Guest Vern Gagne Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Pound for Pound the funniest is SCTV. Battle of the PBS Stars, Count Floyd, Mel's Rock Pile. Great skits, great cast.
Guest Youth N Asia Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Kids in the Hall for me If you are going to list SNL you should have added a year, cause the first group was good, and the early 90s group was good...but the newest group is the shits
Guest IDrinkRatsMilk Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 I'm adding a write in vote for the Upright Citizens Brigade. After that, it's a tie between the Kids in the Hall and the Mr. Show group.
Guest JHawk Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Monty Python for me. I never really got into Kids in the Hall for some reason, I haven't watched Mad TV since season 1, and YNA is right when he says you have to include a year for SNL.
Guest starvenger Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 I love Monty Python, but SCTV is still my favourite...
Guest notJames Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Gotta mention In Living Colour and Fridays, since both shows launched a lot of careers, like Jim Carrey, the Wayans, J-Lo (blech!), Michael Richards, Larry David... and who could forget how Andy Kaufman caused yet another late night TV ruckus by "sabotaging" their show live. Classic!
Guest Youth N Asia Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 This is a long shot...but does anybody remember the Uptown Comedy Club? It was pretty much an almost all black SNL type show, but done on a smaller stage in front of crowds. I remember it coming on years ago after SNL...I'm sure it wasn't like that in most tv markets. Tracy Morgan and Jim Brewer were there before they went to SNL. Their best bit was where they would have guys in tag teams telling "yo mamma" jokes...those were the days
Yuna_Firerose Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Mad TV by default for me, since I've only seen a few episodes of SNL, and none of the rest. Besides, what can beat Stuart? Or Ms. Swan?
Guest Youth N Asia Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Mad TV by default for me, since I've only seen a few episodes of SNL, and none of the rest. Besides, what can beat Stuart? Or Ms. Swan? Just about anything...Ms Swan is one of unfunniest things ever put on tv.
Guest KingOfOldSchool Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 I'm putting in a write-in vote for the Mr. Show group. Runners-up would be the Kids in the Hall and Monty Python.
Guest Bosstones Fan Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Just about anything...Ms Swan is one of unfunniest things ever put on tv. Agreed. I'd rather sit through a four-hour marathon session of commercials for feminine hygeine products than watch 5 minutes of Ms. Swan.
Guest IDrinkRatsMilk Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 I never really enjoyed Ms Swan, but she really wouldn't be so terrible if she wasn't so oversaturated. Always every sketch comedy show is guilty of running characters in the ground. UCB, Mr. Show, and Kids in the Hall never really did, and that's part of why they're my favorites.
Guest Youth N Asia Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 I'm adding a write in vote for the Upright Citizens Brigade. After that, it's a tie between the Kids in the Hall and the Mr. Show group. I would consider them if they had worked in front of a live crowd
Guest IDrinkRatsMilk Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 They did work in front of a live crowd occasionally. When they would do sketches on the street and what not.
Guest ant_7000 Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 I've have to In Living Color it launch a lot stars on the show and it put Fox on the map. Apollo's Uptown Comedy Club especially for " The Bold the Black and the Beautiful" soap opera skits and those two Jamaican Guys. I like SNL in the late 80's to the mid 90's
Guest godthedog Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 I never really enjoyed Ms Swan, but she really wouldn't be so terrible if she wasn't so oversaturated. Always every sketch comedy show is guilty of running characters in the ground. UCB, Mr. Show, and Kids in the Hall never really did, and that's part of why they're my favorites. kids in the hall relied a LOT on recurring characters. more than most did. monty python's flying circus is and always will be the gold standard for sketch comedy. saturday night live started as a straight rip-off of it (which the early SNL alumni readily admit), and almost all the groups on this poll got the whole format of their shows (the stream-of-consciousness approach, using links between sketches rather than definite beginnings & endings, finding ways to bring the sketches together into a cohesive whole) directly from the python formula. and python still did the format better than anybody else did (although the state and UCB did come pretty close). as dave foley said himself, "monty python were the beatles." nobody else was as energetic or original. honorable mention goes to the state though. god i love that show. i remembered some things about it from when i was a kid, but i went back and watched a bunch of those episodes and that show is amazing.
Guest IDrinkRatsMilk Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 Yeah, they did recurring characters, but they didn't get old, they did them in the right ratio. At least that's how it was to me.
Guest Dmann2000 Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Python was the best because besides the Gumbies and the Pepperpots, and occasional authority figures they had No reoccuring characters, And Gilliam's animations were twisted in the coolest sense, Robert Smiegel's got nothing on Gilliam (Happy cause I own the complete series on DVD)
Guest Youth N Asia Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 I never really enjoyed Ms Swan, but she really wouldn't be so terrible if she wasn't so oversaturated. Always every sketch comedy show is guilty of running characters in the ground. UCB, Mr. Show, and Kids in the Hall never really did, and that's part of why they're my favorites. kids in the hall relied a LOT on recurring characters. more than most did. In fairness to Kids, they only had 5 regular members. It's not like SNL where they would get new guys every couple years when the current ones got stale. Although The Chickenlady didn't do much for me...but shoe/music salesman Evan made me mark out. Evan: "I sell shoes!" Devil: "And you will forever!" Evan: "THANK YOU SATAN!" or something like that
Guest the saiyan prince Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Kids in the Hall for me If you are going to list SNL you should have added a year, cause the first group was good, and the early 90s group was good...but the newest group is the shits youth n asia i agree the kids in the hall are hilarious i loved their movie brain candy that movie was off the hook
Guest TheZsaszHorsemen Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Here's a simple test: Are any of the SNL movies better than Life of Brian? Didn't think so. Oh and the best recurring character on Kids in the Hall was Forgetful Asshole Guy. "Slipped my miiiiind." and " Tell ya what I'll do..." are mark-outs for me.
Guest TheZsaszHorsemen Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Python was the best because besides the Gumbies and the Pepperpots, and occasional authority figures they had No reoccuring characters, And Gilliam's animations were twisted in the coolest sense, Robert Smiegel's got nothing on Gilliam (Happy cause I own the complete series on DVD) Dimmesdale? "And Now for Something Completely Different."? Nudge Nudge? "Want to come back to my place?" They had a few recurring guys that you missed.
Guest MDH257 Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Kids in the Hall SNL should be seperated into eras, I haven't seen enough of SCTV or Monty Python (Damn NBC affiliate prempted the SCTV reruns when the were on after Conan).
Guest converge241 Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 WHERE THE HELL IS THE STATE?!?
Guest chirs3 Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 What? No Roundhouse? Kids In The Hall gets my vote.
Guest Youth N Asia Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 What? No Roundhouse? Kids In The Hall gets my vote. I was thinking of that earlier...I watched Roundhouse when it first came on. Good sketch show for kids
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