The Newz

Nearing 15 years later and I CAN remember many of the skits and shorts. The movie shorts by Shawn Alex Thompson were brilliant, My Beautiful Cigarette(might be My Lovely Cigarette) and Patterns were my favorites! Sketches like the Sesame Street parodies, Oopsy Digit, The Association for Apathy, Hooked on Phonics, not to mention Tommy Blaze's rants, were sooo good. Wish I could find the complete series to purchase!! It was on at one o'clock in the morning on what was then The WB-channel 11. I didn't and don't understand why that time slot. I think that is why this show didn't make it, because The Newz was as good as Kids in the Hall and much better than Saturday Night Live.

I personally looked forward to each episode of this show, and enjoyed both the cast and the writing. The Newz kept getting bumped out by coverage of the OJ Simpson trial, which lasted for so long that "The Newz" never was able to recover. What would it cost the owners to publish this and try to collect a few bucks from nostalgic fans like myself? Liked Mystro and the rest of the cast. This show was better than the SNL episodes that aired during the same time period. I am wondering why I have to fill up ten lines when clearly no one else's post was close to ten lines long. This particular topic begs to be alone. Court is adjourned!

Taking a cue from Saturday Night Live, "The Newz" tried to break out as the only big sketch comedy show in syndication. Unfortunately, it totally lacks the innovation of the much more successful "Kids in the Hall". The fact that is was really low tech didn't help either. In the end, the facts that it tried too hard to be like SNL and that it just wasn't funny put this sketch-based show on the shelf beside "Chevy Chase". Good to see regular Whose Liner Brad Sherwood has moved on to better things.

... at least for us in Greece. As I see from the previous reviewer, the same gags and sketches were done on Saturday Night Live and Kids In The Hall. Guess what, here we haven't seen a single episode of these. So it was an extremely fresh and original comic series! I also thought the actors were very talented!

I've seen the other shows like this, SNL, MadTV, etc, but this was the best while it lasted. I check YouTube weekly to see if anyone has upload an new clips from it. My favorite feature was Tommy Blaze doing the news, and my favorite skit was the Sesame Street muppet political skit. I think Bert had received the nomination and Ernie was begging him for a job in his administration, but Bert had since distanced himself from the cookie and milk addict and was trying to brush him off. It was truly hilarious.

I don't know why the producers don't put the shows on a DVD. I'd pay 20 bucks for it, and I'm cheap.