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"One Leg Too Few" is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a classic example of comedy arising from an absurd situation which the participants take entirely seriously (comic irony), and a demonstration of the construction of a sketch in order to draw a laugh from the audience with almost every line.
"Rinse the Blood Off My Toga" is a comedy sketch by the Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster. First broadcast on The Wayne and Shuster Hour on CBC Radio in 1954, it was reenacted for their British television debut in 1957 and their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958.
"Diner Lobster" is a comedy skit that aired on Saturday Night Live (SNL) on April 14, 2018. Originally written by John Mulaney and Colin Jost for a 2010 episode, the sketch features a man who, after ordering a lobster from a dingy New York Greek diner, is warned by the denizens of the diner to change his order through parodies of the songs from Les Misérables.
Corbett's memorial service at Westminster Abbey also had four candles at the altar as a reference to the famous sketch. [10] In Barker's home town of Oxford, a Wetherspoons pub on George Street is named The Four Candles after the sketch. The original handwritten script was sold at auction for £48,500 in December 2007. [1]
He was a member of the cast of the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, and later appeared in Feldman's television comedy series Marty. He acted in many other television sitcoms, and appeared in the 1970s BBC radio sketch show Hello, Cheeky! with John Junkin and Barry Cryer , later ...
CHICAGO — This isn’t meant to be answered with certainty, but for a moment, ask yourself: What is the single best comedy sketch of all time? From any source — Abbot & Costello, Monty Python ...
Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon and Alec Baldwin during the 'The Delicious Dish' skit on Dec. 12, 1998. 'Tis the season for laughter and cheer, and Saturday Night Live is ready to deliver plenty of ...
The January 1952 episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour included the sketch, once again with Abbott and Costello, but with Errol Flynn playing the delusional man. [5] The Three Stooges performed the sketch in Gents Without Cents, a 1944 short, as part of a show they put on within the movie. In their version, Moe is the storyteller and Curly the ...