Warner Bros. Animation made two sketch comedy shows, including "Mad" and "Right Now Kapow". Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their product from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit") while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character or situation.
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Sketch comedy | Introduction
It comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long It comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Sketch comedy comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Sketch comedy comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.
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It is the third episode of the of the American animated television series "Ugly Americans", and the seventeenth overall episode of the series
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July 14, 2011
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who directed it?
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Aaron Augenblick and series creator Devin Clark
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any character from it?
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Grimes, Mark Lilly , Callie Maggotbone, Randall
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where was this episode aired?
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United States
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where is the former director from?
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Superjail!, Wonder Showzen and Golden Age
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has the first show been broadcasted internationally?
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It has been broadcast in Canada
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Television series
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Television series
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what's its genre?
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Sketch comedy
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Sketch comedy comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and sketched down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, such improvisation is not necessarily involved in sketch comedy. An individual comedy sketch is a brief scene or vignette of the type formerly used in vaudeville, and now used widely in comedy and variety shows, talk shows and some children's television series (such as "Sesame Street").
Sketch comedy | Introduction
Warner Bros. Animation made two sketch comedy shows, including "Mad" and "Right Now Kapow". Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their product from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit") while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character or situation.
Sketch comedy | Introduction
Sketch comedy programs differ from sitcoms in that they do not basically feature recurring characters (though some characters and scenarios may be repeated) and often draw upon current events and emphasize satire over character development. Sketch comedy was pioneered by Sid Caesar, whose "Your Show of Shows" debuted in 1950 and established many conventions of the genre. American sketch comedy reached a later peak in the mid-1970s with the debut han "Saturday Night Live", originally a variety program but soon devoted mostly to sketches. In the UK, two of the more successful examples are "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Little Britain".
Television comedy | Sketch comedy
Every show consists of several comedy sketches that vary in length and can contain several sketches or even one full length sketch.
Funny or Die Presents | Description
Stand-up comedy is a mode of comic performance in which the performer addresses the audience directly, usually speaking in their own person rather than as a dramatic character.
Comedy | Stand-up comedy
Little-known comedians, alone or in groups, professionals or amateurs, may appear in a sketch on the show. Each candidate is evaluated by a panel of judges, known as the jury, and by the audience. Candidates who obtain a sufficient score may come back with a new sketch. Each sketch is written by the candidate (with or without other writers) about a theme relating to current events chosen several days before the recording from a list. Comedians who have performed more than 10 times (known as "pensionnaires", "residents") do not get to choose from the list; their theme is imposed by Laurent Ruquier.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Format
In a modern sense, comedy (from the , "kōmōidía") is a genre of fiction that refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, books or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict.
Comedy | Introduction
It became noted for dealing with issues like racism, sexual perversity, and drug use.
American humor | Sketch comedy and variety shows
Character comedy is a method or genre in which a comedian performs as though they were a character created by the comedian themselves. A good deal of comedians have enjoyed fame from character comedy.
Character comedy | Introduction
"Saturday Night Live" found itself in controversy when a sketch was performed, imitating politician David Paterson for both his political abilities and his blindness. This brought up the idea of two central forms of humour that comedies will use: one prioritizes the joke itself and how it generates laughter from an audience, while the other prioritizes the personal characteristics of whom an actor is impersonating.
Television comedy | Audience interpretations
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolish (as in slapstick) or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian. A popular saying, variously quoted but generally attributed to Ed Wynn, is, "A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny", which draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona. Since the 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called alternative comedy, has grown in popularity with its more offbeat and experimental style.
Comedian | Introduction
This is a list of notable sketch comedy groups by country.
List of sketch comedy groups | Introduction
Sketch comedy has its origins in vaudeville and music hall, where many brief, but humorous, acts were strung together to form a larger programme. In Britain, it moved to stage performances by Cambridge Footlights, such as "Beyond the Fringe" and "A Clump of Plinths" (which evolved into "Cambridge Circus"), to radio, with such shows as "It's That Man Again" and "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", then to television, with such shows as "Not Only... But Also", "Monty Python's Flying Circus," "Not the Nine O'Clock News" (and its successor "Alas Smith and Jones"), and "A Bit of Fry and Laurie".
Sketch comedy | History
In season 4, the show's final sketch was performed by a "historic" "pensionnaire" who is not scored. If a comedian does not get the required 60 points, they can be saved. This happened differently depending on the season.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Shows
A sitcom, clipping for situational comedy (situation comedy in the U.S.), is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situational comedy television programme may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the programme's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track.
