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The Sketch Show

  • TV Series
  • 2001–2003
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
746
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The Sketch Show (2001)
Sketch ComedyComedy

Sketch comedy series featuring a range of different humor styles.Sketch comedy series featuring a range of different humor styles.Sketch comedy series featuring a range of different humor styles.

  • Stars
    • Lee Mack
    • Tim Vine
    • Jim Tavaré
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.2/10
    746
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    • Stars
      • Lee Mack
      • Tim Vine
      • Jim Tavaré
    • 12User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Lee Mack
    Lee Mack
    • Various Characters…
    • 2001–2004
    Tim Vine
    Tim Vine
    • Various Characters
    • 2001–2004
    Jim Tavaré
    Jim Tavaré
    • Various Characters
    • 2001–2004
    Karen Taylor
    Karen Taylor
    • Various Characters…
    • 2001–2004
    Kitty Flanagan
    Kitty Flanagan
    • Various Roles
    • 2003–2004
    Ronni Ancona
    Ronni Ancona
    • Various Characters…
    • 2001
    Jamie Dispirito
    • Various 2004
    • 2004
    Emily Deamer
    Emily Deamer
    • 2001
    Kevin Hudson
    Kevin Hudson
    • Passerby
    • 2003
    Robert Dearle
    • Friend of Friend
    • 2004
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    up_north_girl

    Hilarious! Great British humor!

    "The sketch show" is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen!

    The sketches are funny and entertaining.

    I don't know how they come up with it all! The actors are amazing at acting different characters.

    The humor is one-of-a-kind, but oh...so funny! "The sketch show" always makes me laugh.

    Personally, I just love British TV-series ( most of them), and the sketch show is one of my favorites. The humor maybe weird, and different, but that is just exiting, isn't it? Hilarious!

    I recommend the show to anyone who cares for a laugh!
    ScurryInertia

    british and funny!?!?!!

    It would be the only british show i ever watch, I usually find it hard to bare british dribble but this, this is british and FUNNY.

    Plus without a doubt its the best sketch show ive seen in recent times, they keep there gags so simple and hilarious rather than trying to over do it all the time. Punch lines in the show are most of the time clear and funny. Unlike all of the crappy sketch shows that are coming out of Aus these days, the sketch show is consistant in its level of laughs it produces each week.

    With shows like skithouse (god knows why the keep on pushing on with this) its always hit, miss, hit, miss. More often than not, miss. The sketch shows nowhere near as funny as 'Merrick and Rosso Unplanned' but it would come a close second or third.

    A+ for the best sketch show on TV.
    9videorama-759-859391

    Sketch me dead-the Brits have done it again.

    UK's version of Comedy Inc- The Late Shift. Of course this is better, way way better. To have a thirty minute show, of non stop short skits, that are inventively side splitting, is no easy task. But this show manages that. I watch this show, every time, I come across it, and I just crack up. I'll have top buy DVD's of the show. Here's just another reason Londoners know comedy, and do it best, although the actors are of much greater ilk in Comedy Inc. Tim Vine, the genius of one liners, who you could watch 24/7, and Lee Mack, put the excitement into the show. If you haven't seen this show, you must, especially if a fan of Brit comedy. This show delivers sketches in constant and plenteous supply with it's dedicated writers, and performers. Too close to perfect. Almost tempted to give it ten.
    otacon23dav

    A brilliant comedy

    A great british comedy full of short quick-witted sketches. One great joke after another. Sometimes it has its downs where a sketch drags on and wasn't funny. But most of the time it is hilarious.

    I recommend watching this for a good comedy rather than the boring Australian sketch shows that only has ONE or TWO ..soso jokes such as Skithouse, comedy inc and big bite. Those are the worst sketch shows that drag a sketch on and on. They don't know when to end the joke. Most the time when the "punch line" comes in they still continue on with the sketch draining it out of its joke.

    A good sketch will have the "punch line" and quickly on to the next like this series.

    I guess DEANNE must be a woman because most girls don't have a sense of humor and to compare good british comedy with full frontal and fast forward, she must be an idiot. Fast Foward was a good sketch show, Full frontal was an alright sketch show - and thats the ONLY good sketch shows that eventually came from Australia.

    But british sketch shows kills over australian sketch shows any day. Watch this series, its pretty funny and people should judge shows by ONLY watching it once. Some days its really funny, sometimes it will probably be dead. I watched skithouse, comedy inc and big bite about 3-5 times....what a waste of time and tv space that was.
    Tarbie

    You can almost hear the barrel being scraped!

    With a line-up including Ronni Ancona and Jim Tavare, plus writing credits from the likes of Ricky Gervais, and production by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, you'd think that this would be something special. BIG mistake! Without a doubt, this has to be one of the poorest comedy shows ITV has put out in the last 20 years - and as you can imagine, it's up against some pretty stiff competition!

    The punchlines to the sketches are so transparently obvious, you can see them coming as the sketch starts, but not in a fun intelligent way (see The Fast Show for a better example of obvious punchlines). Example: Man #1 is collecting money in a bucket. The bucket reads 'Pickpockets In Need'. Bet you can't guess what happens next?? That's right, Man#2 takes money from the bucket rather than putting some in. Oh, hilarity!

    I can't stress highly enough how much this should be avoided. Think Three of a Kind without the laughs and you're getting pretty close.

    ITV - must try harder!

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    • Release date
      • September 10, 2001 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Скетч-шоу
    • Filming locations
      • London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Avalon Television
      • Baby Cow Productions
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