Variety / Sketch Comedy

Variety / Sketch Comedy

Variety Comedy. It's funny and mocks life so check it out.

Spam, spam, spam. It's just a flesh wound.

Jane you ingnorant ......

Homey Don't play that.

Bingo!


Variety shows are could be seen as lab class for actors and comedians. They come up with ideas for skits and try different techniques until they find "the right stuff."

Saturday Night Live

Comedy is subjective. Not everyone likes the same thing. Somepeople love to watch people insult each other while others like to watch a guy smash fruits on stage.

A lot of great actors and comedians started out on Saturday Night Live.  You might have heard of some of the following newcomers.  (double entendre alert): Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Jim Belushi, Dana Carvy --- convenient!, Eddie Murphy, and lots and lots of people.  My memory is not helping me right now but you can find the full list of people somewhere on the net.

MAD

Sketch comedy often makes fun of celebrities or characters that we might be able to relate to. We might have met people like that in our lives.

In Living Color

Saturday Night Live has been around for "ever". It seems that people have just found it to be as necessary as breathing. It may always be there but we don't always pay attention to it. Politicians and singers are happy, usually, to put Saturday Night Life on their resumes.

Just For Laughs

MAD TV is similar to Saturday Night Live but it seems to rely mostly on their regular characters. In Living Colour is where we got to Jennifer Lopez dance and Jim Carey blow him self up......... (kids might be reading this so email me if you must know what I almost said)

Mr. Bean

This kind of comedy used sketches or skits to entertain. Many famous people started this way and others are famous on these shows on an ongoing basis. When God sneezes what do you say? Would you trust Mr. Bean with your child?

Monty Python.......it's only a flesh wound ....or is it?

Just For Laughs is in the Variety Section (This Category--see top of page) because people on the show do stand up, they do skits, and the show also has pranks. One part of Just For Laughs is the Comedy Festival in Montreal where comedians from all over North America and sometimes abroad.....and there sometimes is a broad......come to tell stories, make funny faces, and just make you laugh.

Punked is a great prank show.

I put Punked in this category because there is a cast that sets up a scenario and then people act like people in a situation while they Punk a celebrity. I might just put it in the reality category later but for now it is a set up so it should be here.

Another part of Just For Laughs is a variety show where a bunch of pranks are performed by a team of prankers. They might pretend to need help carrying something and when an unsuspecting person comes to help they pretend the thing falls and breaks. This makes the helper feel awful until the gag is exposed. It's like being punked but the the punkees are not famous. They are just like you and me.