Sitcom | Introduction
Comedy may be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humor, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered. These classifications overlap, and most comedians can fit into multiple genres. For example, deadpan comics often fall into observational comedy, or into black comedy or blue comedy to contrast the morbidity, or offensiveness of the joke with a lack of emotion.
Comedic genres | Introduction
Comedy may be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humor, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered. The different forms of comedy often overlap, and most comedy can fit into multiple genres. Some of the subgenres of comedy are farce, comedy of manners, burlesque, and satire. Some comedy apes certain cultural forms: for instance, parody and satire often imitate the conventions of the genre they are parodying or satirizing. For example, in the United States, parodies of newspapers and television news include "The Onion", and "The Colbert Report"; in Australia, shows such as "Kath & Kim," "Utopia", and "Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell" perform the same role.
Comedy | Forms
Comedy is a genre of literary works that have happy endings, in contrast to tragedies that have unhappy endings. Comedy may also refer to:
Comedy (disambiguation) | Introduction
This is a list of notable sketch comedy television series by country.
List of sketch comedy TV series | Introduction
Lists of comedies cover comedy performances in different media and genres.
Lists of comedies | Introduction
Some audience members may have similar views about certain comedic aspects of shows, while others will take different perspectives. This also relates to developing new social norms, sometimes acting as the medium that introduces these transitions.
Television comedy | Introduction
Uses such as these have provided a basis for comedy writers to exploit this juxtaposition through double entendre.
Dick (slang) | Introduction
Black comedy refers to a genre of comedy that deals humorously with serious or disturbing subject matter. It may also refer to: Dark Comedy may also refer to:
Black comedy (disambiguation) | Introduction
A talk show sendup that dramatized counterfactual historical situations. Debuted January 21, 1978.
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1977–78 | What if?
Parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them. Other forms of comedy include screwball comedy, which derives its humor largely from bizarre, surprising (and improbable) situations or characters, and black comedy, which is characterized by a form of humor that includes darker aspects of human behavior or human nature. Similarly scatological humor, sexual humor, and race humor create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways. A comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society (usually upper-class society) and uses humor to parody or satirize the behavior and mannerisms of its members.
Comedy | Introduction
Performance Production Design
Pure Comedy | Personnel
During the Middle Ages, the term "comedy" became synonymous with satire, and later with humour in general.
Comedy | Etymology
A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. The first successful comedy-variety show might be Milton Berle's, followed by Ernie Kovacs and Sid Caesar. Jack Benny moved to television in the mid-1950s. Variety shows also featured Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope and Dean Martin mixing stand-up comedy, sketches and musical numbers for true variety. Later successes include The Carol Burnett Show and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) first aired on October 11, 1975, with George Carlin as its host. It was created by Canadian Lorne Michaels.
American humor | Sketch comedy and variety shows
This normally involves more experiential, or observational reporting, e.g. Alexei Sayle, Daniel Tosh and Malcolm Hardee. As far as content is concerned, comedians such as Tommy Tiernan, Des Bishop, Kevin Hart and Joan Rivers draw on their background to poke fun at themselves, while others such as Jon Stewart, and Ben Elton have very strong political and cultural undertones.
Comedian | Introduction
"All That" features original short comedic sketches that parody contemporary culture. Although the show had a team of writers, the cast were encouraged to help contribute their own ideas for characters and other segments. Improv and ad-libbing were used to help the cast and writers find the right tone for a certain skit. The following is a short list of some notable sketches that aired during the show's tenure.
All That | Sketches
Four or six comedians are introduced to the audience, who then divide into pairs. Each act performs a selection of their own material that their allocated partner must then perform in the latter half of the show, allowing the audience to see each comedian deconstructing each other’s acts.
Joke Thieves | Format
Stand-up comedy is a comedic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them through a microphone. The performer is commonly known as a comic, stand-up comic, comedian, comedienne, stand-up comedian, or simply a stand-up. Comedians give the illusion that they are dialoguing, but in actuality, they are monologuing a grouping of humorous stories, jokes and one-liners, typically called a shtick, routine, act, or set. Some stand-up comedians use props, music or magic tricks to enhance their acts. Stand-up comedians perform quasi-autobiographical and fictionalized extensions of their offstage selves.
Stand-up comedy | Introduction
O'Neill said of his comedy, "We like to set it up where the audience likes to think where the sketch is going and then we turn the switch on them."
