Category: Sketch Shows

  • Smith, Jones, and KiteKat
    Smith, Jones, and KiteKat

    I have no idea why, but the other day I was wondering what ever happened to KiteKat cat food. It used to be on all the shelves alongside Whiskas, and then it wasn’t. It’s place on those shelves was taken by Felix, and I began to wonder if I had missed something, and KiteKat had…

  • Comedy Is … So Far
    Comedy Is … So Far

    It’s my birthday today, so here’s a present for you. Not sure how that works, but okay. It’s the first seven episodes of Comedy Is … my podcast about sitcoms and comedy, what they mean to me, and their history and context, as told from the perspective of the Paramount Comedy Channel in the late…

  • Siskel And Ebert And Python
    Siskel And Ebert And Python

    Here’s what the famous movie reviewing duo had to say about Monty Python’s Life Of Brian when it was first released. And here’s their review of A Fish Called Wanda. I remember that undressing scene and the window scene being on everything and everywhere during that time.

  • Jennifer Aniston’s Other Sitcoms
    Jennifer Aniston’s Other Sitcoms

    We’ve talked before on this blog, and on the Comedy Is … podcast about Jennifer Aniston’s role in the much maligned, and quickly cancelled sitcom Ferris Bueller. The season before this though, in 1990, she was cast as a regular in the Fox sitcom Molloy. This was a starring vehicle for the hotly touted Mayim…

  • Rhinos
    Rhinos

    If nothing else, this sketch looks GORGEOUS. I wish money was being thrown at sketch shows like this on a regular basis.

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  • Nineteen 90s Shows
    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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