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Ah yes! The
comedy-variety show that starred our very
own Ruth Buzzi as she was well remembered
in this show and appeared in just about
every variety show cause of this one.
This was the show that inspired the
makers of You Can't Do that On
Television and Whatever
Turns You On to make a childrens
version of the show as both shows had
short skits and the cast members used
their own names usually and like there
were locker jokes on YCDTOTV and on the
WTYO pilot on this show there were people
inside a wall with doors that they opened
and told jokes to one another.
Also, both shows had the same ending
theme song and when the closing credits
rolled there were still some skits
afterwards on both shows. Laugh-In
is one of T.V.'s classics. It brought
together some of the finest people in
comedic talent. It was original, witty,
strange, funny and kept the audience
asking for more.
Laugh-In began as a special on
September 9, 1967 and was so popular that
it became a series that premiered on
January 22, 1968.
It was an overnight sensation, and
immediately went to the top of the
ratings. It was on Monday nights opposite
of The Lucy Show and Gunsmoke.
However it proved itself by reaching the
number one spot in it's first two
seasons.
With site gags, trap doors and popular
catchprases, it became the "water
cooler" show of the sixties.
The show had many memorable skits
especially by Ruth Buzzi playing an old
lady whacking people with her purse as
her character from WTYO did similar
slapstick as well as many "Sock it
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This is the
series with the similar population as
Laugh-In except it was a country
lifestyle variety type show which had
comedy skits and country style music too.
The series aired on June 15, 1969 on
CBS-TV. but was canceled in
1971 because the network thought it was
"too rural."
A majority of each week's "Hee
Haw" shows included a series of
skits, blackouts and corny jokes;
however, the meat of series came from its
music so the series ran up again and
became one of the longest running variety
shows in American TV history.
Each week, two or three country music
stars guested usually one or two of the
guests being well-established, the others
newer and up-and-coming stars as well as
bluegrass, country gospel and other acts,
signers and musicians popular with
country audiences.
During the final segment of each show,
the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet (through the
mid-1980s, usually co-hosts Owens and
Clark, along with Kenny Price and Grandpa
Jones) performed a gospel song.
The shows were taped only a few weeks out
of the year, usually weeks (and
sometimes, months) in advance; that meant
some of the short-lived "newer"
acts had already lost their star power by
the time the show they were featured in
had aired.
After it's long run, the series ceased in
1993 as during the 90's the series was
taken in a different direction so the
1992-93 season featured mainly featured
clips from classic "Hee Haw"
shows, along with new footage before the
plug was finalled pulled from the series. |
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There were
many late night TV shows but most of them
were just talk shows but that all changed
when this show first aired on October 11,
1975 as the show had comedy skits, a
celebebrity that hosted the show every
Saturday at midnight as well as a musical
guest which they performed two songs on
the episode as there were lots of them on
there promoting their new album's.
The show also had many popular skits that
turned into movies such as Wayne's World,
It's Pat, A Night at the Roxbury and
Superstar.
Plus it started off many careers of many
regulars such as Dan Aykroyd, Chevy
Chase, Billy Crystal, Jane Curtin, Julia
Louis-Dreyfuss, Laurie Metcalf, Dennis
Miller, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Chris
Rock and Adam Sandler.
This was definetely like an adult version
of WTYO.
The show is still running strong with new
regulars each time as well as new hosts
and musical guests but is not as well
done nowadays. |
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Oh yes!!! A
show that attracted the same viewers as
WTYO and YCDTOTV created by Jim Henson
who did the same for Sesame
Street and Fraggle Rock.
The show had muppets doing comedy skits
and musical numbers as Kermit the Frog as
he hosted each show and was also a
stressed out manager of the cabaret style
house of the show and has to contend with
wanna-be comedian bears, the smothering
advances of Miss Piggy, crabby regular
theatre patrons, homicidal chefs not to
mention making the weekly guest star feel
welcome as there was a guest (Mainly
singers) each week.
The memorable skits
included Pigs in Space, Swedish Chef,
Muppets News Flash, At the Dance and
Veterinarian's Hosptial.
There was lots of tongue in cheek in each
skit as Miss Piggy was famous for her
short temper in each of them and did her
karate chop on someone whenever she got
violent and she would do anything to get
on the show as she hopes to be a
beautiful star, there was Animal the wild
drummer on the show that acted reckless
all the time and sometimes acted out of
control and there was also Fozzy Bear who
would tell awful jokes.
This show remained a family classic and
still airs in re-runs from time to time
plus there were many movies that took off
cause of this show like The
Muppett Movie, The Great
Muppett Caper and The
Muppett's Take Manhattan as well
as some revival TV shows The Jim
Henson Hour and Muppetts
Tonight!
