It's a busy week for female-centered comedy news between the announcement of Whitney Cummings' new show Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings, Bridesmaids' probably-never-gonna-happen sequel, and the renewal of HBO's Girls and Veep, but during the last two months, a new female-led sketch comedy show on VH1 slipped past the radar undetected. Thanks to a lack of promotion and news coverage, Stevie TV has stealthily crept past mainstream criticism since its debut in March and has already been picked up for a second season. Don't let its fellow VH1 shows (gems like Mob Wives, Celebrity Rehab, and Flavor of Love starring Flavor Flav) fool you [...]
There was a lot of sketch comedy on TV in the '90s. Emerging cable networks, particularly Comedy Central, had lots of airtime to fill, as did other networks, particularly if they were youth-oriented, like MTV, Fox, or The WB. And what did the kids in the '90s like? Inventive comedy. Scenes were thriving in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Toronto, and Austin, among other places, where TV talent was rapidly being developed. In the late '80s, non-Saturday Night Live shows, such as the Canadian import The Kids in the Hall, which aired late nights on CBS, showed that there was a big market and interest in the U.S. for [...]
Guys, dogs can't type or read, right? GIVE IT UP SNOOPY JESUS. You can type, however, so here's a heads-up that September is officially National Sketch Writing Month. Also, I was joking about that Snoopy stuff; what do I do about what dogs can or can't do? As the NaSkWriMo site explains, "30 days. 30 sketches. No excuses. No apologies." Sign up to join the community of the driven, or to have something to do this Monday when everyone else is apparently off having real adult vacations. You never know; maybe that sketch about how everyone poops out their eyes* is really the nugget of gold you think [...]
