"but it went unchanged through production and eventually remained as the final title. The first series introduced many signature characters and sketches including Ted and Ralph, Unlucky Alf, the Fat Sweaty Coppers, Ron Manager, Roy and Renée, Ken and Kenneth (The Suit You Tailors), Jesse (of ""Jesse's diets""), Arthur Atkinson, Bob Fleming, Brilliant Kid, Insecure Woman, Janine Carr, Denzil Dexter, Carl Hooper, Ed Winchester, the Patagonians, ""Jazz Club"" and the popular parody ""Chanel 9."" Many characters were never given any ""official"" name, with their sketches being written to give their catchphrase as the punchline of each sketch. Examples include ""Anyone"
"Max & Ivan Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez are a British comedy duo known collectively as Max & Ivan. They are the creators, writers and stars of the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Casebook of Max & Ivan"" and Channel 4 Comedy Blap ""The Reunion."" They also appear together as Ben & Jerry in BBC Two's W1A. The duo met at Royal Holloway, University of London where they produced the radio show (and later podcast) ""Max and Ivàn: Exposed"" for the college's Insanity Radio station. They co-founded London improvised comedy theatre The Free Association and perform live narrative sketch comedy"
"The Ben Stiller Show The Ben Stiller Show is the name of two sketch comedy television programs that aired on MTV from 1989 to 1990, and then on Fox from September 27, 1992 to January 17, 1993. The Fox program starred Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. Character actor John F. O'Donohue also appeared in every episode. The program featured numerous filmed comedy segments, many of which parodied mid 1980s to early 1990s pop culture. Despite mostly positive reviews, Fox cancelled the series after only 13 episodes, due to low ratings. Unlike most sketch comedy program, ""The"
"Andrew Denton Andrew Christopher Denton (born 4 May 1960) is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program ""Enough Rope"" and the ABC game show ""Randling"". He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique. He is also responsible for introducing the troupe of ""The Chaser"" to Australian audiences. Denton is the son of Kit Denton, writer and the author of the novel ""The Breaker"", about Australian soldier Breaker Morant. He went to Roseville Primary School in Sydney, before attending Blue Mountains Grammar School"
"and sketch comedy, consisted of Manchester University and Royal Central School graduates Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Dawn French, and Jennifer Saunders, who began to aim their talents at television. As ""The Comic Strip Presents"", the group made over 40 television films for both Channel 4 and BBC. Ben Elton, who had by then become the Comedy Store's next MC, was invited by Rik Mayall to join him as co-writer of BBC2's TV hit sitcom ""The Young Ones"". However, it was as MC of Channel 4's new comedy show ""Saturday Live"" that Elton found fame in his own right."
"Canned Laughter (TV programme) Rowan Atkinson presents... Canned Laughter is a British one-off comedy television programme featuring Rowan Atkinson, broadcast on 8 April 1979 on ITV. Atkinson plays three roles; the nerdy Robert Box (who has been cited as an early incarnation of the ""Mr. Bean"" character, albeit involving more dialogue), his sinister boss Mr. Marshall, and would be stand up comic Dave Perry, as well as an uncredited role as a radio announcer. Produeced by LWT, the thirty minute episode was directed by Geoffrey Sax. The episode begins with Robert Box sleeping. He rises by the tune of a"
"The Armstrong & Miller Show The Armstrong and Miller Show was a British sketch comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. It featured the double act Armstrong and Miller and a number of notable scriptwriters including Andy Hamilton, co-creator of ""Outnumbered"", and Jeremy Dyson, co-creator of ""The League of Gentlemen"". It has ran for three series and was nominated for two BAFTAs, winning one. The series followed on from ""Armstrong and Miller"" on the Paramount Comedy Channel and Channel 4 between 1997 and 2001. Three series of ""The Armstrong & Miller Show"" (not to be confused"
"wrote """"Open Slather"" is an apt title for Foxtel's brand new sprawling sketch show...In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a sketch show which is so eclectic and disconnected in terms of style. In moments it wears its politics on its sleeve; in others it sets about satirising Australian society, and it often picks up on the classic parody style of ""Fast Forward"". There's really no singular idea holding all of this together, and the show seems to have no real focus and no clear reason for being...And yet, it's often surprisingly excellent."" David Knox of TV Tonight commented"
"Open Slather Open Slather is an Australian sketch comedy television series which first aired on The Comedy Channel on Foxtel on 24 May 2015. The 20 episode series is executively produced by Laura Waters and Rick McKenna. After the first ten episodes aired, the series experienced a hiatus while new episodes were in production. Replacing new episodes were 30 minute 'best of' episodes titled ""Open Slather Reopened"". The second block of ten episodes began airing on 6 September, and concluded on 8 November 2015. On 31 December 2015, it was announced the show had been cancelled. Ben Nuetze of ""Crikey"""
