Sketch Comedy

   Next year, I plan to create an online sketch comedy show. I think that many sketch shows are truly hilarious (to me) but unfortunately, most of them get cancelled. For example, one of my favorite shows on MTV was Human Giant. This show was on from 2007 to 2008 and was written by comedians Aziz Ansari, Paul Scheer, and Rob Huebel. In a standup special, Aziz Ansari said that MTV let them have the creative control but then said,"Some shows on MTV are not my cup of tea. Mainly because I don't like huge pieces of shit in my tea." Human Giant was comprised of short skits that I found hilarious and compared to SNL, Human Giant was by far, higher up in the humor department.

    Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, another sketch show, premiered on Comedy Central but was then cancelled after only two years on the air. Nick Swardson's standup is hilarious and he changed his jokes into skits. The skits were quite immature but humorous nonetheless. Nick Swardson is still well-known in the stand-up community but he's yet to star in another Grandma's Boy type movie.

    Chapelle's Show was one of the greatest shows ever made in my opinion. It was only on for three years prior to Dave Chapelle's strange hiatus. The show was filled with hilarious skits and characters and Dave Chapelle would do stand-up bits during each episode. He poked fun at racial tension and his skits pushed boundaries and some would claim they went too far. The show made fun of real problems in the world and forced people to look at them differently.

Now, my new favorite sketch show is Comedy Central's Key And Peele. The shows stars comedians Keagan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. This show is similar to Chapelle's Show because it pokes fun at racial problems and stereotypes. Once again, it is boundary pushing comedy that causes people to think and pokes fun at problems to show the ridiculousness of their real life nature. The Nick Kroll Show, a Comedy Central sketch show, airs sometime next year and looks promising. The only downfall of sketch shows are that sketches can either be hit or miss. I would say that 1/3 of sketches during a sketch show are well written and humorous.