At its best, "Tinder Live" feels like a sketch show.
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Olivia Colman made her debut on sketch show "Bruiser" in 2000.
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Pell and Spivey were writers on the long-running sketch show.
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I don't know if this is my favorite sketch show of the year — but that I'm saying that says more about how good this year has been for sketch than it does Black Lady Sketch Show.
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The move will take the critically acclaimed sketch show into Season 5.
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Kanye West opened this season of the comedy sketch show on Sept.
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NBC's late night sketch show sets out to skewer the cultural zeitgeist.
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Critics wrote that "Sherman's Showcase" is a nostalgic and wonderful sketch show.
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Thede's "specifically cast, universally funny" sketch show proves that inclusion is possible.
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He also cowrote and starred in the BAFTA-winning series The Sketch Show.
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Comedy sketch show or not, you just cannot get the man off-message.
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Kate McKinnon's first on-screen role was on "The Big Gay Sketch Show."
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They were hilarious, both in their fifties and basically like a sketch show.
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I was doing a sketch show called Camp Hot with two of my girlfriends.
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He appeared on ITV series The Sketch Show, which aired from 2001 to 2004.
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Like a beautiful sketch show, and that's kind of what this Vimeo series is.
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At ten, she wrote a script for a sketch show called Friday Night Live.
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In 2015, the group was given a sketch show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
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Up next: The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show, slated to premiere on Netflix this year.
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Are you going to do more "W/ Bob & David," your sketch show on Netflix?
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The 43-year-old sketch show last year saw its biggest audiences in 23 years.
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IFC has acquired Baroness von Sketch Show, a series that originated on CBC in Canada.
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Lopez also wore the dress when she hosted the late night sketch show in 2001.
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I then catch up on some TV — Righteous Gemstones, Black Lady Sketch Show, and Catastrophe.
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It is also possible for a 40-year-old sketch show to sometimes be bad.
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Later in December of 2017, Johansson reprised her role of Ivanka Trump on the sketch show.
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I've worked with Amy before, she's put me in a couple sketches for her sketch show.
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The video is set to air within comedian Rip Michaels' upcoming sketch show Off The Rip.
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On his family's dialup internet, he created his own comedy sketch show called Veronica and Sharon.
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Just take a peek at his Twitter account, which routinely bashes NBC's long-running sketch show.
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There's a Hulu documentary called "Too Funny to Fail," about Dana Carvey's sketch show on ABC.
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"Sherman's Showcase" is currently airing on IFC and "A Black Lady Sketch Show" airs on HBO.
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She also has a comedy sketch show "with an identity focus" in development with Comedy Central.
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Ultimately Chappelle walked away from his hit sketch show because he hated "being right" all the time.
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Schumer's Comedy Central sketch show, "Inside Amy Schumer," has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmys, winning three.
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I wasn't yet a year old when Nickelodeon's SNL-but-for-kids sketch show first season aired.
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It won the award for the best variety sketch show for the second year in a row.
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Drew Barrymore was just seven when she hosted the sketch show for the first time in 1982.
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She compares it to HBO's Black Lady Sketch Show and the Tiffany Haddish Netflix special, They Ready.
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The sketch show returned for its 43rd (!!!) season Saturday night, and kicked things off with host Ryan Gosling.
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I'm Stuck, his sold out one-man sketch show now playing at Joe's Pub in New York City.
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Before Martin Short made his debut on "SNL," he had starred on sketch show "SCTV" for a season.
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Like the best moments of this sketch show, the disruptive performance provides a respite from normalcy and coherence.
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The star finally confirmed that the rumors were true while making her debut on the late night sketch show.
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When we first became friends, our goal for a really long time was just to have a sketch show.
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Most long-form improv uses audience suggestions to assemble a series of loosely connected scenes, like a sketch show.
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We were thinking of doing a sketch show, but there was also possible interest in doing a talk show.
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His guest on Tuesday is Keegan-Michael Key, best known for the sketch show "Key & Peele" with Jordan Peele.
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Season 4, The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show, The Circle France, #blackAF, Outer Banks, and competition show Cooked with Cannabis.
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During a recent interview with Extra, Morgan said he binge-watched Peele's hit sketch show during his long recovery process.
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With all that going on, an animated sketch show by a team of Simpsons writers doesn't feel out of place.
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Almost every wisecrack in A Black Lady Sketch Show spouts and spreads like magma, its wit and social clarity inescapable.
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Davidson started his career as a stand-up comedian and joined popular satirical sketch show "Saturday Night Live" in 2014.
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Politics has become so far-fetched these days that certain moments almost feel like something out of a sketch show.
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These absurdist characters from the children's sketch show "All That" were beloved '290s oddities that could thrive only on cable.
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When at last he did expire, on November 223th, the new satirical sketch show "Saturday Night Live" saw an opening.
