It's amusing how cruel people can unwittingly be (on YouTube) making fun of the elderly man being sucked into the sea to die and their misplaced vitriol at the disabled person who is unable to help. It's not so much that an old guy almost died and a crippled person couldn't do anything; it's the the irony in the comments due to people not knowing the truth. Then again, maybe it could also be a skit like the disabled fat guy from Little Britain?

Certainly, it is funny, despite the cruelty in laughing at other people's misery. It could be a gag in an Adam Sandler movie, except the old guy would be Bob Barker and he'd be pulled out to sea and heard cursing as he drifts and blinks out in the sunset. *Plink!*

Everyone would laugh and then Adam Sandler would kiss a blond woman, probably Drew Barrymore, while the sun sets and we do the Looney Tunes fade out, with Porky Pig interrupting with a hand gesture, "A bi-di-a-bi-di-a-bi-di-abi-di-that's all folks!"

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.

Your video, Stephen Hawking Little Britain Comic Relief Sketch, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Thanks for the promote.
In reply to this comment by geo321:
*promote

Definitely, that's just a very extreme version of!

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
OK, so I've just asked you whether you have heard your own accent...

The little britain clip reminds me of Maryanne Fahey as "Kylie Mole" actually :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3OiNEoEq6E&feature=player_detailpage
Best known for "and then she goes, she goes, she goes, she just goes".

The people I've heard with a west country accent didn't exactly sound like that, they were older and a bit calmer.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Yes I have, I live very close to Devon, the county I'm in (Dorset) has what's known as a west country accent, along with Devon, Somerset and Cornwall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdfJySxOb6U&feature=related This is somewhat a Devonshire accent, I dunno if I can really hear the aussie in it, but you are clearly more qualified than me to deduce that :

OK, so I've just asked you whether you have heard your own accent...

The little britain clip reminds me of Maryanne Fahey as "Kylie Mole" actually

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3OiNEoEq6E&feature=player_detailpage

Best known for "and then she goes, she goes, she goes, she just goes".

The people I've heard with a west country accent didn't exactly sound like that, they were older and a bit calmer.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Yes I have, I live very close to Devon, the county I'm in (Dorset) has what's known as a west country accent, along with Devon, Somerset and Cornwall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdfJySxOb6U&feature=related This is somewhat a Devonshire accent, I dunno if I can really hear the aussie in it, but you are clearly more qualified than me to deduce that :

Sometimes I wonder if Little Britain is so hilarious because it's legitimately funny, or if it's just because Matt Lucas is so silly looking that he makes everything funny.

The reason I started these playlists was to gather data -- how often are dupes made in error? And how often are dupes completed all the way in error?

So these belong. The very fact that the Siftlords had to step in is exactly why that vid is on the playlist.

I have been surprised at how few vids were duped in error. I thought I would find a lot more.

In reply to this comment by xxovercastxx:
This one's got a bad dupeof on it but it wasn't isduped:
http://videosift.com/video/Little-Britain-Muscle-Men-Express-Their-M
anhood

This one was rescued by the SiftLords, so not sure if it should stay on the list:
http://videosift.com/video/Even-More-Problems-with-Jeggings

No worries, it happens.

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
Oh shit my bad. Sorry bout that.

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
Not a dupe, that was a different sketch with the same characters. It has since been changed to this one which is not correct.

>> ^Sagemind:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Little-Britain-USA-Gym-Buddies-Compare-Enhancement-Surgery

Oh shit my bad. Sorry bout that.

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
Not a dupe, that was a different sketch with the same characters. It has since been changed to this one which is not correct.

>> ^Sagemind:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Little-Britain-USA-Gym-Buddies-Compare-Enhancement-Surgery

I corrected the embed for

http://videosift.com/video/Little-Britain-USA-Gym-Buddies-Compare-Enhancement-Surgery

It is clearly not a dupe.

Not a dupe, that was a different sketch with the same characters. It has since been changed to this one which is not correct.

>> ^Sagemind:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Little-Britain-USA-Gym-Buddies-Compare-Enhancement-Surgery

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by Sagemind. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Little-Britain-USA-Gym-Buddies-Compare-Enhancement-Surgery

I am looking forward to that day

In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
Your avatar fits you so well! I've got 50~ videos to sift before I can get *homme, but that day is going to be a tag fest.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
*quality *doublepromote *homme