The Greatest Comedy Sketches of All-Time

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Whether or not you're a cannabis enthusiast, do yourself a favor and go look up the movie "How High" starting Method Man and Red Man. It has always been up there for me.

I will try to do this.

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This is.

[Jizaboz]

Laugh it up

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I am not saying this is one of the best ever, but it came up at work today, so I am going to include it.

"All The Food is Poison" by Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

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"President Bill Clinton: Mother and Father to the Nation" by The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show



And I would like to also add the following, which is about a documentary about the Dana Carvey Show. Which was not on for very long.

One thing the Dana Carvey show did as a bit was have a different sponsor for each show and changed the name of it to reflect that. I believe they did actually lose a sponsor or sponsors as the show went on. Anyway. This, as Dana states, kind of says it all:

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Okay, that (the documentary clip) is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. We've all had a rough week, and that just TURNED IT AROUND, baby!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

This is from the last episode of the Kids in the Hall of the 90s.

"Censored Sketches" by The Kids in the Hall

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Hahaha

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"Bad Manager" by Beau Brooks

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I'm glad this qualifies.

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"Massive Headwound Harry" by Saturday Night Live

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

This is the greatest comedy sketch to ever exist. Let's get it.

"Pre-Taped Call-in Show" by Mr. Show with Bob and David

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That is the greatest comedy sketch to ever exist. I assumed it would close out the thread.

For fun, without looking, can you name all six show topics in chronological order?

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Also, I decided to finally watch the entire episode in which that sketch occurred, and I found myself just waiting for it to start, and then once it ended I hit "pause" and will or will not pick it up later.

I agree with my previous theory that some shows are buoyed by their best sketches. Particularly when one of them is, as you've stated, the greatest comedy sketch of all time.

[AArdvark]

I watched the Dana Carvey documentary sketch and it wasn't funny. Then I watched the Mother/Father to the Nation sketch and the Documentary sketch again and it was much better

[AArdvark]

It's nice too see Dana Carvey do something other than Garth. Headwound Harry was pretty funny

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I watched the Dana Carvey documentary sketch and it wasn't funny. Then I watched the Mother/Father to the Nation sketch and the Documentary sketch again and it was much better

Yeah. I guess the thing was, when The Dana Carvey Show premiered, I at least was pretty psyched. He was my favorite part of SNL and this is a whole show with just him?

As an older person I get what they were going for. Just from the first sketch (which I think the Clinton puppy one was) they were like, you're either with us or fuck off. Now of course I'd do the same thing if I could in some medium. Someone had to be the edgiest one doing the thing they were doing and I think it was them and they got their show dropped because of it.

[Flack]

I've been listening to Dana Carvey and David Spade's SNL podcast ("Fly on the Wall") and Carvey especially had a real love/hate relationship with a lot of those skits and characters. According to them, a lot of the skits were the result of guest hosts showing up and requesting to be in a "Church Lady" or "Wayne's World" skit. I say love/hate because as much as he complains about it I'm pretty sure he still cashes all those Wayne's World residual checks. But yeah, a lot of those off the wall skits like Headwound Harry were a way for them to get different types of humor out there.

I saw David Cross doing standup years ago in a club with a couple hundred people and it was so, so good.

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I have attempted to listen to Fly on the Wall. And look. I love those guys. I really do. They're both in this thread!!! But Dana obviously has ADHD and I feel they could use one more guy to help them stay on topic with their guests. OK? Don't hit me.

[Flack]

They do the awful thing where they talk more than their guests. Steve-O does the same thing.