The Chris and Paul Show | Comedy style
At the start of the sketch, Rowan Atkinson's character tells Richard Curtis' character he's "got a joke". He goes on to explain, "It's one of those ones where I ask a question and you say 'I don't know, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot'." Rowan begins the joke by saying, "I say, I say, I say, what is the secret of great comedy?" Richard replies by literally saying, "I don't know, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot." After laughing at his own wit, Richard tells the annoyed Rowan that he'll "do it again." Rowan repeats the question and Richard replies, "I don't know.
Joke (sketch) | Synopsis
Just as within any art form, stand-up has multiple genres and styles, with their own formats, unwritten rules, and target audience. Some of these include:
Stand-up comedy | Stand-up genres
A comedian is an entertainer who performs in a comic manner, especially by telling jokes. Comedian or comedians may also refer to:
Comedian (disambiguation) | Introduction
Cringe comedy is a specific genre of comedy that derives humor from social awkwardness. Often a cringe comedy will have an air of a mockumentary and revolve around a serious setting, such as a workplace, to lend the comedy a sense of reality. The protagonists are typically egotists who overstep the boundaries of political correctness and break social norms. Then the comedy will attack the protagonist by not letting them become aware of their self-centered view, or by making them oblivious to the ego-deflation that the comedy deals them. Sometimes, however, an unlikable protagonist may not suffer any consequences, which violates people's moral expectations, and also makes the audience cringe.
Cringe comedy | Introduction
Popular examples of television programs that employ this genre of comedy include:
Cringe comedy | Examples
A high school theater troupe attempts to open its audience's eyes and tackle big subjects during a very self-aggrandizing play.
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2014–15 | High school theater show
Sketches are broken up, and often use backing music which also stops and starts along with the reading of the column. This leads to a surreal, Dadaist juxtaposition of sketches, with jokes being set up at the beginning of the episode and the punchline being delivered at a random point before the end.
The Sunday Format | Introduction
Episodes feature short fast-paced sketches and traditionally ended with a sketch featuring the entire cast, and many of these have become famous among fans of the show. Some examples include:
The Sketch Show | Notable sketches
Such sketches made during the 1970s and 1980s were "If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind" and the sequel "Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?", "The Groove Tube", "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", "The Kentucky Fried Movie" and its sequel "Amazon Women on the Moon", and Monty Python's "And Now for Something Completely Different" and "The Meaning of Life". More recent sketch films include "The Underground Comedy Movie", "InAPPropriate Comedy" and "Movie 43".
Sketch comedy | Films
Stand-up comedians are selected for bookings on the basis of how "clean" or "dirty" their act is.
Stand-up comedy | Stand-up circuits
Subject matter includes pronouns, names, and introductions.
Standup Comedian | Intro
One or more comedy bits followed the monologue. Following the monologue, some comedy bits (such as those based on video clips) were presented from the monologue stage. Following the first commercial break, additional comedy sketches were typically presented from the desk area. Some sketches were original and appeared only once. Occasionally an additional sketch would air between the first and second guest.
Conan (talk show) | Sketches and comedy bits
Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era. The phrase has had different connotations in different contexts: in the UK, it was used to describe content that was an "alternative" to the mainstream of live comedy, which often involved racist and sexist material. In other contexts, it is the nature of the form that is "alternative", avoiding reliance on a standardised structure of a sequence of jokes with punch lines. Patton Oswalt has defined it as "comedy where the audience has no pre-set expectations about the crowd, and vice versa.
Alternative comedy | Introduction
Mainly observational comedy and satire.
Kenneth Kimuli | Genre of Comedy
The word "comedy" is derived from the Classical Greek κωμῳδία, which is a compound either of "κῶμος" (revel) or "κώμη" (village) and "ᾠδή" (singing): it is possible that "κῶμος" itself is derived from "κώμη", and originally meant a village revel. The adjective "comic" (Greek κωμικός), which strictly means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage, generally confined to the sense of "laughter-provoking". The word came into modern usage through the Latin "comoedia "and Italian "commedia" and has, over time, passed through various shades of meaning.
Comedy (drama) | Etymology
Northrop Frye described the comic genre as a drama that pits two societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. He depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old", "The Anatomy of Criticism". 1957, but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation. A later view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes; in this sense, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse to ruses which engender very dramatic.
Comedy (drama) | History
This is an unpaid, five-to-ten-minute time slot (during the emcee's time slot of a professional show) that is essentially an audition to get booked for paid gigs.
