41 Random Sketch Comedy Tidbits That Have Some Solid Characters But Are Really Struggling to Find A Button

Like any good sketch, we won’t let this list get too long
41 Random Sketch Comedy Tidbits That Have Some Solid Characters But Are Really Struggling to Find A Button

A great sketch needs to know when it’s time to wrap things up. It doesn’t want to be too formulaic with that whole “Rule of Three” thing, but trying to cram everything in can sometimes make it drag on a little too long. Like, how many different ways can you tell the same joke? 

We tried to take our own advice with this list. Sure, 40 is a nice round number of facts, but there was this one extra fact that we just couldn’t cut. So let us know: Does it drag, or does it go out on a high note?

Key & Peele’s Substitute Teacher

BEHIND-THE-SCENESE FACTS Ya done messed up, A-A-Ron. SUBSTITUTE TEACHER VELETAL ENDOSKEL LOPIAN - SONE CN vet CULAR TERUS CONTRACTILE BLADOW ATTACHED 27 ASOME INTE ARY MATERIAL BODY CONERY SCALES an TIVE TUBE EXTEL ULS/LUNGS KEY & PEELE CRACKED.COM SPINAL All it took was teacher mangles Caucasian names to light up the writers' room. It was like sharks in a frenzy after chum had been dumped in the water, says Key. He improvised in-your-face bits with students, who had to suck my lips into my face to keep from laughing.

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Dave & Key & Peele

COMEDY DEL NERD Dave Chappelle says that Key & Peele hurt his feelings with their show. Peabody Award Peabody Aw Peab Peabod Awa He says that they took a format he'd come up with, and claimed that it was Created by Key & Peele- Put some respect on my name, he said. CRACKED.COM

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Catherine O’Hara

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CATHERINE O'HARA WAS AN SNL CAST MEMBER (BUT ONLY TECHNICALLY). She never appeared in an episode - she joined SNL after she was done shooting SCTV, a show that was supposed to end with that season. But it got renewed, so she quit SNL and went back to SCTV.

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Dave Chappelle’s Departure

Dave Chappelle walked away from $50 million. Stressed out from the pressures of his hit show, he abruptly quit and went on a spiritual retreat to Afri

Elvis

Elvis Presley loved acting out Monty Python sketches. He was such a big fan, he started calling people squire after seeing Monty Python's nudge nud

South Park’s Inspiration

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE ART STYLE WAS INSPIRED BY TERRY GILLIAM. SOUTH PARK The art style of the earlier seasons was inspired by Gilliam's Monty Python animation. Both Trey Parker and Matt Stone were huge Python fans since childhood. CRACKED.COM

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From MadTV to Office Space

David Herman got fired from MADtv to appear in the movie. CRACKED.COM Не wasn't technically allowed to take the role while he was still a cast member, but he felt it was the right move for his career. So he loudly yelled all his lines at MADtv table reads until they fired him.

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Monty Python’s Three-Sided Album

Monty Python's Three-Sided Record MONTY ONTY THE PYTHON ALD CICE & TIE 0o MATCHINC This is the holy grail of multisided vinyl records: two distinct tr
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Spam

Spam got its name from a Monty Python sketch. Sure, it ultimately comes from canned pork. But mass unsolicited email got named spam after the Monty Python joke where the items on a cafeteria menu just keep getting replaced by spam, and eventually the full dialogue becomes just spam spam

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Family Guy

Family Guy was supposed to be a series of shorts on MADtv CRACKED.COM Similar to how The Simpsons began on The Tracy Ullman Show, Family Guy was originally pitched to Fox as a series of animated shorts for MADtv. Ultimately, MAD didn't have the budget for the animation, so the network decided to give Seth MacFarlane his own time slot. Fitting that the wild little brother of SNL almost launched the wild little brother of The Simpsons.

Source: IGN

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