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"The Tony Rock Project," a sketch show that debuted in 2008 on MyNetworkTV, a Fox-owned network, lasted one season.
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The reaction to a trailer for the comedy sketch show, "Urban Myths," suggested they might have been the only ones.
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Mr. Key, 45, starred on "Key & Peele," a popular sketch show on Comedy Central with Jordan Peele that ended last year.
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Sketch show "Saturday Night Live" soon broadcast its own take of the interview, which has been viewed over 15 million times.
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Jennifer Lopez, who split from Affleck in 2004 after their failed engagement, is hosting the sketch show with musical guest DaBaby.
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I'm in the mood to watch something funny and put on an episode of A Black Lady Sketch Show on HBO.
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The sketch show broke its own record for nominations, snagging more this year than it ever has in its four-decade run.
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These guys are hilarious, and it'd be great to see them reunite months after the last episode of their sketch show aired.
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The popularity of their Key & Peele Comedy Central sketch show even led to him writing and acting in his first film, Keanu.
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They became the sketch show Jeffery and Cole Casserole, which became a cult classic for its wacky and unapologetically queer comedic sensibilities.
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The British comedian BENNY HILL was best known for his long-running sketch show, which featured slapstick, mime, parody and double entendre.
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NBC just announced that the beloved and often controversial comedian will make his debut on the sketch show on Saturday, November 12.
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Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the African-American comedy duo behind Key & Peele also took home an Emmy forOutstanding Variety Sketch Show.
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"Yaz Leqeq" ("Temperamental"), a sketch show that aired on a satellite channel last autumn, offered impersonations of prominent politicians (including the prime minister).
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Pharoah stopped by the radio station Hot 97 to talk about his relationship with the weekly sketch show, which still sounds really tense.
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Jack Howard and Dean Dobbs, the duo from YouTube comedy sketch show Jack & Dean, are making their narrative series debut with the show.
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Former Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen is hosting the season finale of the hit NBC sketch show on Saturday, May 21.
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Where to watch: Netflix HBO's latest comedy series, A Black Lady Sketch Show is easily the funniest thing to hit cable this summer.
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"SNL" creator Lorne Michaels discussed on the "Origins With James Andrew Miller" podcast Baldwin's involvement with the long-running, late-night sketch show.
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Darrell Hammond played Trump on SNL last season, and before that it was Taran Killam, who is not returning to the sketch show.
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"Games of Thrones" got 22 nods, followed by NBC sketch show "Saturday Night Live" and HBO's sci-fi series "Westworld" with 21 nominations each.
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The long-running variety sketch show announced Wednesday the man behind Hamilton will host the second installment of series' 42nd season on Oct. 8.
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Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England, the comedian also cowrote and starred in the BAFTA-winning series The Sketch Show.
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The troupe first won acclaim for its offbeat and unpredictable TV sketch show "Monty Python's Flying Circus," which ran for five years until 19633.
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Soon after he became the focus of a satirical sketch show for "Saturday Night Live", in which he was portrayed by actress Melissa McCarthy.
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O sketch show "Saturday Night Live" and HBO's sci-fi series "Westworld" with 21 nominations each, and Hulu's dystopian vision "The Handmaid's Tale" with 20173.
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Per Deadline, YouTube Premium has given a straight-to-series order for Weird City, a new half-hour comedy from the former sketch show star.
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After his time on the sketch show, Myers created one of his most famous characters, British spy Austin Powers, who Myers played in three films.
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It's a perfect representation of the sketch show, known for its sweet and sometimes tart, well-aged takes on everything from pop culture to politics.
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The sketch show is unique that it features exclusively funny ladies — because, as everyone should know by now, hilarious women are not exactly a rarity.
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The longtime cast member is departing the series after nine seasons on the NBC sketch show, a source close to the show confirmed to CNN.
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Catherine O'Hara starred on the sitcom "Coming Up Rosie" and went on to sketch show "SCTV" at the start of her career in the '70s.
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Obama's "voice" was provided by actor and director Jordan Peele, known for his pitch-perfect impersonations of the president on his sketch show, "Key & Peele."
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Often, the secret to great sketch comedy is knowing when to end a sketch, and Black Lady Sketch Show always leaves you on a high.
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Mr. Peele is best known for his work with Keegan-Michael Key on their titular comedy sketch show, where politics mixed freely with the laughs.
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We shot the first episode with Michael Cera for a sketch show I was filming, in the basement of where my office was at the time.
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In her stand-up and sketch show, "Inside Amy Schumer," she blends her raunchy humor with empowered feminism for an exciting, relevant take on modern culture.
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The Real McCoy was a comedy sketch show featuring an exclusively Afro-Caribbean and Asian cast (at a time when anyone not white was deemed "black").
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"One of the hardest things about a sketch show is," he started to say, before taking a second to consider what the hardest thing could be.