Stand-up comedy | Guest set
American sketch comedy series such as "Saturday Night Live", "In Living Color", "Almost Live!" (and its successor "Up Late NW"), "MADtv", and "SCTV" also contain variety show elements, particularly musical performances and comedy sketches. The most obvious difference between shows such as "Saturday Night Live" and traditional variety shows is the lack of a single lead host (or hosts) and a large ensemble cast. "SNL" has used different guest hosts ever since its inception.
Variety show | Sketch comedy shows
The cast of the sketches often include notable celebrities, including:
Funny or Die Presents | Cast
Stand-up humour later had mixed fortunes on the small screen, often shunted away to the small hours or as part of a larger entertainment extravaganza.
Television comedy | Stand-up
Each round, the contestants performed in a different genre of comedy and, unlike most competition television series, there were no eliminations till the last round. Comedic genres the contestants performed in included anecdotal, topical, observational, improv, sketch, comedy of terrors, and alternative comedy. Before each round, the contestants were mentored in each genre by one of the judges, who is touted as the expert of that specific type of comedy. The contestants had a week to prepare fresh material and practice before performing that set live in front of an audience and the judges. After their performance, each contestant was given a score between 1 and 10, by both the audience and all the judges (except for the expert for that round).
Comicstaan | Selection process and format Season 2
A sex comedy of various raunchy comedic sketches.
Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses? | Plot
The cast has periodically changed over the years, serving as a springboard for many of its performers to success in other television programs or films. SNL continues to air weekly. In the early 1990s there started to be more sketch comedy shows that concerned racial issues or intentionally had a diverse cast. An early example of this being "In Living Color", initially produced by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Despite the original cast being majority African American the show is most remembered for introducing the Caucasian Jim Carrey and Puerto Rican Jennifer Lopez to a wider audience. In the 2000s "Chappelle's Show" began and became a popular, if controversial, variety series.
American humor | Sketch comedy and variety shows
The Class sketch is a comedy sketch first broadcast in an episode of David Frost's satirical comedy programme "The Frost Report" on 7 April 1966. It has been described as a "genuinely timeless sketch, ingeniously satirising the British class system" and in 2005 was voted number 40 in Channel Four's "Britain's 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches". It was written by Marty Feldman and John Law, and features John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbett.
Class sketch | Introduction
Daily shows contain four sketches, except from 1 April 2013 to 28 June 2013 when, because of changes in France 2's schedule, they only contained three. During each sketch, the four members of the jury may press at any time a "stop" button, called a buzzer. If two judges do this, the sketch is interrupted and the comedian is not scored. If the end of the sketch is reached, the comedian is scored: every member of the jury gives a score between 0 and 20. These are added to the average score given by the studio audience. The comedian must obtain a total of 60/100 (an average of 12/20) to be able to return several days later.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Shows
Improvisational comedy is a genre that features actors creating dialogue while in the process of acting. It has a history of prominence in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Before appearing on television, comedy programs were already present on the radio. Several of these programs, including "The Day Today" and "The Mary Whitehouse Experience", eventually transferred over to television. "Whose Line is it Anyway?" was created in 1988 by The Comedy Store Players, Mike Myers' improvisation students in London. It began broadcasting in the UK before expanding to the US, with Drew Carey starring in the American version until its cancellation.
Television comedy | Improvisational comedy
Mixed Doubles is a comedy sketch group.
Mixed Doubles (comedy) | Introduction
Hack is a term used primarily in stand-up comedy, but also sketch comedy, improv comedy, and comedy writing to refer to a joke or premise for a joke that is considered obvious, has been frequently used by comedians in the past, and/or is blatantly copied from its original author. Alternatively, it may refer to a comedian or performance group that uses hack material or similarly unoriginal devices in their act. Since comedians and people who work with comedians are typically exposed to many more jokes than the general public, they may recognize a topic, joke or performer as hack before the general public does; as a result, even performers who do well on stage may be considered hacks by their peers.
Hack (comedy) | Introduction
Character sketches of this sort are also frequently found in journalism and regionalist humor (e.g., sketches of "Big John" or "the country rube" or "the wise Squire"). Each of these attempts to delineate a model of a type (a category of person) rather than a realistic person.
Character sketch | Introduction
Romantic comedy is a genre that blends romance and comedy. Romantic Comedy may also refer to :
Romantic comedy (disambiguation) | Introduction
Two comedians perform a series of sketches in a theatre for a group of Communist Party officials, including a critic censor.
