At this point, sketch comedy on television is an institution. One need only look at "Saturday Night Live," which celebrated its landmark 50th anniversary in 2025 with documentaries and a star-studded ...

When pitching his ideas to Hollywood executives, he noticed that nobody in the movie industry wanted to “take a risk and make a whole new idea.” Phillips said that execs often suggested he do a sketch ...

The art of TV comedy is distilled into its purest essence in the format of a sketch show. Sketch comedies have been entertaining viewers at home since the 1940s, when variety shows like Texaco Star ...

Netflix released season 3 of I Think You Should Leave and Tim Robinson's auteur sketch show is just as good as ever. The variety of sketches makes for great debate as to which is the best, with new ...

The Second City comedy troupe got into the sketch comedy TV business one year after SNL. Their premise was that the Second City Television network would air different sketches. Comedy legends John ...

The Fast Show. Smack The Pony. Big Train. A Bit Of Fry & Laurie. Trigger Happy TV. French And Saunders. Flying Circus... The list goes on. If you haven't seen them, you've certainly heard of them, but ...

The art of comedy is meticulous and easy to get wrong, but students in the Who Even Told You That? sketch comedy group is perfecting its craft. Austin Martin, president and founder of the student-led ...

Room 015 of the Fine Arts Building will be full of laughter as IU’s Backdoor Comedy performs its second show of the semester Saturday night. Though IU is home to many comedy groups, Backdoor Comedy ...