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She joined the cast at age of 47, giving her the distinction of being the oldest person to join the sketch show as a cast member.
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Chappelle made a huge name for himself while starring on "Chappelle's Show," a racially charged sketch show that ran on Comedy Central from 2003 to 2006.
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New Zealand sketch show Funny Girls' clever parody of a typically macho pickup truck (or "ute") commercial is going viral online, and it's easy to see why.
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Notably, the studio worked with "Saturday Night Live" to get James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, to host the comedy sketch show ahead of the film's original release.
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There are the sketch geniuses of A Black Lady Sketch Show and Astronomy Club (the latter series debuted the same day as Maisel and is therefore eligible).
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Reddit has banned the subreddit for Million Dollar Extreme, a comedy group popular with the alt-right that briefly had a sketch show on Adult Swim in 2016.
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This particular SNL is a pretty big deal, as it will be the first time that both Cardi and Boseman will appear on NBC's long-running sketch show.
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In a hilarious sketch from the May premiere of Maya & Marty – NBC's new sketch show starring Maya Rudolph and Martin Short – Hanks played a less-than-honest astronaut.
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One week after Saturday Night Live made last minute cuts on jokes about Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct scandal, the sketch show came out swinging against the movie mogul.
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The Jonas Brothers made a triumphant return to the Saturday Night Live stage this weekend, more than a decade after their debut on the long-running sketch show.
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Mr. Baldwin said that Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of "Saturday Night Live," has countered that the sketch show has long been an equal-opportunity heckler.
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News broke last week that the beloved member of the comedy ensemble who debuted on the series in 2014 would leave the sketch show ahead of Season 45.
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The departure of Killam and Jay Pharoah, who was surprisingly let go from the sketch show along with Killam, was announced last month ahead of the show's 42nd season.
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"Saturday Night LiveDuring rehearsal for a February episode of the sketch show, Kanye has a meltdown, and is heard in a leaked audio clip calling Taylor Swift "fake ass.
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The rapper performed the new track on NBC's sketch show Saturday with help from a small squad of friends including Young Thug, The Dream, El DeBarge and Kelly Price.
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Fallon, a former cast member of TV sketch show "Saturday Night Live," took over NBC's flagship late night talk show in 2014, injecting the format with games and stunts.
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And not only a sketch show, but one that involved Leigh Francis, a straight-to-ITV2 comedian, donning rubber blackface and cawing inexplicably "urban" cliches in a Northern accent.
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After stints as a go-go dancer, Hawn started out on Good Morning, World in 1967-68, then got famous on the sketch show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
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Watch Black Lady Sketch Show if you like: Inside Amy Schumer, Key and Peele, Silicon Valley Where to watch: New episodes air Fridays at 11 pm Eastern on HBO.
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Their television sketch show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus," became a phenomenon, first in Britain and then in the United States when it was rebroadcast there in the mid-20123s.
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" They looked like really lame band names but were, instead, potential sketch ideas scrawled on a whiteboard in the writers' room of the comedy series "Baroness Von Sketch Show.
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For this futuristic sketch show, Joe Berkowitz, a pop culture writer at Fast Company, will present a series of interconnected sketches about the rollout of "Trump TV" in 2018.
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Do yourself a favor and kick off the holiday TV season not with heavy drama or days-long binges, but with Netflix's potently excellent Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show.
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Both of these series dominated their categories — limited series and drama, respectively — with NBC's Saturday Night Live following behind with four wins within the comedy and variety sketch show races.
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The characters of 30 Rock may have worked for a comically bad sketch show, but they were still network television employees who could afford to live in fancy Manhattan apartments.
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Certainly, there are enough comedy moments to fill a sketch show, not least because the gang of Soviet leaders left in Stalin's wake keep making jokes at each other's expense.
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Back then, you could catch barbershop comedy Desmond's on Channel 63 plus BBC2's The Real McCoy sketch show and two-hour black comedy and entertainment show The A Force.
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Refusing to believe that racism exists until a comedy sketch show opens your eyes suggests, again, a sense that the documented damage done to black people isn't all that important.
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The writer and director, Jordan Peele (of the comedy sketch show "Key & Peele"), knows how to make shadowy streets into menacing ones and turn silences into warnings from the abyss.
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Maybe next year — when Kerry Washing's American Son, HBO's beloved Black Lady Sketch Show, and One Day at A Time's much-lauded PopTV revival are all eligible — that can happen.
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Mr. Peele, 73, is known for his subversive comedy sketch show with Keegan-Michael Key, and had never before seen a movie like the one he desperately wanted to make.
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Just when Saturday Night Live fans came to terms with saying goodbye to Bobby Moynihan and Vanessa Bayer, another it's been revealed that another cast member is leaving the sketch show.
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And once again, the president's son managed to utter a sentence about Joe Biden's son, Hunter, that makes you question whether you're watching a real interview or a satirical sketch show.