The Unfinished Comedy | Plot
A comedy album is an audio recording of comedic material from a comedian or group of comedians, usually performed either live or in a studio. Comedy albums may feature skits, humorous songs, and/or live recording of stand-up comedy performances, but the most common type of comedy albums are stand up, and are often made in conjunction with a DVD with recorded video of a particular comedy show.
Comedy album | Introduction
A Gilbert Gottfried and Denny Dillon sketch. Debuted November 15, 1980.
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1980–81 | What's It All About
This is a list of theatrical comedies.
List of theatrical comedies | Introduction
"(sorted alphabetically by surname)"
List of comedians | Comedy writers
A comedian is one who entertains through comedy, such as jokes and other forms of humour. Following is a list of comedians, comedy groups, and comedy writers.
List of comedians | Introduction
Comedy is a story that tells about a series of funny, or comical events, intended to make the audience laugh. It is a very open genre, and thus crosses over with many other genres on a frequent basis.
List of genres | Comedy
Sketchorama is a radio show, a product of The Comedy Unit, commissioned by the BBC for Radio 4. It features a rotating cast of comedic sketch groups who perform in front of a live audience. The groups are introduced by a host comedian, originally Humphrey Ker, now Thom Tuck. The show is currently in its third season. The British Comedy Guide describes it as "a format for Radio 4 which offers the same popular showcase dynamic as stand-up shows, but purely for comedy sketch groups. Sketchorama aims to bring hidden gems and established live acts to the airwaves offering a truly distinctive and ambitious show."
Sketchorama | Introduction
Comedy is entertainment consisting of jokes intended to make an audience laugh. For ancient Greeks and Romans a comedy was a stage-play with a happy ending. In the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone. In this sense Dante used the term in the title of his poem, the "Divine Comedy" (Italian: "Divina Commedia"). The phenomena connected with laughter and that which provokes it have been carefully investigated by psychologists and agreed upon. The predominating characteristics are incongruity or contrast in the object, and shock or emotional seizure on the part of the subject.
Comedy (drama) | Introduction
Saturday Night Live (also known simply as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast as with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show.
Saturday Night Live | Introduction
The fourth concept is called "Rotating Stage", using a stage that rotates over both the x and y axes.
Standup Comedian | Rejected concepts from the Comedy Special
A parody of the reality TV show "The Bachelor", in which a single man must find true love with a contestant of his choosing.
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2014–15 | "Hunk sketches"
Seinfeld says: "Most contemporary comedy is profane, outraged and disposable" but his philosophy is to give the best that he has.
Stand-up comedy | Training and improvisation
City comedy, also known as citizen comedy, is a genre of comedy in the English early modern theatre.
City comedy | Introduction
A list of comedy television series by country of origin.
List of comedy television series | Introduction
Original comedy is an entirely original event in which competitors write a comic story, the structure of which is entirely up to them. The story often involves a main character and several different side characters which the competitor will "pop" in and out of quickly. No introduction is required and no props or manuscript are allowed. This is a high school event with a time limit of 8 minutes.
Individual events (speech) | Original comedy
Romantic comedy is a popular genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love.
Comedy | Introduction
A majority of the show is made up of single sketches. These sketches are unrelated from the main sketch and usually resolved by the end of the scene. In rare occasions, the sketch may link with another sketch later on. The length of the sketches can range from very short (~10 s) to quite long (4–5 min).
Capping Show | Sketches
Insult comedy is a comedy genre in which the act consists mainly of offensive insults directed at the performer's audience or other performers. Typical targets for insult include individuals in the show's audience, the town hosting the performance, or the subject of a roast. An insult comedian often maintains a competitive and interactive relationship with his or her audience. The style has been described as "festive abuse". The style can be distinguished from an act based on satire, or political humor. Insult comedy is often used to deflect or silence hecklers even when the rest of the show is not focused around it.
Insult comedy | Introduction
The show culminates with the comedian deciding which of the two remaining suitors will go on to go out with them on a second date.
Who Wants to Date a Comedian? | Format
It has also been held that the feeling of superiority is an essential factor: thus Thomas Hobbes speaks of laughter as a "sudden glory." Modern investigators have paid much attention to the origin both of laughter and of smiling, as well as the development of the "play instinct" and its emotional expression. Much comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations, but there are many recognized genres of comedy. Satire and political satire use ironic comedy used to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of humor.
Comedy (drama) | Introduction
But, as with all sketch shows (especially improvised ones), the output is hit or miss."
