The Birthday Boys’ style drew comparisons to early Kids In The Hall and other all-timers as they gently poked at cliches like heartstring twisting human interest stories and rom-com fairytales across ...

To clear matters up for your well-meaning parents, here are a couple of things that sketch comedy isn’t: It’s not standup, which involves only one person telling jokes presentationally before an ...

People often search for phrases such as 'how to write a sketch', 'writing funny sketches', 'scripting a comedic short', 'sketch comedy writing techniques' and 'sketch comedy for beginners'. So, with ...

This isn’t meant to be answered with certainty, but for a moment, ask yourself: What is the single best comedy sketch of all time? From any source — Abbott & Costello, Monty Python, “Saturday Night ...

With this last article on the history of sketch comedy, I wanted to take the opportunity to reevaluate the past, present, and future of the genre as I’ve laid it out over the last six months. First of ...

To link in with Chris Head's online sketch comedy writing course, here is a blog from Chris addressing that most challenging part of sketch writing - ending them! One of the hardest parts of writing a ...

Earlier we looked at the rise and importance of sketch comedy. Today we talk to Paul Scheer, Jonathan Stern and more about sketch comedy’s future. No. Yes. Maybe? Putting aside the obvious practical ...

Sketch comedy has changed a lot since its vaudeville days. Once confined to a stage, sketches unleashed themselves on our big glowing boxes (TVs) before lying in wait on the Internet, ready to be ...

When “A Black Lady Sketch Show” production designers Cindy Chao and Michele Yu sat down to determine which episode of the comedy series they’d submit for Emmy consideration, they kept one key factor ...