"Funny Business (TV series) Funny Business: ""A Lecture by Rowan Atkinson M.Sc. (Oxon.)"" (also known as Laughing Matters) is a documentary style television series about the craft of comedy consisting of six 50-minute episodes. The first episode aired in the UK 22 November 1992. The show was also shown in Germany and released on video. It was directed by David Hinton. The writers were Rowan Atkinson, Robin Driscoll, and David Hinton. It was produced by Tiger Aspect Productions (formerly Tiger Television Productions). The show featured appearances by many comedians, including Rowan Atkinson who made an appearance both as the presenter/narrator"
"of Demetri Martin, Bobby Kelly and Jim Norton. In 2001 Kreischer also starred in a television pilot based on Nash's life titled ""Life With David J"". Notes References Bert Kreischer Bert Kreischer is an American stand-up comedian, reality television host and actor. In 1997 he was featured in an article in ""Rolling Stone"" while attending Florida State University. The magazine named Kreischer ""the top partier at the Number One Party School in the country."" The article also served as inspiration for the 2002 film ""National Lampoon's Van Wilder"". Kreischer has served as host of the television series ""Hurt Bert"" on"
"Gentian Zenelaj Gentian Zenelaj (born 13 August 1977) is an Albanian actor and comedian mostly known by his appearance in Portokalli (2004-2007) and in Apartment 2XL (2008–2013). He began his career in 2004 in the show Portokalli with the group ShBLSh, when this group was the most preferred sketch in all shows. After 4 season in Portokalli the group ShBLSh broke up and anyone go in their procupetions. After three seasons on Apartment 2XL, the show was canceled, but with the same actors the producer and TV broadcaster created the Sketch Show Albania. Sketch Show aired for two seasons, but"
"descent. Kumar performed with Tom Neenan as a double act, Gentlemen of Leisure, having met while students at the University of Durham and performed in the Durham Revue. He has been performing as a solo stand-up performer in shows since 2013, including standing in for David Trent at the Charity Chuckle at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014. He also held a regular guest spot on Josh Widdicombe's Radio X show between 2013 and 2015, where he presented the feature, ""Nishipedia"". He has become increasingly well known for broadcasting and podcasting on topical news programmes. He has performed solo Edinburgh shows"
"The Sketch Show The Sketch Show is a British television sketch comedy programme, featuring many leading British comedians. It aired on ITV between 2001 and 2004. The show was first commissioned in 2001 and was co-produced by a company owned by Steve Coogan. Despite the first series winning a BAFTA for Best Comedy, the second series was cancelled due to poor viewing figures. Lee Mack states in his autobiography ""Mack The Life"" that the final two episodes have never been broadcast. A spinoff of the same title was produced in the United States. Similarly to the UK version, the final"
"actor and singer Leslie Cheung from Hong Kong. Alumni from the humanities and social sciences include author Sir Ken Robinson, author, academic and critic Robert Anthony Welch and the philosopher and author Paul Crowther. Alumni from the media and related areas include CNN international business correspondent and presenter Richard Quest, political cartoonist Steve Bell, world music broadcaster Andy Kershaw and 6 Music DJ Liz Kershaw, BBC News journalist Nicholas Witchell, foreign correspondent Mark Brayne, television presenter Jenni Falconer, Sky Sports News presenter Georgie Thompson, BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed and IMDb founder Col Needham. Alumni involved in politics include the"
"sketch, in which the presenters were dressed as traditional sailors, is often cited as one of the classic moments of British TV comedy. In another episode, Morecambe refers to him as ""Michael Aspirin"". In the 1970s and 1980s he presented popular ITV programmes such as ""Give Us a Clue"", ""Child's Play"" and ""The 6 O'Clock Show"", a live current affairs and entertainment programme shown only in the London Weekend Television region. In 1989, he hosted a televised interactive murder mystery set at a wedding called Murder Weekend, devised and written by Joy Swift, which invited viewers to solve a whodunnit"
"comic actors. There were other actors and also live sketches, sometimes with famous guests. The Sketch Show The Sketch Show is a British television sketch comedy programme, featuring many leading British comedians. It aired on ITV between 2001 and 2004. The show was first commissioned in 2001 and was co-produced by a company owned by Steve Coogan. Despite the first series winning a BAFTA for Best Comedy, the second series was cancelled due to poor viewing figures. Lee Mack states in his autobiography ""Mack The Life"" that the final two episodes have never been broadcast. A spinoff of the same"