Rixty Minutes | Reception
The word "comedy" is derived from the Classical Greek κωμῳδία "kōmōidía", which is a compound of κῶμος "kômos" (revel) and ᾠδή "ōidḗ" (singing; ode). The adjective "comic" (Greek κωμικός "kōmikós)," which strictly means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage, generally confined to the sense of "laughter-provoking". Of this, the word came into modern usage through the Latin "comoedia" and Italian "commedia" and has, over time, passed through various shades of meaning. The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the word "comedy" to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average (where tragedy was an imitation of men better than the average).
Comedy | Etymology
Richard Zoglin considers the term "observational comedy" misleading because it is not "about politics or social issues or the comedian's own autobiography, but simply about everyday life."
Observational comedy | Criticism of the term
There are many recurring comedy sketches or parodies on the program.
Le Show | Comedy segments
Rather than acting out sketches in front of a live studio audience, the sketches were prerecorded with the audience reaction usually used in lieu of a laugh track. According to Neal Brennan in the season-two DVD commentary, the production team never edits in prerecorded laughs, with the exception of the "Dude's Night Out" sketch due to the lack of reaction from the audience.
Chappelle's Show | Notable sketches
Comedy: Any program devoted primarily to light entertainment with scripted dialogue (i.e. sketch comedy, sitcom, parodies, stand-up, etc.).
International Emmy Award for Best Comedy Series | Rules & Regulations
A comedy troupe is a group of comedians and associated personnel who work together to perform comedy as entertainment. The term is often used interchangeably with comedy group, and the troupe may specialize in a specific genre or style of comedy. Some examples of comedy troupes include the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, the Second City, the Firesign Theatre, Monty Python, the Kids in the Hall, the Mighty Boosh, the Tenderloins, the Hollow Men, Asperger's Are Us ,Kummeli and Senario.
Comedy troupe | Introduction
This is a list of television series in the comedy-drama genre.
List of comedy-drama television series | Introduction
Fantasy comedy or comic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is primarily humorous in intent and tone. Typically set in imaginary worlds, fantasy comedy often includes puns on and parodies of other works of fantasy.
Fantasy comedy | Introduction
Toshi: You're not an American! Taka: A meat pie. Toshi: You're not an American! Taka: A chocolate bar. Toshi: You're not an American! Taka: Sushi and tempura! (with an American accent). Toshi: You're not an American!
Taka and Toshi | Sketch comedy
Humor that is primarily derived from sexual situations and desire, such as "Choke" (2008) and "Knocked Up" (2007).
Comedy film | Sex comedy
A comedy festival is a celebration of comedy with many shows, venues, comedy performers (such as stand up comics, sketch troupes, variety performers, etc.) and is held over a specific block of time. Normally, each festival has a diverse range of comedy themes and genres.
Comedy festival | Introduction
A Weekend Update segment, parodying a feature of "60 Minutes", in which Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin debate a current events topic. Aykroyd's argument typically begins with "Jane, you ignorant slut." Debuted March 25, 1978.
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1977–78 | Point/Counterpoint
The Chris and Paul Show's sketches involve an emphasis on physical comedy and minimal or no dialogue, a style influenced by comedians like Laurel and Hardy, which the "Stamford Advocate" described as "modern day vaudeville with an edgy, unexpected twist." In one of their sketches, for example, O'Neill and Valenti act out getting into a car as cheerful music plays over what appears to be a pleasant ride. The skit takes a turn when it is revealed that the smiling and cheerful characters are actually on their way to commit a bank robbery, which then leads to a violent police chase.
The Chris and Paul Show | Comedy style
Humor theorist Noël Carroll explains humor in relation to incongruity theory and annoyance: "Imagine the cutlery laid out for a formal dinner. Suppose that the salad fork is in the wrong place. If you are the sort of person who is disturbed by such deviations from the norm, you will not be capable of finding this amusing. On the other hand, if you are more easy-going about such matters and also aware of the incongruity, it may elicit a chuckle. That is, you may find the error amusing or not. But if you find it genuinely amusing, you cannot find it annoying."
Cringe comedy | Theory
Theatre productions that use humour as a vehicle to tell a story qualify as comedies. This may include a modern farce such as "Boeing Boeing" or a classical play such as "As You Like It". Theatre expressing bleak, controversial or taboo subject matter in a deliberately humorous way is referred to as black comedy. Black Comedy can have several genres like slapstick humour, dark and sarcastic comedy.
Theatre | Comedy