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Kid Nemo
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:35 pm |
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Tried to keep it to straight sketch shows,seperate from variety shows,but there's bound to be some overlap. For me,SCTV.No other show has gone the route it went,from syndication to network to cable,and never getting enough acclaim.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:39 pm |
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:53 pm |
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Kids In The Hall for me just beats SCTV which in turn just beats Monty Python.
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Monk
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:55 pm |
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Stephen Strange
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:59 pm |
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:03 pm |
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The correct answer is Mr. Show.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:00 pm |
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SCTV was indeed great. They took full advantage of the format -- they took advantage of the time that they had to perfect good skits (SNL doesn't have this luxury), the took advantage of an overarching narrative to unite the skits (a television station) so it could have some running gags and subplots. And they assembled some all time greats from Second City, so the talent was "proven."
SNL, I love the format. It's exciting. They basically throw a show together within a few short days. And somehow it works.
I loved Kids in the Hall back in the day.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:00 pm |
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Making me pick between Monty Python and SCTV is just cruel.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:17 pm |
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:17 pm |
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:26 pm |
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Monk wrote: For my English class last semester I wrote a paper comparing and contrasting SNL and Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was a good paper. ...for me to poop on.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:27 pm |
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Upright Citizens Brigade. because "Ass Pennies" is one of the funniest things evar.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:29 pm |
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SCTV.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:36 pm |
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:40 pm |
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:45 am |
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SCTV, Monty Python and Mr. Show are all excellent. I like how all three find imaginative ways to connect the sketches.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:50 am |
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I don't feel right chiming in having not seen many of the shows mentioned above.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:56 am |
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A Bit Of Fry & Laurie is my all-time favourite.
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Bubbles
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:58 am |
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Fry & Laurie is pretty fantastic.
The more recent "Portlandia" has a lot of potential, way too early to start calling it "best" of anything, but give it a few more seasons and it might turn into something pretty great. The Battlestar Galactica episode was awesome.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:03 am |
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Ones above I have actually seen:
Laugh In Monty Python Mad TV Chappelle's Show SNL
I would have trouble ranking even those 5, Mad TV would obviously be way the hell at the bottom, but SNL, Chappelle, Laugh-In, and Monty Python appeal to me in different ways. On the whole between those 4 I would say I like Chappelle the most. Laugh-In did not thrill me, Python is kind of hit and miss, and SNL has had so many bad years as to hold it back. However, since many of those listed at the top of the thread are shows I would like to see, but have not yet seen for various reasons I don't feel totally right giving Chappelle the title.
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:22 am |
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Post subject: Best Sketch Show Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:26 am |
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Swanderson has stumbled upon the correct response.
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