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Other 2016 candidates to appear on the comedy sketch show this cycle include Sanders's Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump, who hosted the show last November.
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Jones, a beloved member of the comedy ensemble who made her debut on the series in 2014, is leaving the sketch show, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
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When many of us were first introduced to Oscar winner Jordan Peele, it was through the Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele, which also starred his best friend Keegan-Michael Key.
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So they decided pool their expertise to design a sketch show for a smart, urban, platform-agnostic audience — and they did so with a shared sense of now-or-never urgency.
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You've got the all-women, uber-popular Baroness von Sketch Show, whose principal cast is four seriously funny improv veterans from Canada: Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne, Carolyn Taylor, and Jennifer Whalen.
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He showed off a photo of himself from when he first started on the sketch show ("You know what they say – money don&apost crack") and tossed out a few zingers.
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While the sketch show is known for its brutal takedowns of Donald Trump and other government officials, Saturday night's season 43 premiere directed its ire towards a different subject: the Papyrus font.
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Jimmy Fallon: Saturday Night Live The comedian delivered a seemingly endless array of impressions, earning a six-year stint on the sketch show (not to mention a thriving post-SNL career). 4.
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Why had we allowed a black British artist who'd straddled commercial success and critical acclaim all before his twentieth birthday to become little more than a cheap punchline for a sketch show?
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Tech bros, Facebook over-sharers, proud parents of the gender-fluid: all feature in the group's new sketch show, "Tard Core—There Are No Safe Words," at Joe's Pub on June 28.
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It's almost hard to believe that she's still even doing the sketch show as her star has gone supernova since filming the last season, but it should be returning in short order.
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"Like everyone, I'm struggling to understand what happened that night, and how to pick up the pieces and start to heal," Aldean said as he opened the late-night comedy sketch show.
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Friday's Google Doodle — the graphic or animation that headlines the search engine for the day — features a retro-themed image of Gómez Bolaños reminiscent of his long-running "Chespirito" comedy sketch show.
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Several photos and images of the sketch show Rosales with brown skin, thick lips and wearing a black wig in an apparent effort to make herself look more like the indigenous actress.
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Gillis was one of three cast members recently added to the 45th season of the sketch-show, but was let go after racist and homophobic slurs he made on his podcast resurfaced.
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Thompson and Mitchell (it feels super weird to not refer to them as Kenan and Kel) debuted Good Burger employees Dexter and Ed on the Nickelodeon sketch show All That back in 1994.
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They have released a Saturday Night Live-esque live sketch show called SMOSH Live, two seasons of a sitcom (Part Timers), and launched eight new shows (including the popular Every Blank Ever series).
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Rio Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles made the case for her and her fellow U.S.A. gymnast teammates – Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian, Laurie Hernandez and Gabby Douglas – to host the longtime NBC sketch show.
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The Saturday Night Live producer kept it casual in denim and a long-sleeved striped shirt, and showed her pride for the sketch show with white Converse sneakers emblazoned with the series' title.
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I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as a bad bitch support group, but after watching the trailer to A Black Lady Sketch Show, I feel a very urgent need to attend one.
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Key & Peele was plenty enjoyable as a traditional broadcast TV sketch show, but its sketches took flight on the internet, where fans could devour them in bite-sized pieces and show their friends.
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The satirical sketch show was Corbett's big breakthrough, introducing him to Ronnie Barker, with whom he formed the legendary comedy double act The Two Ronnies which firmly established Corbett as a household name.
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" This one-man sketch show, directed by Christian Coulson, features Mr. Escola playing multiple characters in a string of vignettes that are billed as operating "on the fringes of coherence and social acceptability.
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From producer Kenya Barris (Black-ish, Girls Trip), Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show will bring the comedy from the Upright Citizens Brigade's first all black team to the small — or very small — screen.
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In 1968, just before winning the presidential election, he popped up on a hit television sketch-show, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" to repeat, in typically lugubrious deadpan, its catchphrase: "Sock it to me".
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According to a press release from Nickelodeon, the Kenan Thompson-produced sketch show will return on Saturday, June 15, with the Jonas Brothers (that's Joe, Nick, and Kevin) as the show's first musical guests.
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Peele was known as an incisive comedian from his racially frank, wide-ranging sketch show Key and Peele, but nothing in his history suggested he had such a talent for crafting mesmerizing horror stories.
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As I hadn't had it with my dinner as planned, I ran into a liquor store across the street to grab a single serving bottle of red wine to sneak into a sketch show.
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We've rounded up all 152 past, present, and future "SNL" cast members and found out what they're doing now, whether it's being retired from acting or starring on the sketch show as we speak.
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Ms. Brown joined the frenetic sketch show "Laugh-In" in 1968, appearing with performers like Ruth Buzzi, Jo Anne Worley and Alan Sues and dancing in a bikini alongside a similarly clad Goldie Hawn.