"same show, culminating recently with a version incorporating ""Nuts"" magazines' search for a new model, listed as ""UK Uncovered vs The Nuts Babe Search"". This latest incarnation mirrors a technique first used in ""BRAZEN"", specifically where the show's voiceover is done by a computer-generated personality but according to feedback found in various sources, this unique approach is not always popular with viewers. He also hosted a current affairs show for a younger audience on ITV1, called ""Late Attitude"". He has also produced several other series, such as ""The Steam Room"", ""Bak2Skool"", and he appeared in a mockumentary TV series entitled"
"show at College Park, Maryland on October 28, 2010, Demetri Martin confirmed that Comedy Central had not picked up the show for a third season. Important Things with Demetri Martin Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examined a single theme, the ""important thing"", such as timing, power, control and money. All sketches, short vignettes, animated segments and stand-up comedy were loosely related to the theme of the episode. The show was produced by Jon Stewart's Busboy Productions, and contained stand-up, prop comedy and musical comedy by"
"sketches have been made available and subsequently achieved minor success on the internet. Next! (TV series) Next! is an American sketch comedy series featuring former ""Saturday Night Live"" writer/actor Bob Odenkirk. It was originally produced by 20th Century Fox Television in 2001. Two pilot episodes and a few extra sketches were filmed but the show was cancelled before airing. FOX ultimately chose to produce ""Cedric the Entertainer Presents"" instead of ""Next!"" The show features a number of notable alternative comedians as both cast members and writers including Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen, Patton Oswalt, Jay Johnston, and Jerry Minor. Each episode"
"The Cheese Shop The Cheese Shop were a troupe of six comedy writer-performers from the revue circuit of University of Warwick. Between 1997 and 1999, Gerard Foster, Dave Lamb, Gordon Southern, Tim Verrinder, Ben Ward and Richie Webb appeared in three series of their comedy sketch show The Cheese Shop Presents: The Butter Factor on BBC Radio 4. This show featured a number of sketches based around eccentric and outrageous characters, including drug-addicted and sexually deviant singer-songwriter Ted Ruby, maniac gardener Jack Finsborough, petty official Miles Stoat and an unnamed but inexperienced vet (""""'Tortoise', you say? Hmm... I must write"
"Comedians such as Demetri Martin, Aziz Ansari, Pete Holmes, Jon Glazer, Jon Daly, Reggie Watts and musicians such as Bright Eyes and Yo La Tengo all performed on Invite Them Up. The show spurred a host of other weekly events at Rififi hosted by Nick Kroll, Jon Mulaney, Greg Johnson, Larry Murphy and Jenny Slate. The venue was a hotbed of alternative comedy until complaints from neighbors about one of Rififi’s dance parties, Trash, got the bar closed down in 2008. Warren St. John said that the ""inspiration"" for alternative comedy in New York City is the Upright Citizens Brigade."
"role of David Bliss in Noël Coward's ""Hay Fever"". Keaton also works as a comedian, and has won the Perrier Comedy Award at the 1986 Edinburgh Festival, two Manchester Evening News Best Actor Awards and a Laurence Olivier Nomination. He is a regular guest member with the Comedy Store Players, the Steve Frost Improv All Stars and Eddie Izzard, and appeared in this style of comedy at the Royal Exchange in his show ""Ben Keaton & Friends"" which has included Stephen Frost, Niall Ashdown, Steve Steen, Andy Smart, Brian Conley and Paul Merton. He was a founder member of the"
"that down..."""") The third series included a regular section called ""Fellah's Hour"" this was expanded in a fourth series of The Cheese Shop renamed ""Fellah's Hour"" but still written and performed by the same 6 writer performers and featuring many of the same characters. Ben Ward, Gerard Foster and Richie Webb also took part in the Saturday morning children’s TV programme Live & Kicking, as Men In Trousers, a parody based on the 1997 film Men in Black, where they all shared the same pair of trousers. The Cheese Shop The Cheese Shop were a troupe of six comedy writer-performers"
"Current TV a few months later. In late August 2006, comedian and Second City Training Center alumnus Matt Geiler was tapped to anchor ""The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News"", which by that time would become a hybrid of news content (provided by the KPTM staff) and sketch/improv comedy. One prime example of this era occurred on the Halloween 2006 edition, when Geiler, for a pre-taped end-of-show segment, donned a black unitard and foam jack-o'-lantern and danced in front of a green screen image of a cemetery. Though ""The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News"" was cancelled in April 2007, the ""Pumpkin"
