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Balham, Gateway to the South

Balham, Gateway to the South is comedy sketch parodying a short travel documentary about the south London suburb of Balham.


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Abi Roberts

She studied Russian and Italian at Swansea University, attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (and later the Moscow Conservatoire) and gained prominence in a series of comedy sketch shows on the London stage and at the Edinburgh Festival, including the satirical comedy Newsrevue.

Absolutely Productions

Absolutely Productions is a television production company formed in 1988 by Morwenna Banks, Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter, Pete Baikie, John Sparkes and Gordon Kennedy, all of whom were the cast of British television comedy sketch show AbsoluTEly.

Amy Wren

She was then engaged for Walt Disney's Comedy Sketch show Life Bites, playing the lead role as Chloe.

Biff Rose

Born in New Orleans, Rose moved to Hollywood where he found a job working as a comedy sketch writer with George Carlin working sometimes on the Mort Sahl show.

Bottler

"Bottler" is also a character created by Irish stand-up comedian Brendan Grace; in the comedy sketch, "bottler's" partner-in-crime was called "rasher"

Brendan Venter

Venter gave extremely short answers to every question posed to him, and afterwards admitted that he was inspired from a comedy sketch from the film Mike Bassett: England Manager which he had recently watched.

Charlotte Hudson

Hudson also appeared in the comedy sketch show Bruiser alongside the likes of Mitchell & Webb, Olivia Colman, Martin Freeman, and Matthew Holness.

Ed Petrie

In 2002, Ed Petrie was a researcher for the BBC programme, They Think It's All Over and, in 2005, was a comedy sketch writer for BBC Radio 1's The Milk Run.

Gabriel Tiacoh

In the comedy sketch show Little Britain, Denver Mills (David Walliams) claims to have the silver medal won by Tiacoh at the 1984 Summer Olympics, however this is not mentioned in the show.

Jake T. Austin

Austin began his career in 2002 at the age of 7, with roles in commercials, and in 2003 he appeared in his first credited acting role as "Kid 1698" in a comedy sketch on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Jessika Van

Van also appeared as "The Star" in Megan Lee's Music Video for Destiny, Directed by Timothy Tau, as "Babe" in a comedy sketch YouTube video by The Fung Brothers about Jeremy Lin entitled "The Jeremy Lin Effect 2 (Linsanity)" also Directed by Timothy Tau.

May Warden

Although she played in other films and TV shows, in Germany and Scandinavia she is best known for her role as Miss Sophie in the comedy sketch Dinner for One along with Freddie Frinton in a 1963 recording.

Mitoy Yonting

Through his television appearances, Yonting pursued a career as a comedian in GMA Network's sitcom called the Ful Haus, and the comedy sketch show H3O: Ha Ha Ha Over aired on QTV.

Sonny with a Chance

Sonny is a friendly, eccentric and well-intentioned teenage girl from Appleton, Wisconsin who lands a main role on her favorite comedy sketch television show, So Random!.

Stefan Golaszewski

He is a part of comedy sketch group Cowards, which also includes Tim Key, Tom Basden and Lloyd Woolf.

Susan Paterno

Paterno was a regular cast member of both Eric Bana's comedy sketch show Eric in 1997 and Shaun Micallef'sThe Micallef Programme in 1998.

Tavin Pumarejo

For example, he claims that a television comedy sketch featuring himself, Adrián García and Marcos Betancourt, all stammerers, would be four hours long.

This Day Tonight

One notable example of its sometimes controversial editorial approach was a musical comedy sketch that satirised the actions of then-NSW Premier Robert Askin, who was reported to have ordered his driver to "run over the bastards" when anti-war demonstrators threw themselves in the front the car in which he and visiting U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson were travelling.

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

A one-off, fifty minute comedy sketch show special, written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood.

Wood and Walters

Wood and Walters is a British television comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood.