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5 unusual facts about sketch comedy


Anda Pa'l Cará

During their run, the show changed its format to one more oriented to comedy sketches benefitting from Luis Raúl talent.

BU Tonight

The show generally follows a regular format: The host performs a monologue, followed by two or three sketches, an interview segment, and a musical performance.

Jack Ayre

He continued to perform with the Dumbells when they reformed as a civilian touring group performing songs, skits and musicals across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Tyskarna från Lund

The act started as a recurring sketch in Varanteaterns shows, most notably in their TV series Varan-TV.

Xiaopin

Sketch comedy - A Chinese comedic performance in the form of a short skit between two or more performers.


About URI scheme

Still other versions of Netscape would return various phrases in response to an unknown about URI, including “Whatchew talkin' 'bout, Willis?” (a catch phrase from the TV show Diff'rent Strokes) or “Homey don't play dat!” (from a recurring skit on the TV show In Living Color).

Andy Blitz

Andrew "Andy" Blitz (born June 28, 1971) is an American comedian and writer best known for his sketch comedy and writing work on the late-night talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where he earned 7 Emmy nominations.

Ben Oxenbould

From 2003 to 2005 Oxenbould featured as one of the ensemble cast of the sketch comedy series Comedy Inc., in which he was noted for several characters, including his parody of cricketer Shane Warne.

C Is For Cookie

According to the Muppet Central articles on the Songs from the Street Boxed Set, people really like cookies and,"In 1971, Jim Henson and his performers teamed with Jerry Juhl, Joe Raposo and Jeff Moss to write a sketch on each letter of the alphabet".

Die Dreisten Drei

Die Dreisten Drei – Die Comedy WG is a German sketch comedy series, which aired from 2003 to 2008 on Sat.1 and returned in February 2012 with a new cast.

Eskimo kissing

Scenes involving Eskimo kissing are included in countless media, including episodes of The Simpsons, South Park and in a Chappelle's Show sketch in which Eskimo kissing is portrayed as a stereotypically white gesture.

Hindo Kasimov

He is best known for the television comedy sketches performed by him together with leading Bulgarian actors as Vasil Popov, Georgi Partsalev, Stoyanka Mutafova and others.

John Mariano

A gifted improviser, sketch player and voice-over artist, his impression of Robert De Niro in a sketch entitled "De Niro Sings the Supremes" at The Groundlings, led to him playing a pigeon named Bobby in the cartoon series Animaniacs, who is based on a character played by De Niro in Goodfellas.

John Safran's Music Jamboree

It screened in 2002, and consisted of sketches and outlandish public stunts, typical of Safran's work.

Justin Bua

He developed the look and feel of the opening sequence for MTV's sketch-comedy television series The Lyricist Lounge Show (2000–2001), EA Sports video games NBA Street (2001) and NFL Street (2004), and the world of Slum Village's award-winning music video Tainted among others.

Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff (born May 11, 1970 in Petaluma, California) is an actress and writer best known for her work on the late 1990s sketch comedy television program Mr. Show and the Glasgow-set situation comedy The Book Group.

Telephone company

Comedian Lily Tomlin frequently satirized the telephone industry (and the country's then-dominant Bell System in particular) with a skit playing the telephone operator Ernestine.

The Comedy Mill

The Comedy Mill was a Canadian sketch comedy series, which aired from 1986 to 1991 on Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH-TV, and through syndication on other Canadian television stations.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes Direct Hits

The compilation features Rick Mercer "Talking to Americans", and eating burgers and fries with then-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; Marg Delahunty (Mary Walsh) as she "smites" Mike Harris, Lucien Bouchard and Sheila Copps as "Marg, Princess Warrior"; Cathy Jones' blooper about a "Massitusits" case; Jerry Boyle (Greg Thomey) at Parliament Hill; classic ad parodies, sketch comedy, and more.

Very Much Live In Canada

Very Much Live in Canada features a mixture of sketches and serious monologues recorded in front of a live audience in Toronto, Canada and features of mix of new material and new versions previously released material.