Although Jim Henson passed on his son is
now in charge of new shows. |
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Like WTYO
and YCDTOTV this show was done in Ontario
and some of it was shot in Alberta
starting in 1976 as it was a comedy
parody about TV and was based on the
famous Second City acting/comedy troupe
touting Fred Willard and others. Plus the
series was not in front of an audience
and had canned laughter.
There were daffy skits like Count Floyd's
Late Night Movie, the Great White North
that starred Dave Thomas and Richard
Harris as the infamous Bob and Doug
McKenzie ..not to mention the rip on Give
Em Hell Harry and James Whitmore. It
starred mainly Canadian actors like in
WTYO and YCDTOTV by the likes of John
Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Dave
Thomas and Catherine O Hara as they even
wrote the skits too. They did have some
actors in the US to become regulars as
well (Hey if Ruth Buzzi can be in WTYO
why can't other US celebrities become a
regular in Canadian television?)
including Andrea Martin and Harold Ramis.
The series ran for a half an hour on
CBC-TV and CanWest Global Television
Network until 1981 and then it prompted
the makers to make a Canadian Saturday
Night Live type of a show when NBC picked
up the series after it's seasons end so
they made it run for an hour and a half
long as well as having musical guests on
the series along with the comedy skits by
performing two of their best hit songs
and the show was retitled to SCTV
Network 90 which ran for only
two seasons and then in 1983 NBC
cancelled the series and was picked up by
another USA station called Cinemax but
this time the show was cut back to a half
hour long with no musical guests and only
four members of the series remained in
this show using some of their original
skits from the series and some new one's
The series was retitled again to just
plain SCTV Channel but
it only ran for one season as viewers
were losing interest in the show and
never had a chance to revive the series
again but they had a long run while it
lasted an d remains a cult classic. |
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"The
Kids in the Hall" are a Canadian
sketch comedy troupe, set apart by their
cross-dressing antics and seemingly
infinite supply of unique characters.
Although writer Paul Bellini, various
extras, and sometimes even an actual
woman appear in the sketches, for the
most part, the five main cast members
portray every single character
themselves.
Recurring characters range from the
harried corporate executive Danny Husk to
Queen Elizabeth, from alienated teen
rocker Bobby Tarrance to gay bar owner
Buddy Cole, from occult TV show host
Simon and his sidekick Hecubus to the
gossiping corporate secretaries Cathy and
Kathy, and an endless parade of others.
The series was produced for CBC
Television in 1988 and ran till 1994 and
can still be seen in reruns on Comedy
Central.
Also a motion picture was made on the
series due to it's huge cult appeal in
1996 titled Brain Candy and
in 2002 reunited again to do another
direct-to-DVD release titled Tour
of Duty.
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This is a
show for viewers who outgrew WTYO and
YCDTOTV and moved on to this one as it
was most watched for kids 11 to 18 years
of age but with adults playing the roles.
It was created by Keenan Ivory Wayans and
stars several family
members and features short, humorous
skits, rap music, and dancing.
It starred mostly black actors on the
show but some white one's too. The series
made fun of the black and white race on
certain skits so it wouldn't be pointed
as a racist show.
It aired on FOX in April of 1990 on
Sunday nights which was a new era for
sketch comedy.
There were many recurring roles like
Homey the Clown, the Fire Marshall, the
female bodybuilder, Men On TV, Frenchie,
The Brothers Brothers, Oprah spoofs,
Arsenio Hall spoofs, Handiman and Keenan
as Bill Cosby .
The show was one time sued by the black
heavy metal artists Living Color as both
logos were similar and the company had to
change theirs.
The show even inspired the movies Mo
Money and Blankman and
it also made Jim Carrey a household name.
During season two a musical guest mainly
by a rap or dance artist performed a hit
of theirs during the closing credits in
some of the episodes too. |
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Mad-TV was
another late night show that started at
11 pm every Saturday starting in the fall
of 1995 on FOX-TV and was based on the
popular magazines.
The show occasionally had musical guests
later on in the season of the show like
WTYO did.
The skits include impersonations,
commercial spoofs, mock movie trailers
and even animated shorts of Spy Vs. Spy
segments before a commercial break.
Plus it had some regulars questioning
celebrities before an event like the
Academy Awards.
The show almost competed against Saturday
Night Live but it was towards a younger
audience. Plus like most other sketch
comedy shows there are many recurring
roles in this one like the aireheaded
Mrs. Swan, Stuart, Will Sasso
impersonating a drunken Kenny Rogers,
Phil LaMarr impersonating Michael
Jackson, Dot, Lorraine, Trina, Marvin
Tikvah, Rusty and it helped Canadian
actor Sasso be known in the U.S.
The show is still running today. |
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