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Ms. MacNeill was working in the ensemble, and the two began to polish the pitch for a female-driven sketch show that would be naturalistic, observational and shot on location with a single camera.
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"On Saturday Night, my man would always deliver, whether he was a Bumblebee Girl or livin' in a van down by the river," Sandler continues, referencing some of Farley's popular characters from the sketch show.
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Comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele may have wrapped up their five-season run of Key & Peele on Comedy Central last September, but they haven't completely abandoned fans of the sketch show just yet.
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The show was inspired in part by Portlandia, a sketch show that crams in lots of different topical bits, often about the mundanity of day-to-day life, and stars a number of recurring characters.
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But when I hear that Jenny Slate is attached to Earth Break, that speaks to me as, "Oh, that doesn't sound like a 'Jenny Slate thing,'" unlike how a dramedy or goofy sketch show does.
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Trump Jr.'s dad is also a frequent critic of the sketch show, often using the social media platform to bash it and its lampooning of him, especially by Alec Baldwin, who portrays the president.
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Saturday Night Live is the longest running sketch show in the United States, and with alumni like Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, and Andy Samberg, it's easy to see why.
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This is why it's hard to break in a new sketch show — because the first season you just look like a bunch of people putting on outfits and trying too hard to make everybody laugh.
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Kate McKinnon is one of only a few LGBTQ+ actors to be cast on hit comedy sketch show "Saturday Night Live," and the first gay woman to be cast since Danitra Vance in the 1980s.
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The actor and comedian who helmed the eponymous sketch show The Kroll Show created and executive produced a 10-episode animated Netflix Original called Big Mouth, which will premiere on September 29 on the streaming site.
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Lorne Michaels will be looking for fresh comedy blood to inject into the cast of Saturday Night Live, as Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah won't be returning to the sketch show next season, Mashable has confirmed.
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Adam Sandler, Sandra Oh, John Mulaney, Emma Thompson, Matt Damon and Robert De Niro all received nods for their time hosting the late night comedy sketch show, while Kate McKinnon was the only series regular acknowledged.
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I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson's brilliant, brain-bleedingly awkward sketch show that taught the world what to look for in a new car when it premiered back in April, is coming back for more.
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The theater was founded by Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Matt Besser at another Chelsea location during the run of their Comedy Central sketch show, "Upright Citizens Brigade," which ran from 1998 to 2000.
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WarnerMedia's planned sessions at SXSW had included panels for TBS's "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee"; HBO's "Watchmen" with Damon Lindelof, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross; and HBO's "A Black Lady Sketch Show" with creator Robin Thede.
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Viewer ratings have soared for "Saturday Night Live," NBC's long-running weekly comedy sketch show, since Baldwin started appearing as Trump in a series of skits mocking the billionaire reality TV star turned politician in October.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sci-fi drama "Westworld" and satirical sketch show "Saturday Night Live" led Emmy award nominations on Thursday with 22 apiece in a list stuffed with new contenders that reflected a booming era for television.
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Former castmember Fred Armisen delivered a short speech about Bowie – who died at 69 after a battle with cancer last Sunday – and recalled spending his youth watching the British singer performing on the long-running sketch show.
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Baltimore's police force issued a formal complaint against the hit comedy sketch show after last week's episode aired a skit titled "Thirsty Cops," in which two female officers made sexual advances toward a man they pulled over.
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People like Robin Thede from Black Lady Sketch Show—who was in our sketch comedy group Cleo's Apartment in 2004—and the guys behind The New Negroes have been making similar content on their own for years.
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And clearly, it was Emmy catnip: The show cleaned up this year, winning all four guest and supporting comedy performance Emmys, as well as the awards for directing for a variety series and best variety sketch show.
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Both big sister Beyoncé and mom Tina Knowles-Lawson were on hand at Studio 8H for Solange's debut on the sketch show, and they weren't afraid to keep up some long-standing family traditions on the iconic stage.
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This time, the late-night sketch show took aim at Trump's ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin and his reaction to the CIA and FBI's revelations that Russia was trying to influence the U.S. presidential election through cyberattacks.
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If you're looking for funny spoofs of pop culture mega-celebrities, forget "Saturday Night Live" and try the Instagram page of the comic Kyle Dunnigan, who has been putting on a crowd-pleasing one-man digital sketch show.
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"Alternatino" stars the "Broad City" alum Arturo Castro in a sketch show (based on his Comedy Central web series) that sends up American ideals about Latino culture in the same vein as Schumer did with modern American womanhood.
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But it is, I believe, revealing, a reflection of the rarefied world Chappelle has existed in for the last 15 years of his fame, since the days of "Chappelle's Show," the sketch show that made him a superstar.
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I also work on some lines for a sketch show I'm in next week and get a few administrative things done for a brunch showcase I'm putting together at the bar where my girlfriend, T., is a bartender.
