Sentences with phrase «variety sketch show»

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.

Not exact matches

Lyndsay also wrote, directed, produced and starred in The Lyndsay Hailey Variety Hour, an ensemble sketch variety show which had a residency at The Second City Up Comedy Club in Chicago.

Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows of the time to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers overseen by Whiteman himself (including a larger - than - life rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue»)-- all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson and beautifully shot in early Technicolor.

With the legendary variety show now in the rear view mirror, the duo hope to ditch the silly sketch costumes, expand their repertoire, and evolve as actors.

The variety show will include stand - up, sketch comedy and music with appearances from John Mulaney, Kumail Nanjiani, Sacha Baron Cohen, Michelle Wolf, Michael Che and the Muppets.

He left the show in 2008 and did a variety of other roles, but the duo eventually landed their own show on Comedy Central, the sketch comedy show Key & Peele.

OUTSTANDING VARIETY SKETCH SERIES Drunk History Nathan for You Portlandia The President Show Saturday Night Live Tracey Ullman's Show

Saturday Night Live won for the sketch comedy / variety category, further encouraging the show to continue making easy Trump jokes every week, and Flint beat out some tough competition in the long form original category to win Lifetime a WGA award.

Both segments show the directors using a variety of previsualization techniques to first sketch out, then shoot reference footage of each scene in detail, with stunt performers standing in for the stars.

Sketches, regular characters, cameos of famous people, one - liners, and running gags were blended together in a non-stop, fast - paced show entirely devoted to comedy — no singers and no dancers, which were the norm on variety shows of the period.

The exhibition will show also the variety of the School's graphic work, from preliminary sketches through to book illustrations, as well as sculptures.

A single sketch would take him approximately two hours (as we are informed by notes on the back of one of the works), and would be made on paper pinned into the lid of his painting box — also on show in the gallery — which contained bladders of pigments, brushes, rags, a palette knife and a variety of strengthened laminated papers, prepared with a range of coloured backgrounds.»