Tim Robinson’s ‘The Chair Company’ Becomes Top HBO Comedy In 5 Years

The Chair Company is just as weird and wonderful as you’d expect a show from Tim Robinson to be and it seems viewers agree.

The series, which premiered on Sunday night, has become HBO ’s most-watched comedy series debut in over five years, since the launch of Avenue 5, the Armando Iannucci-created series that launched in 2020.

The Chair Company averaged 1.4M cross-platform viewers in the U.S. across its first three days.

It is also among the top three comedy series premieres in HBO Max history alongside And Just Like That and Our Flag Means Death .

The Chair Company stars Robinson as William Ronald Trosper, a man who finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy after an embarrassing incident at work. The embarrassing incident? His chair breaks during an important b