I think improv and sketch comedy groups are all springboards from stage to radio, radio to stage, stage yo television, radio to television, television to radio, to other television and ultimately the big screen. Any good YouTube sketch comedy? I've yet to really explore that, I guess Vine is funny sketch comedy. A bit too fast, over and done for me though. Cyanide and Happiness count? Web comics? Cracked? Anyway, on to television, which remains the fascination:

The first years of SNL are phenomenal with Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner. And before that a lot of those guys were together on the National Lampoon Radio. (Speaking of radio, Dr. Demento?)

And there's also SCTV, jesus -- John Candy, Martin Short, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, and Joe Flaherty. Flaherty's vampire killed me as a kid. So funny, but really I haven't watched it since I was a youngster.

When I was growing up PBS played a lot of BBC television. Benny Hill amongst them, such a naughty show. I think I was barely allowed watch. But I enjoy the show as much as its mostly about old horny men and women with big tits.

What do I think about Upright Citizen Brigade? I would choose to be an Agent of U.C.B. before S.H.I.E.L.D. Great as both an improv group and sketch comedy for television. Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz are awesome, and I love them on SNL as well. Assssscat

Cast transfers, right? Sketch comedy groups are like sports teams. Mark McKinney on SNL, etc. Daily Show anchors from Upright Citizens Brigade. SCTV to SNL, etc. Every sketch comedy floods into SNL. Did you watch Nickelodeon's All That? Kenan and Kell.

Mr Show is on my to watch list. I love David Cross in his stand up, as Tobias Funke on Arrested Dev, and as Todd Margaret, which is fucking RIDICULOUS if you haven't seen it. It's not sketch comedy but it might as well be. It's like a British comedy with brash Americans thrown into the mix. Chaos ensues and many, many, many laws are broken, including the usage of weapons of mass destruction and murder. Dark comedy.

Oh, I know a good dark sort of sketch comedy: The League of Gentlemen? It's sort of like if Simon Pegg produced Monty Python. They say things like "Rape our dead mouths". Psychopaths, murderers and crossdressers.

Now that we've ventured off the beaten path, what are your thoughts about the short run comedy central show Stella? Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain. All three from a funny sketch comedy series called the State. I think I've sifted or promoted some sketches from that series.

And I can't not mention MadTV, you know what? Uh uh, a list about sketch comed without MadTV, ridiculous. I'm running out of steam though, because I'm typing too much, but MO Collins, Orlando Jones, Bobby Lee, Phil LaMar (who does DC comics cartoon voice over work), Aries Spears, and Will Sasso. Damn.

And lest we forget (Thanks, Rudyard), Little Britain -- Britain, Britain, Britain, if it weren't for Little Britain I would scarcely know of the country.

I'm sure I've left off some other great sketch (In Living Color!!), but these came to mind and as I started to think of my favorite cast members and comedians, I began to realize how they all fit in the grand scheme of things. I'm going to watch some Fire Marshall Bill clips now.

Tom Hanks + Dan Aykroyd = rap? has been added as a related post - related requested by newtboy on that post.

Isn't that Dan Akroyd? And isn't it amazing that nearly 40 years later, we no longer have a car on the market that gets that kind of gas mileage.

lol

>> ^gwiz665:

I know. It's like, some women think I'm only a penis, and it hurts, you know..?
>> ^bareboards2:
Has anyone heard the story about the SNL skit from the Dan Akroyd/Gilda Radner days where they reversed the roles? The women played the construction workers and Dan played a man walking by the construction site wearing shorts.
It was just a skit, but he ended up deeply upset by it.
All you guys who think this is nothing, just imagine... just imagine... if all you EVER saw of male images was young, taut muscled, and passive. No fighter jocks. No big funny guys with beer bellies. No firemen. Just... pretty body parts.
After you have spent ten minutes thinking about that, really thinking about it, then you can talk.
Until then, just shut the fuck up already. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

I am seriously enjoying your embrace of the Penis-dom in some of your posts.

I need a good laugh.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
I know. It's like, some women think I'm only a penis, and it hurts, you know..?

>> ^bareboards2:

Has anyone heard the story about the SNL skit from the Dan Akroyd/Gilda Radner days where they reversed the roles? The women played the construction workers and Dan played a man walking by the construction site wearing shorts.
It was just a skit, but he ended up deeply upset by it.
All you guys who think this is nothing, just imagine... just imagine... if all you EVER saw of male images was young, taut muscled, and passive. No fighter jocks. No big funny guys with beer bellies. No firemen. Just... pretty body parts.
After you have spent ten minutes thinking about that, really thinking about it, then you can talk.
Until then, just shut the fuck up already. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

I know. It's like, some women think I'm only a penis, and it hurts, you know..?

>> ^bareboards2:

Has anyone heard the story about the SNL skit from the Dan Akroyd/Gilda Radner days where they reversed the roles? The women played the construction workers and Dan played a man walking by the construction site wearing shorts.
It was just a skit, but he ended up deeply upset by it.
All you guys who think this is nothing, just imagine... just imagine... if all you EVER saw of male images was young, taut muscled, and passive. No fighter jocks. No big funny guys with beer bellies. No firemen. Just... pretty body parts.
After you have spent ten minutes thinking about that, really thinking about it, then you can talk.
Until then, just shut the fuck up already. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

Has anyone heard the story about the SNL skit from the Dan Akroyd/Gilda Radner days where they reversed the roles? The women played the construction workers and Dan played a man walking by the construction site wearing shorts.

It was just a skit, but he ended up deeply upset by it.

All you guys who think this is nothing, just imagine... just imagine... if all you EVER saw of male images was young, taut muscled, and passive. No fighter jocks. No big funny guys with beer bellies. No firemen. Just... pretty body parts.

After you have spent ten minutes thinking about that, really thinking about it, then you can talk.

Until then, just shut the fuck up already. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

this game was amamzing, however some of the things he said do stick out like sore thumbs, i cant tell you how many times i sat at my pc SCREAMING at the top of my lungs for some jackass to get the living hell out of my way. for a few days you'd think my dogs name was dan akroyd i yelled at him so god damned much, beyond that there were more times then id like to admit where i spent more time waiting to be resurrected by my 'friends' because i couldn't even tell WHAT THE F*** just hit me. but beyond all that it was a fun game, it had its moments, and srsly fighting mr staypuft == ownage