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Who's on First? is a comedy routine performed by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, originating in their burlesque and vaudeville work of the late 1930s. The sketch is built on a misunderstanding in which Costello asks the names of baseball players and Abbott replies with proper nouns that double as quest...

'More Cowbell' is a comedy sketch from a 2000 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live, featuring Will Ferrell as fictional cowbell player Gene Frenkle. In the sketch, Christopher Walken portrays a record producer who repeatedly demands 'more cowbell' during a Blue Öyster Cult recording session of '(Don...

The Argument Clinic is a comedy sketch from the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, first broadcast in 1972 on BBC Two. In the sketch, Michael Palin's character visits a clinic where he pays for five minutes of argument with John Cleese, only to discover that he receives systemat...

The Spanish Inquisition is a recurring comedy sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, first broadcast in 1970 on BBC Two. The premise involves three inquisitors in red robes—played by Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam—who burst into scenes declaring 'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisit...

Dead Parrot is a comedy sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, first broadcast in 1969 on BBC One. John Cleese portrays a customer attempting to return a recently purchased 'Norwegian Blue' parrot to a pet shop owner played by Michael Palin, who insists the bird is merely resting despite clear ev...

The Ministry of Silly Walks is a comedy sketch performed by the British group Monty Python, debuting in 1970. It features John Cleese as a civil servant named Mr. Teabags who works in a fictional government department dedicated to developing absurd walking styles. The sketch parodies bureaucratic in...

"Four Candles" is a 1976 sketch from the BBC's The Two Ronnies, written by Ronnie Barker. In the sketch, a hardware shopkeeper (Ronnie Corbett) repeatedly misinterprets a customer's (Barker) requests due to phonetic ambiguity, most famously confusing "four candles" with "fork handles." The sketch bu...

Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker is a comedy sketch that aired on the American television program Saturday Night Live in 1993. The segment was created by and starred Chris Farley as the titular character, an abrasive and physically demonstrative man who claims to live in a van down by the river. The...

"Spam" is a comedy sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, first broadcast in 1970 as part of the show's second series. Written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin, the sketch is set in a café where nearly every item on the menu includes the canned pork product Spam, and a chorus of Vikings repeatedl...

"The Four Yorkshiremen" is a comedy sketch that parodies the human tendency to engage in competitive nostalgia and one-upmanship regarding past hardships. It was originally written and performed in 1967 on the British television show "At Last the 1948 Show" by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham...

"Are We the Baddies?" is a comedic sketch from the 2006 British television series That Mitchell and Webb Look. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, the sketch features two German SS officers during World War II who slowly begin to question whether they are the villains of the conflict after noti...

"The Cheese Shop" is a comedy sketch from the British television series "Monty Python's Flying Circus." The sketch features John Cleese as a polite customer attempting to purchase cheese from a shop run by Michael Palin. Cleese asks for a wide variety of specific, obscure, and well-known cheeses, on...

Monty Python's Life of Brian is a 1979 British satirical comedy film directed by Terry Jones and starring the Monty Python comedy troupe. The plot follows Brian Cohen, a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as Jesus and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah. The film is recognized for its...

"The Lumberjack Song" is a comedic song written by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson, debuting in the 1969 television series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The sketch features a rugged outdoorsman who unexpectedly reveals his preference for wearing women's clothing, pressing wild flowers...

"Mastermind: Answering the Question Before Last" is a comedy sketch performed by Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker on their British television series *The Two Ronnies*. A parody of the quiz show *Mastermind*, the sketch features Corbett as a contestant seated in a darkened chair under a spotlight. Wh...

Lazy Sunday is a Saturday Night Live Digital Short that aired in 2005 and helped establish the show's online-short format. Created by the Lonely Island and performed by Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell, it presents the two as earnest rappers spending a low-key day in New York. Their rhymes center on m...

'How Not to Be Seen' is a Monty Python sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, styled as a spoof instructional film. A narrator explains techniques for remaining hidden, then demonstrates by revealing and eliminating each concealed subject through gunfire or explosions. The premise is delivered in...

'The Goon Show' was a British radio comedy program broadcast on the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960. It was primarily written by Spike Milligan and featured an ensemble cast that included Milligan, Peter Sellers, and Harry Secombe. The show's narrative structure abandoned logical plot progression...

The Quiz Broadcast is a recurring post-apocalyptic sketch from the British television series That Mitchell and Webb Look. Set in a ruined underground bunker, the sketch parodies a television game show where contestants answer trivia questions while dodging unseen horrors outside. The broadcast is fr...

Went With the Wind! is a comedy sketch that aired on The Carol Burnett Show in 1976 as a parody of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. It features Carol Burnett playing the character Starlet O'Hara, wearing a dress made from a window curtain, complete with the curtain rod still attached across her sho...

Stefon is a recurring fictional character on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, portrayed by comedian Bill Hader. Introduced in 2008, the character serves as a city correspondent for the Weekend Update segment, where he provides recommendations for tourists visiting New York City. His...

Chippendales Audition is a comedic sketch from the American television show Saturday Night Live, broadcast in 1990. The scene features actors Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze auditioning against each other for a single spot as a male exotic dancer at a Chippendales club. The sketch is widely recogniz...

"Dick in a Box" is a comedy music video and digital short that aired on Saturday Night Live in December 2006. Created by the comedy trio The Lonely Island—Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone—the short features Samberg and guest host Justin Timberlake as two R&B singers. They present a st...

SCTV Network 90 is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that expanded the original Second City Television format to a 90-minute runtime. Premiering in 1981, the show was created by and starred a cast of veteran improvisational comedians from the Toronto Second City stage, including John Candy,...

"The Family: Sorry!" is a recurring comedy sketch from the American television program "The Carol Burnett Show." The sketch features Carol Burnett as the beleaguered Eunice Higgins and Vicki Lawrence as her sharp-tongued mother, Thelma Harper, widely known as Mama. In this specific installment, Euni...

Going for an English is a satirical comedy sketch from the BBC television program Goodness Gracious Me. The sketch reverses the traditional behavior of British patrons visiting a curry house by showing a group of Indian friends drunkenly visiting a traditional English restaurant late at night. They...

Ted and Ralph are recurring characters from the BBC sketch comedy series The Fast Show (1994–1997). Ralph is a socially awkward English aristocrat and landowner, while Ted is his reserved Irish groundskeeper. Played by Charlie Higson (Ralph) and Paul Whitehouse (Ted), their sketches revolve around R...

Aerobics Meltdown is a sketch from Key & Peele, the Comedy Central sketch comedy series starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele that ran from 2012 to 2015. Styled as a 1980s exercise broadcast, the sketch depicts a televised fitness competition in which a contestant receives increasingly devast...

"The Chris Farley Show" is a recurring sketch on the American late-night comedy program Saturday Night Live, performed by cast member Chris Farley during the early 1990s. In the sketch, Farley portrays a highly excitable and nervous television host who interviews real celebrity guests. The humor der...