Nerve.com and IFC the other day came out with a list of the 50 greatest comedy sketches of all time. It's worth checking out, if only because you're bound to catch brilliant stuff you've never seen before- for instance, this was my first exposure to both the State's orphan game show bit, and Mr. Show's "Pre-Taped Call-in Show."
Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" is #1, which is inarguable, but I can argue with #s 50, 49, 48- SNL's "More Cowbell," UCB's "Ass Pennies" and SNL's "Gerald Ford Dead," which all should've been in the top ten. Also, some unforgivable omissions: Chappelle's "Clayton Bigsby: Black White Supremacist," several SNL bits, including the Penis sketch and the Clarence Thomas parody, and this, the Vacant Lot's treatise on the lyrics of "Blinded by the Light":
The Vacant Lot - Blinded by the Light
Also, nothing from Boris' Kitchen.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 12, 2008 12:14 PMGod bless the State....
Posted by: Tommy at April 12, 2008 09:11 PMBoris' is now www.boriskitchen.com.
I CAN'T BELIEVE HE'S NUDE!!!
Posted by: LilB at April 15, 2008 12:52 PMOMG! I didn't think anyone else even WATCHED the Vacant Lot. I loved that show!
Posted by: Marti at April 16, 2008 12:18 PM