The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

Starring: Orion Lee, James Marlowe, Abdiel LeRoy, Ewa Wojcik, Tatjana Sendzimir.

Written & Directed by Lauris Beinerts
Based on a short story "The Meeting" by Alexey Berezin
Produced by Connor Snedecor & Lauris Beinerts
Director of Photography: Matthew Riley
Sound Recordist: Simon Oldham
Production Designer: Karina Beinerte
1st Assistant Director: James Hanline
Make-up Artist: Emily Russell
Editor: Connor Snedecor
Sound Designer: James Bryant
Colourist: Janis Stals
Animator: Benjamin Charles

We made this video using:
- Libre Office Calc to make sense of the shot list...
- 7 different markers and an empty juice pack to get the right sound
- 7 red lines
- A bottle of single malt whiskey

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[LaurisB]

For all the experts out there who can do absolutely anything they're asked to, this is the ideal garment for your office battles.

[Alfosan]

This is not comedy, this is corporate life.

[theabbie]

You know you're an engineer when this doesn't feel like a joke anymore

[ChaChaDancin]

That “executive” was spot on. Perfect, totally disengaged from the details, totally oblivious to how things really work. Too funny.

[mariusg]

I revisit this video every few years, and it gets better and better. Whoever wrote that sketch truly has a deep understanding of the corporate world.

[argentorangeok]

As an engineer, I eventually learned to just agree with them and then did whatever actually needed to be done- knowing they'd never even know the difference.

[HustlersMark]

The scariest thing about this video is just how relatable this is to software developers explaining things to CEO's/Execs.

[CarlosAnglada]

I cannot overstate how absolutely perfect 2:25 is:
- the specs are murky AF
- you ask the customer to clarify
- they realize they do not understand what they want or are asking for
- they bounce it back to you b/c "you are the expert and you should know what applies"
- your sales team speaks for you" of course we do know what you mean!"

[jderekwastaken]

I've done QA for about 8 years, and I've sat through many conversations like this. The way I've found to get everyone on the same page is to say "yes, and..." and begin listing off the expenses you'll need to make a red line with green ink. They seem to start scaling back and clarifying real quick.

[sahibvirk]

This is not fiction. This is a documentary on exactly what experts are treated like if they are forced to work under idiots.

[gghelis]

"I don't know anything about this, you're a specialist. Please tell me how it is done"
"It is done like this"
"I disagree"

[Sabrowsky]

I find it funny that 10 years ago we thought 7 minutes was short.

[mathoma]

As someone who works in client service, I come back to this sketch once in a while. I'm not even an engineer or artist, but I genuinely think this is one of the most perfect satires of the modern professional world in existence. The presumptuousness of the requests, the constant distracted off-topic additions to the ask, the way the client lead quickly checks her pages of notes "that's... what it says here" like she has no idea what she's even asking, and the best part is the end - there's always that point where you mentally just give up on trying to explain why the given task is impossible, play the politics game, and tell them "of course I can do that", give them what's within the limits of reality, and hope they don't notice it's not exactly what they asked for.

[giulianojahn]

"Geometry"
- "Just ignore it."

G E N I US

[tarael]

I thought comedy was meant to make you laugh, not give you extreme anxiety.

[stephenpain]

About twenty-five years ago part of my business involved supplying highly specialised Italian PVC sheet to bank-card manufacturers in Johannesburg. I was asked if the factory in Castiglione Olona could make the material transparent instead of the usual white opaque, because one of the big banks was looking for a new gimmick for cards and they though that a see-through card would be novel. Sample material was flown in, a special mini print run organised and the cards then punched out in time for a presentation to the bank's creative/marketing team. But there was great surprise that when the sample card was turned over, the back of the design printed on the front was visible through the back of the card. The creatives were apparently very disappointed that the printers couldn't solve the 'problem' and the whole idea was quickly shelved. True story.

[P.L.T.M.Banana]

“Winning an argument with someone smart is hard, but with someone dumb is impossible”

[Zach_Routhier]

This is not a comedy sketch, this is a horror film. A+

[missionaryliao]

After the end, everyone gets promoted, except the Expert.

[JoeriBlomberg]

Being asked to inflate a red balloon, because it's red... is the most painfully accurate part of this video. This is how it always goes. Always.