A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, improvisation is not necessarily involved i...
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TV programs of this genre:
- Saturday Night Live ,
- The Tony Hancock Show ,
- Teka Mona ,
- Team Antonsen ,
- Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul ,
- Fridays ,
- Comedy Inc. ,
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ,
- Attention Scum ,
- The Armstrong and Miller Show
