The Newz

... 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!

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.

The only thing I remember about this show is that they spelled the name wrong and it aired in the dead of night and basically passed by people because of this. Seriously, this thing was beaten by informcials and wasn't really that funny. The only thing this show really has to offer is a very esoteric time capsule about how sometimes low-budgeted shows were made and lasted for a long time in syndication and this came at the very end of that era. Maybe it had a funny sketch but a decade later I can't remember a funny thing about it.

Another the name is quite a misnomer. It had nothing to do with satire of the news but rather was a loose name to bind together a bunch of loose and very forgettable skits. SheTV was a lot more interesting and it only lasted six episodes.

I don't know where the uppity reviewers come from but this show had some of the best comedy sketches ever. My personal favorite is the other Sesame Street characters trying to get Bert a date and introducing him to Oscarina at the bar. If someone pays attention to any comedy show, they will find more than half of the sketches are not funny, even the great Monty Python. The NEWZ was at least that funny and almost that irreverent. It was a pleasure to see Brad Sherwood again on TV. It reminder me of how much I liked the NEWZ. Like all the videos on the web about the show. Wish the Sesame Street parodies were on line. Agree that it would be nice to buy a best of DVD. Or even a set.

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!