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What is the best skit group?(self)
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The ones I know are mostly the obvious ones. WKUK, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall. Wizards with Guns is maybe the one I know about that maybe a few people don't know about. And I guess more specifically, which one do you consider to be the best?

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[-]Zapped3(+3|0)

Several people from The State went on to bigger things. And by extension, the Reno 911 cast. Upright Citizens Brigade is another one that produced a good cast.

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

I did think of Upright Citizens Brigade. I started adding some to MatrixHub but then realized I don't know them well enough to know more than about two skits. Basically I know the pennies skit.

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

In 2004 I went to their live improv comedy in NYC.
Justin Winokur made me take his photo with Amy Poehler.
I was shy and declined - and didn't know her, before she was famous, or maybe I'd seen her on SNL once or twice.

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[-]RickSanchez3(+3|0)

Monty Python, do you, in fact, have any cheese at all?

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[-]pumpkin3(+3|0)

The Whitest Kids You Know?

Second City?

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

The Ministry Of Unknown Science

http://www.tmous.com/

Eric Trueheart, Tokyo Rico, Shady and the other one, plus guest girls in the show, out of L.A. Eric and I and two girls shared an RV at Burning Man in 1999 - I drove it from Vegas there and back. We were all Gigsvillains. Eric wrote for Invader Zim, Thumb Wars, Thumbtanic, and lots of other neat things. Rico was an early podcaster/journo. Tim Walker, akak Captain Shady is gay and jewish. Those 4 (or more?) had a big warehouse "Theory Labs" in L.A. where they produced crazy skits, burlesque shows, fire stuff, etc. (I was always envious of their talent and US citizenship.) (We, 3 sometimes a 4th, had a big warehouse "Dutch Boy 28" in Oakland, made videos, converted veggie oil in to biodiesel, 4x welders, hosted wild parties, and made Burning Man things.) Man it's been a while.

The MOUS shows were always extremely inventive, original, hysterical, with their established characters and running themes and gags and inside jokes that carried over - plus they created other fun content that may or may not tie back to TMOUS.

https://DuckDuckGo.com/?q=The+Ministry+Of+Unknown+Science

TMOUS' Tokyo Rico is not to be confused with Burning Man's Captain Rico or the musician Tokyo Rico. All I could find outside of TMOUS: https://www.pigdog.org/auto/burningman/link/783.html I'm curious to see what Rico's been up to, but can't recall his last name. I'd know it if I saw it.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

In 1991 or 1992 I was a camera man for our local Windsor city cable station, Trillium 11, IIRC.
I wrote up a bunch of skits to perform with friends based on our Halloween costumes and more we could do.
Never did submit anything. Could have been another Tom Greene.

There were other Canadian TV shows too, but none stand out.

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[-]VantaFount2(+2|0)

I'm sorta tickled by the fact that literally nobody mentions Saturday Night Live in this context anymore.

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

True. We could treat it like Indiana Jones where there are exactly three Indian Jones movies. I wonder where the cutoff would be for SNL. My personal favorite is Norm McDonald.

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

SNL's Balkan Dirt Diving - very much not like anything SNL does, is by far and away my favourite.

Can't find it on YouTube, but I just realized maybe the season can be torrented.

January 18, 1986: Harry Dean Stanton / The Replacements (S11E07)

https://1337x.to/torrent/3602458/Saturday-Night-Live-SNL-Complete-Seasons-11-15-1985-1990/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=SNL's+Balkan+Dirt+Diving

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