Movies: Sketch comedy

A pilot for a sketch comedy show. A single stationary camera was mounted inside the center of a large rotating platform. As the platform rotated around the camera, a scene would come into view of the camera. The wheel would stop and a sketch would pl...

Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley try to persuade the FCC to renew SCTV's license....

Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS....

A short series of 15 minute programmes, really expanded sketches, in which Tracey Ullman and Michael Palin play various roles satirizing the British class system....

Amnesty decided not to present a benefit show in 1978 in order to consider how to make better use of the performing talent so favourably disposed to assist it in raising funds. Peter Luff left Amnesty in 1978 and the organisation's new fund-raising o...

Hosted by modern day horror hosts and “queens of darkness” The Boulet Brothers, The Boulet Brothers’ Halfway to Halloween TV Special will be a mid-year variety show celebrating the “Halfway to Halloween” season for fans who just can’t wait until Octo...

Steve Martin's fourth NBC special was in the spirit of his previous association with Saturday Night Live. It was broadcast live from Studio 8H, produced by Lorne Michaels and featured some original cast members of the show....

Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "Yo...

A series of short comedy sketches featuring the topic of sex. They include: a French governess who paints her breasts; a couple having sex on the Candid Camera TV show; Little Lord Fauntleroy exploring a female body; a 'great white hunter' captured b...

Over 75,000 people have laughed, enjoyed themselves, and been impressed by Finn Nørbygård's latest hit show, "Finn & Co," which toured the major venues across the country at the beginning of the year. There were 54 performances in total. This time, h...

Aspiring actors take a workshop to learn to act with live sharks but bite off more than they can chew when the instructor turns out to be crazy....

JB and KG head out to the desert to expand their minds with LSD....

Holiday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublemaker "Gilly," and others. The special also features favorite holiday-themed sketches from SNL's 35-year history....

Red Nose Day is back, live from Media City UK, Salford. It’s the UK’s biggest night of comedy and entertainment, so make sure you don’t miss it! The epic three-hour fundraising favourite will entertain the nation with hilarious sketches, live perfor...

This variety show features some of South Africa's top comedians and celebrities in sketches parodying stereotypes, pop culture and race relations....

A series of comedy skits performed by some of Mexico's more popular comedians and actors....

The sixteenth entry in the sketch comedy series....

Shaun Micallef's World Around Him was an Australian sketch comedy television special. Its title is a parody of the Australian documentary series The World Around Us. Airing on the Seven Network in 1996, the special provided a major stepping stone for...

On the occasion of their 30th anniversary as recording artists, Monrad & Rislund embarked on an extensive tour to receive the people's unbridled and well-deserved tribute. This video gives the many who (obviously) could not attend the tribute an impr...

A short improvised featurette that accompanies the feature film TENACIOUS D: THE PICK OF DESTINY....