Sentences with phrase «sketch comedy tv»

But take a page from Bob Odenkirk — a Naperville hometown hero and co-creator of the 1990's sketch comedy TV smash hit Mr. Show — and try to roll with the absurdities.
That's why it's so exciting to hear that he'll be returning as one of his most beloved characters from his days back on SCTV, the Second City sketch comedy TV series.
Earning back its budget several times over, the much - watched, much - quoted film quickly etched a place in the cultural zeitgeist alongside Animal House and The Blues Brothers as modern marvels taking funnymen from «Saturday Night Live» to heights and distances that weekly sketch comedy TV couldn't.

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NBC is already leaning on its stable of TV stars to create some of Seeso's original content, including a variety sketch show produced and hosted by Parks star Amy Poehler and a «fantasy roleplaying» comedy show hosted by Community creator Dan Harmon.
The breakthrough in Sally's own TV career began as corpsing Travel Tavern receptionist Sophie opposite Steve Coogan in I'm Alan Partridge, later followed by her all - female comedy sketch show Smack the Pony with Fiona Allen and Doon Mackichan.
Between us we had pretty much every comedy sub-genre covered: writing, acting, stand - up, sitcom, sketch show, panel show, TV, radio, stage and film.
Jones finally got to act as well as write when he was cast in Fox's sketch comedy show Mad TV in 1995.
Too often, though, Van lends credence to the theory that TV sketch comedy's primary usefulness isn't in appointment viewing, but in feeding the voracious appetite for viral videos online.
Doubtless banking off the success of these efforts, the WB network launched an SNL - style sketch comedy program, Blue Collar TV, in 2004 — to which Engvall often contributed material.
He and old friend Kevin McDonald helped to form the sketch comedy group and TV series The Kids in the Hall, so named after a Jack Benny joke.
«The show must go on,» Craig Robinson told TV Guide Magazine before presenting the award for Best Sketch Comedy / Alternative Comedy Series.
Born in New York City, Peele, 38, is best known for «Key & Peele,» the TV sketch comedy emporium co-starring Keegan - Michael Key, like Peele an alum of the Chicago comedy and improvisation circuit.
Fans of the late TV sketch comedy show «Key & Peele» know how deftly Peele (his partner on the show was Keegan - Michael Key) plays with fire.
Just as Peele and partner Keegan - Michael Key found clever ways of dealing with racial issues on their sketch - comedy TV show, this movie turns clichés and social metaphors inside out.
He trained with the Second City improvisational troupe in Toronto and in the mid -»70s earned a cult following on «SCTV,» an ensemble sketch - comedy TV series that also featured Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis and the late John Candy.
The son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, he first gained fame with his acclaimed TV sketch - comedy series, The Ben Stiller Show, which launched such performers as Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk.
This is his first major TV series gig since his stint on Fox's sketch comedy series In Living Color, which helped launch his movie career.
After paying his dues on the comedy circuit, he was invited to join the ensemble cast of the Wayans Brothers» TV sketch series «In Living Color» alongside Jim Carrey and Jennifer Lopez.
Better known for his TV comedy sketches with Keegan - Michael Key or most recently the action - comedy, Keanu, Jordan Peele makes his directorial debut with a genre you wouldn't ordinarily expect from him.
He'd watched his father fill in downtime by writing, so that's what he did, coming up with his two shorts and sketches for an Irish TV comedy called Your Bad Self.
Showalter is best known for his roles in sketch comedy franchises like The State, Stella and Wet Hot American Summer, where he constantly mocked the tropes of film and TV while honing a tone so arch it was like having his elbow perpetually pressed into your side.
When: July 17th Why: Amy Schumer has been making people laugh for years, both on stage and on her Comedy Central TV sketch show, so it was only a matter of time before she made the jump to the big screen.
MacGruber (May 21)-- A mildly amusing 10 - minute television comedy sketch parody of a somewhat entertaining»80s TV show gets stretched out into a feature - length comedy.
Hollywood hard man Bruce Willis had U.S. TV viewers laughing on Wednesday (02Mar11) when he appeared in a comedy sketch on The Late Show with David...
Being a huge fan of comedy, I have studied the greatest sketches of Saturday Night Live, MAD TV, Key and Peele, Monty Python, Hugh and Laurie, The Three Stooges, Groucho Marx, and the kids» comedy sketch show All That.
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