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The show was canceled after one season, but a year later, she's back on cable TV making history again with HBO's new series Black Lady Sketch Show, the first sketch comedy show written by and starring Black women.
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Especially when you consider that, when I'd been doing casting for the breakout sketch show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the years before I joined the Mary Tyler Moore Show, I was told I could never be a writer.
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The 26-year-old, who used to date her co-star from the "Twilight" film series, Robert Pattinson, made headlines in February when she announced she was gay while hosting the U.S. late night sketch show "Saturday Night Live".
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So, yeah, Key & Peele occupied the lane of personality-driven Black sketch show unafraid to comment on race, but it did so in a way that was wholly distinct from how Chappelle and writing partner Neal Brennan did so.
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On his own sketch show — Key and Peele — Jordan Peele has already played a vampire, a dying demon child, and a man trapped in a breakfast-centric vision of hell, but now the comedian is embracing the darkness completely.
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And director Peter Atencio is the perfect fit for a project like this, given his experience directing every episode of Comedy Central's genre-bending sketch show Key and Peele, not to mention the comedy duo's recent action comedy, Keanu.
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In addition to "Sherman's Showcase," which premiered on July 31, this summer has also seen the premieres of HBO's "A Black Lady Sketch Show" (which premiered August 2) and Comedy Central's "Alternatino with Arturo Castro" (which premiered June 18).
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"The Handmaid's Tale" and political comedy "Veep" won the top prizes at the Emmy awards on Sunday, but satirical sketch show "Saturday Night Live" won the most Emmys overall on the back of a season of Donald Trump spoofs.
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And the fact that Trump hasn't even launched his usual Twitter tirade about the sketch show, opting instead to avoid mentioning it publicly at all, might be a sign that his easily ruffled feathers got more ruffled than usual.
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He starred in several popular TV shows in the 1960s and 70s as well as a number of films, but was perhaps best known for his sketch show with Ronnie Barker, The Two Ronnies, which ran for 17 years from 313.
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Like any sketch show in history, there's a few sketches that don't quite land, like the one that focuses on a brand of T-shirt with a knob on the front so you can tug it and adjust it more easily.
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Trump, who has hosted the hit NBC sketch show in the past, has been slamming SNL for the past month, with criticisms ranging from the late-night show somehow "rigging" the election (before he won) to continually sniping about Baldwin's impression.
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The scene, which jolts and spellbinds with the affecting draw of a Last Poets cipher, is just one of several fluorescent currents from HBO's dynamic and dynamite six-episode series A Black Lady Sketch Show, which debuts tonight on HBO.
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The various scandals crested earlier this month in a debate on stage at the Quincy Community Theatre, where Mr. Rauner and Mr. Pritzker faced off in tones that would not have seemed out of place on a late-night sketch show.
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Twitter user HappyToast first made it in 2008 as part of a weekly Photoshop challenge, he told The Verge in an email, and it was included in the BBC3 TV series The Wrong Door, a sketch show set in a parallel universe.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Saturday Night Live" performers Colin Jost and Michael Che will host the Emmy Awards in September while Lorne Michaels, the creator of the satirical sketch show, will produce the ceremony honoring the best in television, broadcaster NBC announced on Thursday.
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NBC's satirical sketch show "Saturday Night Live" won nine Emmys, including statuettes for Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy's skits on former White House spokesman Sean Spicer, Kate McKinnon's turns as losing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and White House aide Kellyanne Conway.
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If season three had succeeded thanks to an acidic, acerbic take on politics, season four seemed at times to shy away from that sort of material, in favor of broad pop culture parodies that essentially every other sketch show had already tried.
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When five 40-year-old British men banter about Big Train, a British sketch show from 1998, making me and a young female in the room feel like we don't get comedy or understand "funny" because we can't join in their banter, I feel uncomfortable.
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The late-night sketch show dug into the former reality star on Saturday's cold open, mocking his relatively small inauguration crowd size compared to the hundreds of thousands of women (and men and children) who took to the streets the next day in protest.
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Will and should win: Last Week Tonight Splitting up the Variety Talk category into two separate races in 2014 was a big deal for shows that wound up in this new category, as any sketch show that wasn't SNL previously had almost no shot.
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The iconoclastic rapper's relationship with the sketch show of record has been contentious — consider "Fuck SNL and the whole cast / tell 'em Yeezy said they can kiss my whole ass," from 2010's "Power" — but it's led to some of his most memorable public moments.
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She's become a fixture on the online controversy circuit, garnering headlines not for the last season of her sketch show, but for accusations that she stole jokes (which she denies) and for criticism of comments about rape from one of her TV show's writers.
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Under her "regime" (as Janeane Garofalo called it in the New Yorker profile of Fey), the show underwent a major facelift, transitioning from a testosterone-fueled clubhouse to a balanced, yet still tastefully crude, sketch show that continues to win Emmys and Writers Guild Awards.
