50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of Alltime

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveed ... etches/01/

its a list
its comedy
it has Monty Python and SNL
its a potential huge timewaster
its bound to be subject to debate
its off topic (isn't almost everything these day)
it was edited to remove the nudity
perfect for post 9000

[eyégor]

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveed ... etches/01/

its a list
its comedy
it has Monty Python and SNL
its a potential huge timewaster
its bound to be subject to debate
its off topic (isn't almost everything these day)
it was edited to remove the nudity
perfect for post 9000

It's blocked at work

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveed ... etches/01/

its a list
its comedy
it has Monty Python and SNL
its a potential huge timewaster
its bound to be subject to debate
its off topic (isn't almost everything these day)
it was edited to remove the nudity
perfect for post 9000

It's blocked at work

You can spend you time trying to guess No.1

[TheCalvinator24]

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveed ... etches/01/

its a list
its comedy
it has Monty Python and SNL
its a potential huge timewaster
its bound to be subject to debate
its off topic (isn't almost everything these day)
it was edited to remove the nudity
perfect for post 9000

It's blocked at work

You can spend you time trying to guess No.1

Gotta be "Who's on First?"

I'll check back after I get back from lunch.

[TheCalvinator24]

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveed ... etches/01/

its a list
its comedy
it has Monty Python and SNL
its a potential huge timewaster
its bound to be subject to debate
its off topic (isn't almost everything these day)
it was edited to remove the nudity
perfect for post 9000

Gee, thanks.

Now, I've hit the web filter category of "Sex."

[BackInTex]

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveed ... etches/01/

its a list
its comedy
it has Monty Python and SNL
its a potential huge timewaster
its bound to be subject to debate
its off topic (isn't almost everything these day)
it was edited to remove the nudity
perfect for post 9000

Gee, thanks.

Now, I've hit the web filter category of "Sex."

But TMITSSS says the nudity was removed.

[KilljoyWasHere]

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveed ... etches/01/

its a list
its comedy
it has Monty Python and SNL
its a potential huge timewaster
its bound to be subject to debate
its off topic (isn't almost everything these day)
it was edited to remove the nudity
perfect for post 9000

Gee, thanks.

Now, I've hit the web filter category of "Sex."

But TMITSSS says the nudity was removed.

It should have never been there to start with! The man in the suit has been a very naughty boy!

Where's my ruler at....?

[Rexer25]

It's blocked at work

You can spend you time trying to guess No.1

Gotta be "Who's on First?"

I'll check back after I get back from lunch.

Spoiler

You are so close...

[megaaddict]

Can't really argue with the top 3.

And there are hundreds if not thousands of great comedy sketches not mentioned, but two that come to my mind immediately are:

Spoiler

White Like Eddie (SNL)

and given its contribution to the internet at least an honorable mention should go to...

Spam (MPFC)

[littlebeast13]

I can't get it to load....

Of course, I doubt they put anything from me and mini on the list anyway.....

lb13

[peacock2121]

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveed ... etches/01/

its a list
its comedy
it has Monty Python and SNL
its a potential huge timewaster
its bound to be subject to debate
its off topic (isn't almost everything these day)
it was edited to remove the nudity
perfect for post 9000

Gee, thanks.

Now, I've hit the web filter category of "Sex."

But TMITSSS says the nudity was removed.

He always says that.

It's his way of flirting.

[peacock2121]

I can't get it to load....

Of course, I doubt they put anything from me and mini on the list anyway.....

lb13

This made me laugh - right out loud.

[andrewjackson]

The one that comes to mind for me that they missed was the Harvey Korman-Tim Conway dentist sketch from the Carol Burnett Show. I stopped breathing for several minutes with that one.

[silvercamaro]

It's a good list, with many of my favorites and a couple of British sketches that I can't wait to watch. One Monty Python that made me laugh to the point of tears is missing, however. That's the one about the Killer Joke developed by German scientists to ensure world domination. Perhaps it was too difficult to pick out just a couple of minutes from a longer "documentary" to call it a sketch and be done with it.

A missing SNL I loved was the one with Tom Hanks as an awful Olympic figure skater. Since they do have Synchronized Swimming, I will forgive.