"Edmondson); Rick (Rik Mayall); and Neil (Nigel Planer). The title character was portrayed by Griff Rhys Jones in a parody of real-life ""University Challenge"" presenter Bamber Gascoigne, while Jones' comedy partner Mel Smith has a cameo as a security guard. The opposing ""University Challenge"" team, from (the fictional) Footlights College, Oxbridge, comprises Lord Monty (Hugh Laurie); Lord Snot (Stephen Fry: who had himself appeared on ""University Challenge"" while a Cambridge student); Miss Money-Sterling (Emma Thompson); and Kendal Mintcake (Ben Elton). Alexei Sayle appears briefly as a train driver to deliver his trademark monologue (in this case to a lone Mexican"
"Puppetzilla- The LA Puppet Guild’s recurring Puppetslam which featured experimental puppet performances."" ""Mel Gordon Mondo Lectures"" - University of California, Berkeley Professor Mel Gordon’s numerous lectures including Sex Magic and the Occult; Erik Jan Hanussen, Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant; Anita Berber, the Dancer of Depravity, and more. ""With Bob and David"" - Mr. Show reunion to workshop material for Netflix’s With Bob and Dave, featuring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.(33) ""Firesign Theatre’s 50th Anniversary"" - With Firesign Theatre founders David Ossman and Philip Proctor. (34) ""Night Talk"" - A sex positive talk show hosted by Martin Starr, with guests Mike Judge"
"December 2012. Programming is sourced from various countries, and includes a Kenyan talk show, ""The Patricia Show"", and Nigerian and South African soap dramas ""Tinsel"" and ""Scandal!"". All programming is focused on Africa and the diaspora, and the channel is aimed at people with an interest in the continent. The channel broadcasts the British sitcom ""Meet the Adebanjos"" whose characters are British Nigerians living in Peckham, South London. On 14 January 2013, The Africa Channel relaunched ""Desmond's"" - the popular British situation comedy that centred on Desmond’s bustling barber shop in Peckham, and featured a predominantly Black British cast. The"
"Brendan Moar Brendan Moar is an Australian television host, best known for hosting several lifestyle genre shows on Foxtel, and being the host on the Foxtel program ""Dry Spell Gardening"". Moar began hosting Foxtel's ""Dry Spell Gardening"" in 2008. He was also the chief landscaper designer of the show. It aired on the Lifestyle Channel. He also hosted several other lifestyle programs on Foxtel, including ""By Design"", ""Home"", ""Moar Gardening"" and ""Postcards from Home"". In 2011, he made his free to air debut as host of ""The Renovators"", that aired on Channel Ten. He has twice been voted Favourite Male"
"""Hedz"": comedy sketch show for CBBC/ BBC Scotland. O'Sullivan supplied all female impressions except the Queen, who was voiced by Peter Dickson. (Bafta:- Best Children’s Light Entertainment 2008). She appeared in ""DoubleTake"", created by Alison Jackson (Bafta for Innovation 2001). O'Sullivan's impressions, namely Nancy Dell'Olio and Ulrika Jonsson, featured in Jackson's 2006 production ""Sven: The Coach, The Cash And His Lovers"" for Channel 4. O’Sullivan features as an impressionist in the topical BBC Radio 4 satire starring Rory Bremner ""Tonight"". Kate O’Sullivan performed stand-up and impressions at the Leicester Square Theatre (2010 and 2011), the New Players Theatre (2010) and"
"on the Scroobius Pip podcast, the ‘Brian Gittins and friends podcast’, as well as BBC Radio 4 Show ‘Fresh From the Fringe’. Demetriou also appeared in ""Paddington 2"", as The Professor. Demetriou voiced Moriarty in the 2018 computer animated film, ""Sherlock Gnomes"" opposite Johnny Depp as the eponymous detective. Demetriou is of Cypriot descent. His sister Natasia Demetriou is also a stand-up comedian and comedy actress. Jamie Demetriou Jamie Demetriou is a British comedian, actor and writer. Demetriou attended school in North London and joined the Chickenshed Theatre, before attending Bristol University. His student revue show 'Bristol Revunions' received critical"
"Trevor and Simon Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson are a British comedy duo (known as 'Trevor and Simon, or Trev and Simon), and are best known for a family-friendly version of anarchic alternative comedy on BBC1’s Saturday morning shows, Going Live! (1987-1993), and Live and Kicking (1993-1997). Trevor and Simon met as drama students at Manchester University in 1981. Hickson was a year older than Neal. They first encountered each other at the drama department's Christmas show, in which Neal played a squirrel on a skateboard . In a podcast, the pair recount how comedian Ben Elton taught Hickson Greek"
"""Wendell Meets Middle-Earth"", would follow Wendell's existence in the fantasy world that he likes to see his life in. Key & Peele Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television series created by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele that was aired on Comedy Central. Both Key and Peele previously worked on ""Mad TV"". Each episode of the show consists mainly of several pre-taped skits starring the two actors. The sketches cover a variety of societal topics, often with a focus on American popular culture, ethnic stereotypes and race relations. ""Key & Peele"" premiered on January 31, 2012 and ended"