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It's a question that has hovered over nearly every new episode of "Saturday Night Live" this season: How will this sketch show, which sits at the intersection of pop culture and politics, handle the latest accusation of sexual misconduct by a prominent, powerful man?
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The NBC sketch show just pulled back the curtain on the Hollywood magic with footage showing the amazing and nerve-racking task of transforming Emmy-winner Kate McKinnon from Attorney General Jeff Sessions to her botched mermaid character, Shud, over one commercial break between scenes.
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Standing in a green room as the mayor prepared for the interview, he and Jost joked about how life had led each of them to this moment: One as a top writer and performer on the country's premier comedy sketch show and another running to be President.
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The sketch show joked about the appeal of the GOP presidential frontrunner on this weekend's episode, by tossing a bunch of its cast in a fake campaign ad, where between their daily racist lives of book-burning and fear-mongering they talked soothingly of Trump's "winning" style.
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Addressing the gathered audience in New York City at the start of the sketch show, Damon, 48, said his father used to tell him and his brother Kyle Damon, 51, as children that they could watch SNL if they could stay awake until the late start time.
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The 29-year-old rapper acted as host and musical guest for this weekend's episode (his second time doing both), but one of the greatest moments from the night had to be his imagining of various "beefs" he had behind the scenes at the sketch show.
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And, to be fair, the pilot is, as the kids say, "a lot," giving the false impression that it's a sketch show, like "Drunk History," a hot take on the poet as a mouthy, death-obsessed feminist badass, scored to songs by Billie Eilish and Mitski.
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Between your show and Black Lady Sketch Show, The New Negroes, and Random Acts of Flyness, it feels like we're suddenly having a golden age of Black variety TV. Do you think there's a reason all of these shows started to crop up around the same time?
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It feels sympatico with Boots Riley's "Sorry to Bother You" in its critique of entwined capitalist and racist structures, and the way it makes the horrific funny recalls the new era of social thriller being ushered in by the sketch show creator-turned auteur Jordan Peele.
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The show is performed and written by Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane, who work with the writer and director Sam Lingham, the film director and editor Max Miller, and the sound designer and composer Tom Armstrong to present this fast-paced, multimedia sketch show.
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Last night Bernie took a break from the New Hampshire campaign trail to make a brief cameo on the sketch show, where he appeared in a short-but-good skit about a rich man (played by Larry David) who demands a spot on the lifeboat of a sinking steamship.
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Most comedy fans know Wain from his work on the 19943s MTV sketch show The State, a member of the comedy trio Stella, and the director of the cult classic movie Wet Hot American Summer as well as its Netflix prequel and sequel, in which he also starred.
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The first trailer for Jordan Peele's upcoming horror movie surprised the hell out of lots of people, probably because "comedian Jordan Peele writes a horror movie" isn't the headline you might've expected to describe his first solo project since the end of his Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele.
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Sadly, nobody bothered to write them any actual jokes, leading to a lengthy spell of miserable television appearances that peaked with Horne and Corden, a sketch show so bad the best recurring punchline was the big man raising his T-shirt to reveal, yep, you guessed it, his belly.
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The two also contributed to the 1964 edition of a show called "The Oxford Revue," which was noticed by David Frost, who soon offered both Mr. Jones and Mr. Palin jobs writing for "The Frost Report," a television sketch show that had its premiere in 1966 on the BBC.
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The single sounds like a remake of a new jack swing Bobby Brown song, and that retro-ness is explicitly brought out in the music video Mars made with Cardi B (featured on a new remix), which recreates the stage and aesthetics of the '90s Fox sketch show In Living Color.
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While both Jost and Che have proved their comedy chops time and again on the iconic sketch show, given Hollywood's current climate surrounding the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, it seems as though NBC could have given any of its female stars a chance to shine on television's biggest night.
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The league was forced to try to mix things up when in 1992 the sketch show "In Living Color" staged an alternative halftime show on Fox that drew more than 20 million viewers and an estimated 10 rating points away from the official performance by Gloria Estefan at the game.
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The streaming service offered a sneak peek trailer of the comedian's new sketch show, which aims to "take a break" from the seriousness of the news cycle, an area which Wolf is very familiar as a former writer for both Late Night with Seth Meyers and the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
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At eighteen Matafeo was the best newcomer at the 2010 New Zealand International Comedy Festival, and it wasn't long before she was cracking jokes on TV screens: first, as a presenter on (now defunct) channel U, before going on to be lead writer and star in the New Zealand sketch show Funny Girls.
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For everyone else, there's a new comedy gig economy built on a hodgepodge of podcast appearances, sketch show cameos, commercials, more podcast appearances, indie-film appearances, script work, web shorts, ensemble TV roles—and, if all goes well, a WTF With Marc Maron appearance in which everyone bonds over their failed Lorne Michaels auditions.
