There is much to be learned from Reggie Watts.

February 27, 2014 9:27 AM

Reggie Watts teaches science. Reggie Watts teaches literature.
posted by Shepherd (10 comments total)

Is there anything this man does that fails to delight? My sources say no.
posted by Hicksu at 9:39 AM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

Peter Sellers of the 2010s, That's what I think. What doesn't he do? Pure fucking genius.
posted by brokeaspoke at 9:57 AM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

"Bad Teacher" is at this point an established genre, with Bad Education, Mr. D, Big School, the eponymous film, etc., and now this. I'm a bit amazed by its immunity to diminishing returns, tbh.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:13 AM on February 27, 2014

He does intellectual double-talk the way Sid Caesar did foreign language double-talk. His work with Soulive is my favorite, though.
posted by GrapeApiary at 10:37 AM on February 27, 2014

Metafilter: A freak of nature that's created by a system of interstellar governments that decide to put together all the greatest, most strongest parts of the sapien community in order to have a super soldier designed to attack legions of people without incurring almost any damage.
posted by Flunkie at 10:52 AM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

I liked the part with the scotch tape.
posted by sneebler at 12:12 PM on February 27, 2014

Watching the science one for me was kind of like listening to this as a native english speaker
posted by Blasdelb at 1:10 PM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

No, it's the cheetah.
posted by Joe in Australia at 4:12 PM on February 27, 2014

I think it's cool that this is packed with great, and he doesn't even make music.
posted by dylanjames at 9:11 PM on February 27, 2014

I have so much love for Reggie Watts. He's also on the new Getting Doug with High.
posted by Room 641-A at 12:56 PM on March 1, 2014