For almost 50 years now, Saturday Night Live has delivered audiences with many iconic comedy sketches. Coneheads, Stefon, Spartan Cheerleaders, and Mary Katherine Gallagher are only a few of the many ...

As arguably the best sketch-comedy series on TV right now, Netflix’s absurdist I Think You Should Leave (created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin) has been subject to lengthy critique and analysis — ...

When did you last see a good sketch show? More pressingly, when did you last see a sketch show? It’s been 15 years – practically an entire geological period in TV time – since the end of That Mitchell ...

Room 015 of the Fine Arts Building will be full of laughter as IU’s Backdoor Comedy performs its second show of the semester Saturday night. Though IU is home to many comedy groups, Backdoor Comedy ...

When Andrew Neil McGonagle was an FBI-trained sketch artist working as a Cape and Islands criminal investigator, colleagues often told him he should publish a book of sketches. (Not of wanted people ...

‘The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor’ by Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key. (Chronicle) Keegan-Michael and Elle know more than a few of the Key characteristics of ...

When “The State” debuted on MTV in January 1994, there was no reason to believe the series would become a landmark in sketch comedy. “It’s so terrible it deserves to be studied,” said a New York Daily ...