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Writer-director Greta Gerwig was nominated for Lady Bird, making her only the fifth woman in Oscar history to receive a Best Director nomination, while first-time director Jordan Peele, known for his work on the racially frank Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele, was also nominated for his subversive horror-comedy Get Out.
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With that in mind, here are my favorites from 2017: Jordan Peele's directorial debut is a riff on Ira Levin's 1972 novel The Stepford Wives, but with a new twist: just as he often did in the well-loved Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele, he draws on familiar genre beats, then injects racial tensions.
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" As embodied by Keegan-Michael Key, on the Comedy Central sketch show "Key & Peele," Luther gave voice to the coolheaded President's inner fury over everything from the Tea Party ("Oh, don't even get me started on these motherfuckers") to birtherism ("I have a hot-diggity-doggity-mamase-mamasa-mamakusa birth certificate, you dumb-ass crackers!
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Key & Peele Sure, you've seen stars Keegan-Michael Key (a best supporting actor nominee this year) and Jordan Peele pop up in everything from sitcoms and the MTV VMAs to the White House Correspondents Dinner, but none of those appearances hold a candle to the insane, creative and downright hysterical episodes of their sketch show.
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His character, David Ghantt — a real-life felon who took part in an ostentatious crime in the late 1990s — is rationalizing his own miscreant deeds for the audience of "Masterminds," a would-be memorable piece of popular culture that applies the TV-sketch-show-surreal-farce approach to a based-on-true-events caper picture.
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Thede created Black Lady Sketch Show and stars in several sketches per episode, but she's also assembled a killer cast of sketch comedy players, including Ashley Nicole Black of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee fame, Quinta Brunson of "lots of great YouTube videos" fame, and Gabrielle Dennis of "she's mostly done dramatic work!" fame.
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When Hannibal was hosting a sketch show on Comedy Central, Mike was one of the musical guests; he also became something of a podcast savant, co-hosting on topics from wrestling to animated TV, as well as his own solo show, Secret Skin, which interviews public figures about the nature of public life and creativity.
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On the second and last day of RuPaul's DragCon 2017, which took place in NYC for the first time this weekend, the audience was hungry for the former RuPaul's Drag Race season 7 contestant's dark sense of humor and eager to hear about her upcoming sketch show, The Trixie and Katya Show, premiering on November 15 on VICELAND.
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These included "Inside Amy Schumer" (which won the accommodating Schumer an Emmy for best variety sketch show); "Transparent" (which won its creator, Jill Soloway, an Emmy for directing); and the Golden Globe comedy nominees "Orange Is the New Black" (created by Jenji Kohan), "Girls" (the signature work of Lena Dunham) and "Jane the Virgin" (developed by Jennie Snyder Urman).
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She's been extremely funny in a dizzying number of ways: quick online character work ("art wife" but "workout mom" should be enough evidence to give her an IFC sketch show), podcasts, her weekly show at Club Cumming, but her finest showcase so far is her cabaret act where she plays a preposterously cocky chanteuse with go-for-broke showmanship.
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It was announced that among the big names that will be hosting and performing on the sketch show in the coming weeks, including Sandra Oh and Tame Impala on March 30, as well as Kit Harington and Sara Bareilles on April 6, the seven-member group will be performing on Saturday Night Live on April 13 for the first time.
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"Huge gaffe on New Year's Eve," The actor and stand-up comedian rose to the national spotlight in the late 1990s after starring in movies like "Half Baked" and "You've Got Mail," but he is most known for his comedy sketch show, "Chappelle's Show," which ran from 2003-2006 on Comedy Central and tackled issues ranging from racism to politics.
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In Season 6 of this quirky sketch show, which is now streaming in its entirety, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein play a couple who attend a music festival via drone; goths who decide to go to the beach; and, in one surprisingly touching episode, a married couple who divorce and find that the grass isn't always greener on the hipster side of the fence.
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"Toy Story 4" (June 21): Forget Julian Edelman — Jordan Peele was this year's Super Bowl M.V.P. He appeared in an ad for his forthcoming CBS All Access remake of "The Twilight Zone," rolled out another spot for his sophomore directorial effort, "Us," and rejoined his old sketch-show pal Keegan-Michael Key to voice one of the stuffed animals who torment Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) in this amusing trailer for Pixar's sequel.
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" From there, he fell further into animation, eventually landing work on South Park and with his own show on Adult Swim, China, IL. Neely thought up the idea for Harg Nallin' while working on China, IL. "As you probably know," says Neely, "Adult Swim is not your usual television network, and so I was able to just approach [Adult Swim Executive Vice President] Mike Lazzo and be like 'I was thinking about doing an animated sketch show, 11 minutes, just real fast with lots of music, like an animated SNL.' and he was like 'Make six!
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