Victoria Pile

Victoria Pile, also known as Vicky Pile, is a British comedy writer, director and producer, most noted as the creator of two Channel 4 comedy programmes, the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing.

WNDU-TV

From 1967 to 1986, WNDU aired Beyond Our Control, a locally-produced sketch comedy program, which was presented as part of the station's involvement in the Junior Achievement program.


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A Star Is Born Again

When Helen Fielding runs around being chased by bobbies and a man in a gorilla suit following the book club meeting and the end of the episode, it is an homage to the UK sketch comedy The Benny Hill Show.

Andy Bobrow

It was there that Bobrow made several significant connections, including Will Forte, who introduced Bobrow to his agent at UTA, and Jordan Black, who recommended Bobrow for his first tv writing job, on the short-lived sketch comedy show "Hype" on the WB Network.

Asperger's Are Us

They have performed original sketch comedy shows in many cities in Massachusetts, and have been interviewed several times by both local and national press.

Blake Anderson

In 2006, Anderson formed the sketch comedy group Mail Order Comedy with Anders Holm, Adam DeVine, and Kyle Newacheck.

Brendan Beiser

Beiser is primarily a comedic actor, appearing in sketch-comedy productions like Aardvark (1994) and taking comic roles in feature films Something Beneath and TV such as Night Man, The Fear: Resurrection (1999), Ice Angel (2000), and Wolf Canyon.

Brian Bloodaxe

The game is notable for its esoteric humour which was strongly influenced by the humour of sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, its in-game music (The "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa, better known to most as the Flying Circus theme tune), and colourful graphics.

CHiPs Improv

"The Chapel Hill Players" (CHiPs) is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's premiere improv and sketch comedy team.

Da Band

The group (minus Dylan) parodied what they went through during the filming of Making the Band 2 on Dave Chappelle's sketch comedy show The Chappelle Show.

Dannah Phirman

Phirman teaches sketch comedy writing and improv, and has performed in two-person shows like Eye Candy (with Danielle Schneider), which went to the 2002 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and Special Delivery (with Paul Scheer), a parody of a British children's show in which postal workers rummage through people's mail in search of heartwarming lessons and edibles.

David Armand

As a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Hollow Men, he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe four times between 1999 and 2002, traveled to America as a participant at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in the Colorado mountain resort of Aspen, and to Canada for a performance at Montreal's 2005 Just For Laughs festival.

David McPhail

McPhail first won fame on sketch comedy show A Week of It, partly thanks to his impressions of New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon.

Dynamite Kablammo

Dynamite Kablammo (also referred to as DK) is a sketch comedy group based in the San Fernando Valley, established in 2006 by Greg Kaczynski, Matt DeNoto, and Candida Rodriguez.

Egg cream

In the television sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, an episode in which Jon Hamm hosts features a skit called "Two A-Holes At An Ad Agency in the 1960s" (parodying Mad Men), and the Pete Campbell character offers the clients an egg cream to assuage them.

Hey You Millionaires

The name was taken from the first sketch of the pilot episode of late 80s-early 90s Canadian sketch comedy show "The Kids in the Hall".

Hi/Lo Film Festival

Though not at all limited to comedic films, the Hi/Lo Film Festival is produced by San Francisco sketch comedy troupe Killing My Lobster.

Holoubek

Todd Holoubek (born 1969), American film and television actor, comedian, and sketch-comedy writer

House of Buggin'

House of Buggin' is a short-lived Latino-themed sketch comedy television show, which aired on Sunday night at 8:30 pm est in 1995, starring John Leguizamo and Luis Guzmán.

Ian Boothby

The creator of the sketch comedy series The 11th Hour, called "The funniest sketch series since SCTV" by the National Post, as well as the creator of the TV pilots Space Arm, Vancouver PM and I Dig BC and the co-creator of Channel 92 along with Dean Haglund and Christine Lippa.

Jason Hsiao

He also produced Comedy Central's Showbiz Show with David Spade, and MTV2's sketch comedy show Stankervision and MTV's Viva La Bam.

