The art of TV comedy is distilled into its purest essence in the format of a sketch show. Sketch comedies have been entertaining viewers at home since the 1940s, when variety shows like Texaco Star ...

Nate Bargatze explained how even the most popular sketch can be dead on arrival at Saturday Night Live.

This isn’t meant to be answered with certainty, but for a moment, ask yourself: What is the single best comedy sketch of all time? From any source — Abbott & Costello, Monty Python, “Saturday Night ...

The Second City comedy troupe got into the sketch comedy TV business one year after SNL. Their premise was that the Second City Television network would air different sketches. Comedy legends John ...

Sketch comedy has changed a lot since its vaudeville days. Once confined to a stage, sketches unleashed themselves on our big glowing boxes (TVs) before lying in wait on the Internet, ready to be ...

Second City’s newest mainstage show combines sketch comedy, improv and an awareness of the real world. We go backstage.

Actor and comedian Griffin Newman (credit where credit is due) has a theory: that Bob Odenkirk is unquestionably the greatest sketch comedy actor of all time. By that he means he’s not necessarily the ...

Amy Schumer and Nikki Glaser share a birthday, which sounds like something AI would hallucinate, but it is, in fact, true — I ...

Ralph Jones, 50% of sketch group The Awkward Silence, explains why live sketch performing is great, despite it supposedly being the 'least attractive, most socially challenged sibling of the comedy ...

It’s tempting to say that YouTube and the internet has killed sketch comedy on TV. Why grab your remote to sit through a grab bag of sketches when you can pick and choose online? Like the album and ...