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Sketch comedy

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Sketch Comedy has its origins in vaudeville and music hall, where a large number of brief but humorous acts were strung together to form a larger program. In England it moved to radio with such shows as ITMA and then television with such shows as Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and Not the Nine O'clock News. Sketch comedy seems a bit out of vogue at the moment but some new sketch shows are still made.

Sketch comedy programs consist of a series of short unrelated 'sketches' rather than anything more sustained, and relatively few sketch comedy programs are successful. However, the ones that become popular often remain on air for a long period of time, and survive the test of time. The sketches are generally performed by a relatively small cast, and reuse 'stock character's in subsequent programs or sketches.

List of sketch comedy groups

Australia

• Fast Forward
• Full Frontal
• The D-Generation
• Australia, you're standing in it
• The Comedy Company
• The Late Show
• SkitHouse

Canada

• CODCO
• The Frantics
• Kids in the Hall
• Rick Mercer's Monday Report
• The Royal Canadian Air Farce
• SCTV
• This Hour has 22 Minutes
• You Can't Do That on Television

UK

• The Dave Allen Show
• The Fast Show
• Goodness Gracious Me
• Harry Enfield's Television Programme
• I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (radio)
• The League of Gentlemen
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Not the Nine O'clock News
• The Two Ronnies
• Spitting Image

USA

• All That
• The Amanda Show
• Chappelle's Show
• Gag Reflex
• The Groundlings
• In Living Color
• Lester McFwap
• Mad TV
• Mr. Show with Bob and David
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
• Saturday Night Live
• Second City
• The Silly Spider Monkey Fiasco
• Olde English
• The State
• TROOP!
• You Can't Do That on Television

External Links

• Gag Reflex
• The Groundlings
• Lester McFwap's Sketch Comedy Show
• Olde English
• The Silly Spider Monkey Fiasco
• SketchFest
• TROOP! Sketch Comedy

Radios Golden Years: The Encyclopedia of Radio Programs, 1930-1960		A Thirty-Year History of Programs Carried on National Radio Networks in the United States, 1926-1956.		Radio Drama: A Comprehensive Chronicle of American Network Programs, 1932-1962		Radio Program Openings and Closings, 1931-1972
Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of over 1800 Shows		Media Log: A Guide to Film, Television, and Radio Programs Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Pu		Great Radio Audience Participation Shows: Seventeen Programs from the 1940s and 1950s		Radio Program Ideabook.
Greater than the bomb : the first publication in English of a radio program broadcast internationally in 1950 and repeated many times since