The more it went the more endeared and charmed I was by the commitment to the bit, to Skate’s gentle improv, to her voice that sounds both like an old lady who’s been around too long to care about being weird and a little kid who doesn’t know what weird is yet. The laughs got progressively louder with each joke. “Toenails from a man.” “A raisin.” “But it takes the whole family.” “One time I looked at a diamond and it gave me a sunburn.” “We won’t fight unless we’re provoked.” Just delightful.

[YouTube] Marcel is a lovely look at the world from the point of view of little things, where a lint can be a pet. Marcel is an empty shell, with one eye, two feet and a mouth, and aside from Jenny Slate's characteristic childish voice, which helps convey a feeling of sympathy, he also reflects a loneliness that makes him endearing, but with a vision as naive as significant of that environment to which we do not usually pay attention.