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A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
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A parody of a newscast, the show is a caricature of the political world, the media, personalities or more generally of French society and the current world.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart. The show was set on a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2226. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting "space baggies" with his trusted and highly unusual crew. In its short run, Quark satirized such science fiction as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flash Gordon. Three of the episodes were direct satires of Star Trek episodes. The series won one Emmy Award nomination, for costume designer Grady Hunt's work in the episode "All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms, Part 2". The complete series was released on DVD on October 14, 2008.
Meet the Diffy family, a futuristic family from the year 2121. When the eccentric dad, Lloyd, rents a time machine for their family vacation, everyone is excited. But then something goes wrong. Their time machine malfunctions and they are thrown out of the space/time continuum in the year 2004.
The coffee machine of a small company is the scene of discussions between employees. Private life, professional life, gossip, mockery, ... everything goes!
Alien supervillain Killface wants to destroy Earth. Billionaire playboy Xander Crews realizes he can make more money if he stops him. Who will win?
The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.
A goofy, gullible sea captain is hired to helm a high-end cruise ship and becomes the perfect fall guy for an illicit smuggling operation.
The whacky adventures of Ned Bigby and his best pals Moze and Cookie at James K. Polk Middle School, as "every-kid" Ned shatters the fourth wall to share tips and tricks on navigating middle school or junior high hurdles. Ned's not super cool, and he has no superpowers. He is, however, witty, well-groomed, upbeat and self-aware. Moreover, with more than a little help from his two best friends, he's equipped to conquer middle school minefields. From crushing bullies to crushes, from off- the-wall, mean and cool teachers to pop quizzes, elections and detentions, Ned knows that nothing, including the seventh grade, is as bad as it seems, and friendship matters most.
A topical comedy show, mixing stand-up with sketches and impressions, starring David Baddiel, Robert Newman, Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt.
Blue Collar TV is a television program that aired on The WB Television Network with lead actors Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy. The show's humor dealt principally with contemporary American society, and especially hillbilly, redneck, and Southern stereotypes. The show was greenlighted on the heels of the success of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, which the series' three lead actors toured with in the early-mid-2000s. It was created by Fax Bahr and Adam Small, in addition to J.P. Williams and Jeff Foxworthy. Blue collar is a US phrase used to describe manual laborers, as opposed to white collar for office or professional workers. Fellow Blue Collar Comedy Tour costar Ron White declined to star on Blue Collar TV due to a fear of being typecast as "blue collar." However, he guest-starred on many episodes of the show. On his 2006 comedy album, You Can't Fix Stupid, White jokingly cited his own lack of work ethic as a reason for not participating more on the show. Unlike most sketch comedy programs, each episode of Blue Collar TV was generally centered around a theme, which Foxworthy revealed at the start of each episode. Themes included "Food", "Kids", and "Stupidity", among others, with Foxworthy generally performing a short comedic monologue based on the theme. Most sketches in each episode featured at least one of the three Blue Collar Comedy Tour veterans in an acting role, but the second season saw more sketches featuring the 6 other cast members exclusively.
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show, hosted by British-born actress and onetime pop singer Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5, 1987 as the Fox network's second primetime series after Married... with Children (1987–1997), and ran until May 26, 1990. The show is produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television. The show blended sketch comedy shorts with many musical numbers, featuring choreography by Paula Abdul. The show also produced The Simpsons shorts before it spun off into its own show, which was also produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television.
Multi-talented Kate Robbins and her comedian brother Ted appeared in their own Saturday night tea-time show from Granada TV. Here Kate impersonates, amongst others, Victoria Wood, Cilla Black, Tina Turner, Carmen Miranda and Fergie, Duchess Of York!
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Kath & Kim is a character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship. The series main characters consist of Kath Day-Knight, a cheerful 50-year-old woman, her self-indulgent daughter Kim Craig, Kath's boyfriend and second husband, the metrosexual Kel Knight, as well as Kim's estranged husband Brett Craig and her lonely, overweight "second best friend" Sharon Strzelecki. The series is set in the fictional suburb of Fountain Lakes in Melbourne. It is primarily filmed in Patterson Lakes. The series was conceived by Turner and Riley in the early 1990s as a weekly segment of the Australian comedy series Fast Forward. The skit was then developed into a full-series. The first series of Kath & Kim premiered on ABC TV on 16 May 2002, with three further series following, while a television movie, entitled Da Kath and Kim Code, was broadcast nationally on 25 November 2005. Kath & Kim has garnered much critical acclaim since its debut, winning two Logie Awards, for "Outstanding Comedy Programme" and the "Best Television Drama Series" award at the Australian Film Institute Awards. In Australia, it has become a pop culture phenomenon, and is a success with audiences nationwide. Internationally, the series has spawned a cult fanbase, and in 2006 it was announced an American version of the series would be produced, to air on NBC. Riley and Turner served as executive producers on the US version. The American version was also picked up by Seven, which debuted the program on 12 October 2008, just three days after its debut in the United States.
The coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man.
Four jobless friends living in the suburbs or more correctly town struggling to cope up with daily problems . Added by their weird idiosyncrasies , can they find a way to manage themselves; before things get scary as like in the title.
