The world’s best comedy doesn’t always come in sitcom form, but instead is served up as nuggets of funny in short sketches. Now in its 44th season and having introduced some of the world’s top comedy ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, as TV fans were being presented with the new Wild West of basic and premium cable, two channels were available for comedy junkies: The Comedy Channel and the simply ...

Harkening back to the days of vaudeville, sketch comedy has been making audiences laugh for well over a hundred years. Some of the greatest names in comedy, from Charlie Chaplin to Kristen Wiig got ...

From the time television entered mainstream culture, TV programming has mirrored our lives, evolving and shifting as society has grown and changed. In the '50s and '60s, there were crime dramas like ...

Unless you live in a major city like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Toronto, then chances are your primary exposure to sketch comedy is through television. At their best, sketch comedy TV shows ...