"One woman playing 20 characters taking on one topic a week."
Tracey Takes On... is a sketch comedy series starring actress Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned after the success of the comedy special Tracey Ullman Takes on New York (1993). Each episode focuses on a specific subject which Ullman and her cast of characters take on through a series of sketches and monologues.
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In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader’s Digest and TV commercials. Instead she finds herself suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: mass murders, low-flying airplanes and waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor.
Investigative reporter Chris Morris puts modern Britain under the spotlight, and smacks the issues of the day till they bleed. He tackles weighty issues including animals, drugs, sex and skewered celebrities and politicians alike - and in a later episode in 2001, paedophiles.
The Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of eight programmes focused on specific themes relating to human nature and existentialism, around which Iannucci would weave a series of surreal sketches and monologues. Recurring themes in the episodes are the superficiality of modern culture, our problems communicating with each other, the mundane nature of working life and feelings of personal inadequacy and social awkwardness. Several characters also make repeat appearances in the shows, including the East End thug, who solves every problem with threats of violence; Hugh, an old man who delivers surreal monologues about what things were like in the old days; and Iannucci's barber, who is full of nonsensical anecdotes.
A groundbreaking, splendidly silly, surreal sketch comedy series written by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman.
A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Dolly is a television variety show that ran on ABC during the 1987-1988 season featuring Dolly Parton.
Absolutely is a popular UK television comedy sketch show shown on Channel 4 between 1989 and 1993. The cast and crew were mainly Scottish; the principal writers and performers were Moray Hunter, Jack Docherty, Peter Baikie, Gordon Kennedy, Morwenna Banks and John Sparkes. It was directed by Phil Chilvers, Alan Nixon, Alistair Clark, and Graham C Williams. The show's producers were Alan Nixon, and David Tyler
Black Tie Affair is an American crime drama spoof that aired from May 29 until June 19, 1993.
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The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.
The Amanda Show is an American live action sketch comedy and variety show that aired on Nickelodeon from October 16, 1999 to September 21, 2002. It starred Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, and Nancy Sullivan, along with several performing artists who came and left at different points, such as John Kassir, Raquel Lee, and Josh Peck. The show was a spin-off from All That, in which Bynes had co-starred for several years. The show was unexpectedly cancelled at the end of 2002, according to creator Dan Schneider's blog. Writers for the show included John Hoberg, Steven Molaro, Andrew Hill Newman, and Dan Schneider. Two years after the end of The Amanda Show, Dan Schneider created a new series, called Drake & Josh, featuring Drake Bell, Josh Peck and Nancy Sullivan.
A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole is a British stand-up comedy television series produced by Channel X, and starring Jo Brand as the show's host. It debuted on 30 December 1993 in the United Kingdom and was broadcast on Channel 4 for three years, from 1993 to 1996.
A sketch with popular comedians Demis Karibidis and Marina Kravets.
Scènes de ménages depicts the daily lives of several couples from different generations, illustrating with humor their arguments, tender moments and little idiosyncrasies. Each episode is made up of short sketches, in which the characters exchange scathing retorts and funny situations.
Clarissa Darling is a teen girl dealing with typical pre-adolescent concerns such as school, boys, pimples, wearing her first training bra and an annoying little brother Ferguson.
Believe Nothing is a British ITV sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in Britain, and Oxford's leading moral philosopher. He is paid huge amounts of money for his views consulted by the government but he's bored and wants adventure so he joins the shadowy organization The Council which controls everything going on in the world. Starring alongside Mayall is Michael Maloney as Brian Albumen, Cnut's faithful servant, and Emily Bruni as Dr. Hannah Awkward who becomes professor of pedantics. The series was written by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, who give a twist to many of today's global issues. Although much hyped by ITV, who were hoping to repeat the success of Gran and Marks' previous project with Mayall, the successful The New Statesman, the series failed to catch on, and was dropped after one series.
The Kumars at No. 42 is a British comedy show. It won an International Emmy in 2002 and 2003. It ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes.
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
A sketch comedy series starring and hosted by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. The pair introduce most episodes as heightened versions of themselves before transitioning to a mixture of live sketches and pre-taped segments.
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11 episodes • 1996
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romance | Jan 24, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Charity | Jan 31, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Nostalgia | Feb 7, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Royalty | Feb 14, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Family | Feb 21, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Law | Feb 28, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Vanity | Mar 6, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Death | Mar 13, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Health | Mar 20, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Fame | Mar 27, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 11 | The Best of Tracey Takes On... Season One | Apr 3, 1996 | 0.0 |
16 episodes • 1997
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sex | Jan 18, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Fantasy | Jan 25, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Mothers | Feb 2, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Las Vegas | Feb 8, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Secrets | Feb 17, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Childhood | Feb 24, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 7 | 1976 | Mar 5, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Food | Mar 12, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Crime | Mar 19, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Movies | Mar 27, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Money | Apr 2, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Race Relations | Apr 9, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Supernatural | Apr 16, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Politics | Apr 23, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Music | Apr 30, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 16 | The Best of Tracey Takes On... Season Two | May 28, 1997 | 0.0 |
11 episodes • 1998
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriage | Jan 4, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Hollywood | Jan 11, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Smoking | Jan 18, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Loss | Jan 25, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Agents | Feb 1, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Age | Feb 8, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Religion | Feb 15, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Man's Best Friend | Feb 22, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Culture | Mar 1, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Sports | Mar 8, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 11 | The Best of Tracey Takes On... Season Three | Jun 4, 1998 | 0.0 |
12 episodes • 1999
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dating | Jan 13, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Drugs | Jan 13, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Scandal | Jan 20, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Hair | Jan 20, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Lies | Jan 27, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Erotica | Feb 3, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Books | Feb 10, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Road Rage | Feb 17, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 9 | America | Feb 24, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Hype | Mar 3, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Obsession | Mar 10, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 12 | End of the World | Mar 17, 1999 | 0.0 |