets Honig, Jouhari, and Stonoha cycle through accents and absurdities at sketch-show pace. Three Busy Debras meets Bottle Rocket, accurate.
Driver's-ed scenario welded onto a bleeding-out-in-the-back-seat thriller, played for laughs — Sandy Honig, Mitra Jouhari, and Alyssa Stonoha co-writing is a comedy pedigree that almost guarantees the bit is honed. Specific, specific, specific.
Reviews
an ingeniously silly sketch that cycles through a smorgasbord of random accents, absurd phrasings, botched language, and ludicrous plot twists