Chewin' the Fat is a Scottish comedy sketch show, starring Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill and Karen Dunbar. Comedians Paul Riley and Mark Cox also appeared regularly on the show. Chewin' the Fat first started as a radio series on BBC Radio Scotland. The later television show, which ran for four series, was first broadcast on BBC One Scotland, but series three and four, as well as highlights from the first two series, were later broadcast to the rest of the United Kingdom. Although the last series ended in February 2002, 6 Hogmanay specials were broadcast and offered on DVD when purchasing the Scottish Sun between 2000 to 2005, one every year. Chewin' the Fat gave rise to the spin-off show Still Game, a sitcom focusing on the two old male characters Jack and Victor. The series was mostly filmed in and around Glasgow and occasionally West Dunbartonshire. The English idiom to chew the fat means to chat casually, but thoroughly, about subjects of mutual interest.
Goodness Gracious Me is a BBC English language sketch comedy show originally aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998 and later televised on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The ensemble cast were four British Indian actors, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. The show explored the conflict and integration between traditional Indian culture and modern British life. Some sketches reversed the roles to view the British from an Indian perspective, and others poked fun at Indian stereotypes. In the television series most of the white characters were played by Dave Lamb and Fiona Allen; in the radio series those parts were played by the cast themselves. The show's title and theme tune is a bhangra rearrangement of a hit comedy song of the same name. The original was performed by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren reprising their characters from the 1960 film The Millionairess. The show's original working title was "Peter Sellers is Dead", but was changed because the cast generally liked Peter Sellers. In her 1996 novel Anita and Me, Syal had referred to British parodies of Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent". One of the more famous sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few lassis. They mispronounce the waiter's name, order the blandest thing on the menu and ask for twenty-four plates of chips. The sketch parodies often-drunk English people "going out for an Indian", ordering chicken phall and too many papadums. This sketch was voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch on a Channel 4 list show.
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13 episodes • 1969Avg: 7.5Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whither Canada? | Oct 5, 1969 | 7.8 |
| 2 | Sex and Violence | Oct 12, 1969 | 7.7 |
| 3 | How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away | Oct 19, 1969 | 8.0 |
| 4 | Owl Stretching Time | Oct 26, 1969 | 7.5 |
| 5 | Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century | Nov 16, 1969 | 7.8 |
| 6 | It's the Arts | Nov 23, 1969 | 7.1 |
| 7 | Oh, You're No Fun Anymore | Nov 30, 1969 | 7.2 |
| 8 | Full Frontal Nudity | Dec 7, 1969 | 7.3 |
| 9 | The Ant, An Introduction | Dec 14, 1969 | 7.5 |
| 10 | Untitled | Dec 21, 1969 | 7.3 |
| 11 | The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom | Dec 28, 1969 | 7.1 |
| 12 | The Naked Ant | Jan 4, 1970 | 7.2 |
| 13 | Intermission | Jan 11, 1970 | 7.4 |
13 episodes • 1970Avg: 7.5Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Face the Press | Sep 15, 1970 | 7.8 |
| 2 | The Spanish Inquisition | Sep 22, 1970 | 7.8 |
| 3 | Déjà Vu | Sep 29, 1970 | 7.8 |
| 4 | The Buzz Aldrin Show | Oct 20, 1970 | 7.8 |
| 5 | Live from the Grill-O-Mat | Oct 27, 1970 | 7.0 |
| 6 | It's a Living | Nov 3, 1970 | 6.5 |
| 7 | The Attila the Hun Show | Nov 11, 1970 | 7.5 |
| 8 | Archaeology Today | Nov 17, 1970 | 7.4 |
| 9 | How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body | Nov 24, 1970 | 7.5 |
| 10 | Scott of the Antarctic | Dec 1, 1970 | 7.2 |
| 11 | How Not to Be Seen | Dec 8, 1970 | 7.5 |
| 12 | Spam | Dec 15, 1970 | 7.9 |
| 13 | Royal Episode 13 | Dec 22, 1970 | 7.6 |
13 episodes • 1972Avg: 7.3
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whicker's World | Oct 19, 1972 | 7.2 |
| 2 | Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular | Oct 26, 1972 | 7.3 |
| 3 | The Money Programme | Nov 2, 1972 | 6.6 |
| 4 | Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror | Nov 9, 1972 | 7.7 |
| 5 | The All-England Summarise Proust Competition | Nov 16, 1972 | 7.2 |
| 6 | The War Against Pornography | Nov 23, 1972 | 7.4 |
| 7 | Salad Days | Nov 30, 1972 | 7.6 |
| 8 | The Cycling Tour | Dec 7, 1972 | 6.9 |
| 9 | The Nude Organist | Dec 14, 1972 | 7.3 |
| 10 | E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease | Dec 21, 1972 | 7.9 |
| 11 | Dennis Moore | Jan 4, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 12 | A Book at Bedtime | Jan 11, 1973 | 7.7 |
| 13 | Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards) | Jan 18, 1973 | 6.5 |
6 episodes • 1974Avg: 6.7Valley of Despair
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Golden Age of Ballooning | Oct 31, 1974 | 6.7 |
| 2 | Michael Ellis | Nov 7, 1974 | 7.1 |
| 3 | The Light Entertainment War | Nov 14, 1974 | 6.5 |
| 4 | Hamlet | Nov 21, 1974 | 6.5 |
| 5 | Mr. Neutron | Nov 28, 1974 | 7.1 |
| 6 | Party Political Broadcast | Dec 5, 1974 | 6.3 |