John Milhiser

He has been a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2005, where he was a member of the sketch comedy group Serious Lunch, who have been featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Attack of the Show.

Jon Glaser

Glaser is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he performed in the sketch comedy troupes Comedy Company and Just Kidding with Jon Hein, he is a five-time Emmy nominee with the writing staff of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Mark Meer

In 2005, Meer was nominated for an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for co-writing the surreal sketch comedy show, Lobster Telephone (in which he also played Salvador Dalí), with the ladies of Panties Productions.

McElhinney

Mandy McElhinney, Australian actress appearing in the TV sketch comedy series Comedy Inc

Melina Paez

She has trained for improvisation at Chicago's The Second City, performed in several sketch comedy shows, plays and in non-commercial radio (DJ Slothgirl, 89.1fm WIDR, Kalamazoo).

Melissa Paull

Paull is most notable for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv.

Metromedia Square

Shows like the Fox-produced Small Wonder and NBC's Saved by the Bell as well as the sketch comedy series In Living Color, and the first season of MAD TV were among the last series to be taped at this complex.

Mitch Silpa

He is a member of The Groundlings, an improv and sketch comedy troupe based in Los Angeles.

Patrick Bristow

Bristow is also an alumnus of the Los Angeles landmark sketch comedy/improv troupe The Groundlings, where he still occasionally performs improvisation comedy.

Peter Reveen

In an episode of the Canadian sketch comedy program The Holmes Show, there is a sketch featuring Roman Danylo as a stage hypnotist named "Crevasse the Impossiblist".

Pett Productions

Monkey Trousers (2004-5) Sketch comedy series, originally titled The All Star Comedy Show, co produced with Steve Coogan's Baby Cow Productions.

Rob Huebel

Huebel and fellow comedians Aziz Ansari and Paul Scheer are writers, actors, and executive producers in the MTV sketch comedy show Human Giant.

Rory O'Donoghue

Rory O'Donoghue (born 1948) is an Australian actor and musician, best known for playing the character "Thin Arthur" in the 1970s ABC Television sketch comedy series The Aunty Jack Show.

Shameik Moore

In 2012, Shameik joined the cast of the sketch-comedy series, Incredible Crew which was created and produced by entertainer Nick Cannon.

Shameik Moore (born May 4, 1995) is an American singer, actor, rapper, dancer, model, best known for starring in the sketch-comedy series, Incredible Crew that aired on Cartoon Network.

Sniper Twins

Barry Adam Flanagan and Dax Armand Martinez-Vargas attended film school at University of Texas where they created the sketch comedy show Nothing Liquid with friends Jeff Bevill and Brandon Wilde which screened at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

Spencer Kayden

Kayden is most notable for playing Little Sally in the Broadway musical Urinetown and for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv.

Television comedy

Sketch comedy was pioneered by Sid Caesar, whose Your Show of Shows debuted in 1950 and established many conventions of the genre.

The Minnesota Wrecking Crew

The Minnesota Wrecking Crew is a Canadian sketch comedy troupe, featuring members John Catucci, Josh Glover, Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang and Ron Sparks.

The Missing White House Tapes

The Missing White House Tapes was a sketch comedy voice recording which was a satiric commentary on the Watergate scandal.

The Robot Johnson Show

Given the previous success of The Perch (which had folded in 2006 after eleven years of performing in Charlotte) and Keenan's national notoriety as the voice and puppeteer of MTV2 character The Talking Baby, Young thought that the time was right to start a new sketch comedy troupe in the city.

Trey Anthony

She was also a writer and performer for Kenny Robinson's sketch comedy show After Hours with Kenny Robinson and a writer for The Chris Rock Show.

Willie Gilbert

There he discovered that his physician, Jack Weinstock, had a skill for writing, and soon the two were contributing sketch comedy to night-club performers including Kaye Ballard and Eileen Barton, and then to the Broadway review Tickets Please.

Zach Anner

While attending school, he obtained celebrity interviews through That's Awesome! a sketch comedy program on the university's local Public-access television cable TV channel called Texas Student TV K29HW-D.