Op 11 oktober 1975 om 23.30 uur veranderde een woeste groep jonge komieken en schrijvers de televisie voor altijd. Dit is het verhaal van wat er achter de schermen gebeurde in de 90 minuten voorafgaand aan de eerste uitzending van Saturday Night Live.
Bo Burnham filmde deze muzikale comedyspecial in zijn eentje tijdens een zeer ongebruikelijk jaar. Hij is ook de enige acteur.
Een groep middelbare scholieren gaat op reis in de hoop snel hun maagdelijkheid te verliezen. Het lukt de tiener Chuck (Muniz) om z'n maagdelijkheid te verliezen aan zijn vriendin Betty (Schneider). Hij komt er al snel achter dat Betty met hun seksleven extreem wil gaan experimenteren.
Regisseur Ian McNaughton liet de beste sketches uit de tv-serie Monty Python's Flying Circus voor bioscoopgebruik opnieuw opnemen in - wat John Cleese noemde - 'hun natuurlijke omgeving': in echte restaurants, winkels, kantoren en met meer figuranten.
Een legendarische producent is dood en vertoeft in de hemel. Hij bedenkt een show volgens het motto 'the show must go on' en presenteert vanuit de hemel dertien shownummers, van grote revueballetten tot danssolo's en tapdans.
Parodie op alle filmgenres van de jaren zeventig met een serie korte losjes verbonden sketches. De film waarmee het trio Jim Abrahams en David en Jerry Zucker (Airplane!, Naked Gun) beroemd werd.
Monty Python heeft ontegenzeggelijk een plaats tussen 's werelds beste comedians ooit, ze hebben een hele generatie beïnvloed en gezorgd voor een revolutie in comedy. Samen tellen ze ‘maar’ 358 jaar en ze zijn er helemaal klaar voor om nog één keer te schitteren. De finale reunie werd 20 juli 2014 opgenomen. Hierin stonden John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones en Michael Palin weer samen op het podium voor de eerste keer sinds hun optreden in de Hollywood Bowl op 15 september 1980.
John Cleese presenteert samen met de Monty Python-crew een show waarin les wordt gegeven over hoe je mensen moet irriteren. Of nee... een complete zenuwinzinking kan laten oplopen.
Deze hilarische comedyspecial van Seth Rogen en vrienden biedt een combinatie van stand-up, sketches en muziek die alleen Seth kan bedenken. Met o.a. Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman, Michelle Wolf, John Mulaney, Michael Che, David Chang, Ike Barinholtz, Chelsea Peretti, Kumail Nanjiani, Jon Lovitz, Jeff Goldblum, Sacha Baron Cohen, Nick Kroll, Post Malone, Chris Hardwick en Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious.
Komediegroep 'The Whitest Kids U Know' presenteert een film die twee jonge mannen volgt die ten onrechte denken dat de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog wordt gevoerd vanwege de legalisering van marihuana. Ze sluiten zich aan bij de zaak en beginnen aan een reis die hen oog in oog brengt met de Unie, de Zuidelijken, de Pony Express en uiteindelijk Abraham Lincoln zelf.
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 Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is an American sketch comedy television series, created by and starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, which premiered February 11, 2007 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim comedy block and ran until May 2010. The program features surrealistic and often satirical humor, public-access television–style musical acts, bizarre faux-commercials, and editing and special effects chosen to make the show appear camp. The program featured a wide range of actors, spanning from stars such as Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Will Forte and Zach Galifianakis, to alternative comedians like Neil Hamburger, to television actors like Alan Thicke, celebrity look-alikes and impressionists. The creators of the show have described it as "the nightmare version of television."
Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.
An Israeli satire show featuring satirical references to current affairs of the past week through parodies of the people involved, as well as the thoughts of recurring characters. One of the most watched and influential shows on Israeli TV.
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."
Korea's version of the late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory cast members.
A series of pop-culture parodies using stop-motion animation of toys, action figures and dolls. The title character was an ordinary chicken until he was run down by a car and subsequently brought back to life in cyborg form by mad scientist Fritz Huhnmorder, who tortures Robot Chicken by forcing him to watch a random selection of TV shows, the sketches that make up the body of each episode.
Korea's version of the late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory cast members.
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.
Full Frontal was an Australian sketch comedy series which debuted in 1993. The show first aired on the Seven Network on 13 May 1993, and finished on 18 September 1997. In 1998 a spin-off of the show moved to Network Ten under the name Totally Full Frontal, losing most of the original cast in the process and finished in 1999. Since 2008, re-runs have begun screening on The Comedy Channel as part of the channel's "Aussie Gold" block of locally made, classic comedy programming.
The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.
Nick Cannon and an A-list celebrity lead a team of improv comedians as they compete against each other.
Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome and funny moments, with topics including the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, the Egyptians and the Romans, among others.
A fresh live comedy sketch series that explores the funny side of everyday life.
Comedy Nights with Kapil is a comedy show which provides a distinctive take on the everyday life of a common man as the show explores the story of every household and how our common man Kapil is affected by the simplest issues in life around him.
Os Trapalhões was a Brazilian comedy group and also a Brazilian television series created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó, that was played by Renato Aragão. The name Trapalhões is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar, which means the opposite of helping, to do something the wrong way or to Those that confuse. The name is translated "Tramps" in English DVD subtitles. It was aired by Rede Globo from 1977 to 1999. On March 18, 1990, Zacarias died due to respiratory failure, but the group and the series didn't come to an end until July 29, 1994, when Mussum died due to an unsuccessful heart transplant.
Based on Scott Aukerman’s popular podcast of the same name, COMEDY BANG! BANG! cleverly riffs on the well-known format of the late night talk show, infusing celebrity appearances and comedy sketches with a tinge of the surreal. In each episode, Aukerman engages his guests with unfiltered and improvisational lines of questioning, punctuated by banter and beats provided by bandleader, one-man musical mastermind Reggie Watts, to reinvent the traditional celebrity interview. Packed with character cameos, filmic shorts, sketches and games set amongst an off-beat world, COMEDY BANG! BANG! delivers thirty minutes of absurd laugh-loaded fun featuring some of the biggest names in comedy.
RTL Samstag Nacht was a comedy show, which ran from 6 November 1993 to 23 May 1998 on the German TV network RTL. RTL Samstag Nacht was the first major comedy show in German television, created after the example of the long-running American show Saturday Night Live and broadcast late on Saturday night. It helped comedy in German television to a breakthrough and was a model for several later comedy shows. Karl Ranseier was a recurring character featured in fake news reports telling about his death at the end of each episode. The name Karl Ranseier has become a catchphrase in Germany that has led to its own joke category of Ranseiers which are in widespread usage outside of the comedy origin.