[gsabc]

Hard to disagree much with the top ten, or much of the list in general. Might have substituted certain other sketches from the players involved instead of the ones they picked (the "Spam" omission mentioned by someone else comes to mind), but a good list overall.

Glad they got Kovacs in there. Most of his stuff wasn't outright funny, but you can see echoes of his work in a lot of sketch comedy since he left us all too early. He was a master. A Dutch Master, of course.

[TheCalvinator24]

It's a good list, with many of my favorites and a couple of British sketches that I can't wait to watch. One Monty Python that made me laugh to the point of tears is missing, however. That's the one about the Killer Joke developed by German scientists to ensure world domination. Perhaps it was too difficult to pick out just a couple of minutes from a longer "documentary" to call it a sketch and be done with it.

A missing SNL I loved was the one with Tom Hanks as an awful Olympic figure skater. Since they do have Synchronized Swimming, I will forgive.

The awful Olympic Figure Skater sketch that I remember was with Jason Priestly.

[silvercamaro]

It's a good list, with many of my favorites and a couple of British sketches that I can't wait to watch. One Monty Python that made me laugh to the point of tears is missing, however. That's the one about the Killer Joke developed by German scientists to ensure world domination. Perhaps it was too difficult to pick out just a couple of minutes from a longer "documentary" to call it a sketch and be done with it.

A missing SNL I loved was the one with Tom Hanks as an awful Olympic figure skater. Since they do have Synchronized Swimming, I will forgive.

The awful Olympic Figure Skater sketch that I remember was with Jason Priestly.

You probably are right -- but I do seem to remember Tom Hanks on skates.

[TheCalvinator24]

It's a good list, with many of my favorites and a couple of British sketches that I can't wait to watch. One Monty Python that made me laugh to the point of tears is missing, however. That's the one about the Killer Joke developed by German scientists to ensure world domination. Perhaps it was too difficult to pick out just a couple of minutes from a longer "documentary" to call it a sketch and be done with it.

A missing SNL I loved was the one with Tom Hanks as an awful Olympic figure skater. Since they do have Synchronized Swimming, I will forgive.

The awful Olympic Figure Skater sketch that I remember was with Jason Priestly.

You probably are right -- but I do seem to remember Tom Hanks on skates.

I cannot state that they never did a skating sketch with Hanks.

The one with Priestly has a Scott Hamilton impersonator saying "He should just quit now."

[silvercamaro]

I cannot state that they never did a skating sketch with Hanks.

The one with Priestly has a Scott Hamilton impersonator saying "He should just quit now."

I Googled. Tom Hanks did play a figure skater who wore a cowboy outfit. Apparently, the two sketches -- probably years apart -- have blended together in my brain.

[jaybee]

WHAT! No Andy Kaufman morphing into Elvis?????

I am shocked. Shocked, stunned and disappointed.

[ne1410s]

Any list of comedy sketches without "Mama's Family" (the original) with Tim Conway describing the Siamese elephants is laughable...

[mellytu74]

Some of my all-time favorites are here, although I would have put Jim Carrey's Ice, Ice Baby up higher.

I always thought of the SNL ice skating sketches as a trilogy -- Jason Priestley, Tom Hanks and Nancy Kerrigan.

Chris Farley was Kerrigan's partner. She had some blonde braid wig and he had grown out of his costume overnight. His physical comedy was wonderful.

[TheCalvinator24]

Any list of comedy sketches without "Mama's Family" (the original) with Tim Conway describing the Siamese elephants is laughable...

I thought that, too. Far funnier than the curtain rod, IMNSHO.

[gsabc]

Any list of comedy sketches without "Mama's Family" (the original) with Tim Conway describing the Siamese elephants is laughable...

I thought that, too. Far funnier than the curtain rod, IMNSHO.

Yes, but only because of Conway's solo performance in it and Vicki Lawrence's final comment. It's also an outtake, so it may not have officially qualified.

I still want a copy of the full episode, though, with commentary by the principals if possible. Is it available on DVD anywhere? HNORK!

Found it on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY