Best Modern N. American Skit Comedy?

[Khephra]

[flamingyouth]

1. Gotta vote for Kids in the Hall

So many great skits...

I'm crushing your head

I'm Simon, and with me tonight is my man-servant Hecubus...

You've got to listen to the Doors on 8-track, buy a bottle of whiskey, drive out to desert...

(In outer space) What if our leader is just a twisted ass freak?

LOL :7

[BlackVelvetElvis]

2. Other: SCTV

Probably the best ensemble cast ever on a sketch comedy show.

[sasquatch]

5. "It was a good show eh!"

:D

[Khephra]

7. Yeah, but that was the 80's

I'm thinking 90's up.

LOVE SCTV though.

[oxymoron]

34. SCTV was so good it's scaaaary!

Lola Heatherton - "The Sammy Maudlin Show"

[sasquatch]

3. "I'm Rick James bitch"

:D

[buycitgo]

32. really

tyrone boggins (?), lying in a bed of roaches/worms, reading the paper, then muching moosedick

pure genius

so many others

the black racist, in Frontline mode

best new show in a LONG time

[tishaLA]

35. Damn right

Don't forget Wayne Brady. Reversed Law and Order. Too many to mention.

[Philostopher]

4. Early SCTV still gets my vote.

After twenty-five years. I like a lot of the other stuff on your list, Kheph, but I can't honestly say any of it was any better than the early SCTV shows.

[Khephra]

8. That's why I said "modern"

SNL of the SCTV timeframe kicked ass too, but today? :shrug:

[Philostopher]

23. As I said farther down the thread ...

I forget I'm getting old, and when people say 'modern' they mean 'within the last decade,' I guess. Didn't mean to hijack your poll!

Of those listed, guess I'd have to go with Kids In The Hall, too. Since 'Reno 911' isn't, ostensibly, sketch comedy -- it's sketches, but they're arranged within a show parody. The actors on that show would be great in a sketch format.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

9. The early years of SCTV.

No one now would ever have the balls to air it. Right over most of the tv watching population's heads. I hope they will get around to releasing those on DVD. Literary references are all over the place.

[Philostopher]

16. Yeah, although the most memorable sketches

were almost racist -- Dave Thomas as Lin Ye Tang, and all the Eastern European characters John Candy played. Not that they weren't just as tough on Canadians.

"Gypsies -- ptui!"

My favorite was "We'll Be Allright, Eh, What With You Leaving Home And All," actually.

Sorry, Kheph -- I'm getting old, 'modern' means 'anything I can remember.'

[BlackVelvetElvis]

19. "We'll Be Alright"...

Was that the play that had O'Hara on drugs (pulling bread apart over her face) and Levy as a poetry writing gay man?

[Philostopher]

21. "And then there's your sister

like a Brussels sprout, popping through the bread, over there." Yep.

[Kat45]

6. The Ben Stiller Show was excellent.

Unfortunately, I don't think all that many people knew about it when it was on. Stiller is so talented: I cringe at the 'stupid' comedy movies he does these days.

He used to do sketches of the show "Cops" in different times/places. He had "Cops" in ancient Egypt: Moses was about to part the Red Sea, and Stiller (as the cop) was saying, "Have you got a permit for that?" and was trying to stop him from doing it. He also did some good skits where he impersonated Bruce Springsteen and Charles Manson..

[Khephra]

11. The entire show's run is on DVD and sometimes

you can catch it on early morning repeats on Comedy Central.

[buycitgo]

30. hard to top!

the robert deniro thing?

cape munster?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah

[Bat Boy]

10. Mr. Show!

Don't get me wrong, I love Chapelle and the Kids, but for my money Mr. Show had better writing (although Chapelle is nipping at their heels) and were consistantly funnier. Which, of course, is why they were cancelled.

And in the Nitpicking Department:

Those of us in the business HATE the word "skit."

Cub Scout Troops do "skits." Summer camp kids do "skits." Saturday Night Live does "skits."

Well written, well performed scenic comedy is comprised of "sketches" or "scenes."

Sorry. It's just one of those things that makes me a little nutty.

[Khephra]

14. My apologies

I hate it when people call comic books "funny books" so I grok where you're coming from. I'll never use the term again.

[Bat Boy]

17. No one comes out of the womb knowing that.

And frankly, I'm a bit of an ass for bringing it up...

[Khephra]

29. Nah

I still :loveya:

[buycitgo]

31. yah yah

just got Cross's cd shut up you f*************** baby

killer



dali would have dugemtothemax

hope odenkirk recovers from the beer commercials

did you hear Cross on Majority Report

[countmyvote4real]

12. Another SCTV fan.

You need to update your poll and more importantly, broaden your horizons.

On second thought, maybe that's not modern enough for you.

Newsflash: Loophole slips the best NA sketch comedy in obscure DU poll.

(And yes. It was so obscure that I voted.)

[Khephra]

15. Like I said above, SCTV would count

if I wasn't shooting for a 90's up. I'm a die-hard SCTV fan, so I don't need to broaden my horizons.

[countmyvote4real]

20. And so you said.

Sorry. My bad. I don't read comments in a poll before I vote or post. I believe in keeping polls fresh (even if not modern.)

[bhunt70]

13. hands down...THE STATE

[Syrinx]

18. SCTV is modern

And that would be my choice. But of those listed, Kids In The Hall.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

22. I'm with you.

If SCTV isn't considered modern (god, I feel old) then I would vote for Kids.
Very talented cast, great writing and off the wall.

[Syrinx]

25. maybe even "postmodern"

Though it's over 20 years old and I'm not entirely sure what the word means. :)

[buycitgo]

24. GREATLIST

Exit 57

ever seen that?

know who was in it

brilliant fricking cast

you'll be amazed

just saw one of them in Reno whatever

[buycitgo]

26. ASS PENNIES!

I got to say that on the radio, talking about UCB last week

made the host laff hard

I'm on hold to talk to same guy right now

[Bat Boy]

33. Mitch Rouse...

Plays the Fire Dept. hunk.

Also had Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Jody Lennon.

All of them came from Second City in Chicago.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Flip Wilson, Laugh-In, Carol Burnett for oldtimers.. KITH for currentish

[buycitgo]

28. nevermind....shoulda read threaD

but I got so EXCITED by the topic