" Subsequently, after losing out on the role of the title character's mentor in The Beastmaster, Mr. T appeared in another boxing film, Penitentiary 2, and on an episode of the Canadian sketch comedy series Bizarre, where he fights and eats Super Dave Osborne, before accepting a television series role on The A-Team.

The sketch appeared in the first episode of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus (" Whither Canada "), first shown on October 5, 1969.

In a parody sketch titled " The Restaurant Enterprise ", on an episode of Saturday Night Live, Kirk ( guest host William Shatner ) directs McCoy ( Phil Hartman ) to help a man who's choking.

" On an episode of In Living Color, one parody sketch lampoons the advanced age of the principal Star Trek actors.

This was the first time that a major television network successfully scheduled Super Bowl counterprogramming: Fox aired a special live football-themed episode of its popular sketch comedy show In Living Color during the halftime show.

In addition to replacing the first season opening and the ending logos with Zoot, the Vincent Price episode was edited to remove the song s " I'm Looking Through You " and " You've Got a Friend " ( the latter of which would be removed again when released on the first season DVD ) as well as a sketch with the talking houses, while the Alice Cooper episode removed Robin's performance of " Somewhere Over the Rainbow ".

* In episode 13 of the third season of Saturday Night Live, a sketch entitled " Miracle in Chicago " portrays Mayor Daley ( played by John Belushi ) appearing as a ghost to a pub owner and a customer ( played respectively by Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray ).

: The first sketch to appear on television, in the pilot episode, Bruce McCulloch drinks some water and looks out the window to see three millionaires ( Foley, McDonald, and Thompson ) rummaging through his garbage cans out his window.

The episode titles are unofficial and mostly come from the last sketch in each program, which was usually the longest sketch.

It primarily featured pre-teen and teenaged actors in a sketch comedy format in which they acted out skits based on a theme for that episode.

Each episode had an " opposites " segment, introduced by a visual effect of the screen flipping upside down, shifting left to fade to the next sketch, and then righting itself.

Absolutely Fabulous grew from a French & Saunders sketch called " Modern Mother and Daughter " ( from series 3 episode 6 ), which starred Jennifer Saunders as the mother ( named ' Adrianna ') and Dawn French as the daughter, already named Saffron.

In 1975, Williams later starred with Leslie Phillips, Lance Percival, Miriam Margolyes and others, in the short-lived radio sketch show Oh, Get On with It ( based on a pilot episode entitled Get On With It ), which also featured appearances by Rambling Syd.

According to the episode " Principal Charming ", his name was Ralph Melish, which is a reference to the Monty Python sketch " The Adventures of Ralph Melish: Hot Dog and Knickers " from The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.

Weaver has hosted two episodes of the long-running NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live: once on the 12th season premiere in 1986, and again, on a season 35 episode in January 2010.

* Sign Sing-Along: Often shown at the last sketch on a Friday episode, these films featured footage of signs with various words and were married to a sing-along-type song.

* A Very Short Book: Sometimes the last sketch of an episode, it featured a well-known nursery rhyme or famous story read by a cast member who turned the pages of a book with moving pictures.

Starting with Season Three, a show's number would be presented in the sketch-of-the-day teaser segment, a parody of soap-opera teasers, which would highlight a particular sketch that would be shown during that episode.

For example, 60A originally contained the Spider-Man episode " Spidey Meets the Prankster " and used a scene from that sketch as the opening teaser, which was removed completely after the opening credits, leaving only the episode number, and at the start is an episode of " The Six-Dollar and Thirty-Nine Cent Man ," which supposedly aired only during Season 6.

Also removed following the Letterman sketch in this episode was the clip of the Short Circus singing " Stop!

Perhaps the first time that Wensleydale cheese was thrust into the limelight was as one of the cheeses mentioned by John Cleese in the Monty Python sketch " The Cheese Shop ", which originally appeared in a 1972 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

The Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster parodied Julius Caesar in their 1958 sketch Rinse the Blood off My Toga.

* A deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall, who is initially assumed to be a harmless mistyping of " dog ".

In that same year he also made a cameo appearance ( as himself ) on the third season finale of the popular Canadian sketch program The Kids in the Hall.

He is an effeminate, gay socialite, made famous on The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian sketch comedy series and troupe of the same name.

Although the series was quickly cancelled due to CBC budget constraints, it was an important influence on later Canadian sketch comedy, such as The Kids in the Hall.

Category: Canadian sketch comedy shows

Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials.

Category: Canadian sketch comedy shows

Second City Television ( SCTV ) a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.

The series was cited as an inspiration for the later Canadian series Death Comes to Town, a reunion project for the Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.

The show was a weekly topical sketch comedy series focusing on political and cultural satire and was one of the most popular Canadian television shows.

At the end of a sketch, they would " poll " the public ( another cast member playing an anonymous Canadian ) and give its results, the gag being that only one person was polled in the survey ( and thus one leader would get 100 % of the votes, but on one occasion the person abstained ).

Although originally a sketch in the early parts of Air Farce on TV meant to satirize the Canadian military ( in it, the Canadian military consists of only two people, Colonel " Teresa " Stacy and his assistant, played by Ferguson and Morgan ), but as the popularity of the sketch grew, it became an integral part of Air Farce, spawning its own newsroom sketch titled " Chicken Cannon News ".

* The Canadian Tire Couple ( Ted Simonett and Gloria Slade )-They appeared in a sketch made to look like one of their regular ads, where they promoted the " Baby Power Washer ".

Category: Canadian sketch comedy shows

* Second City Television, a Canadian sketch comedy television program

Guest made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show.

He did paint the old character mustache over his real one on a few rare performing occasions, including a TV sketch with Jackie Gleason on the latter's variety show in the 1960s ( in which they performed a variation on the song " Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean ) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo.

The surviving kinescope of the live Benny telecast features Bogart in his only TV sketch comedy outing.

The Monty Python Live at Drury Lane album features a live version of the sketch, which is slightly different from the TV version.

) Although the fictitious faculty first appeared in the Bruces sketch in the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, the song itself was not included, making its debut on the album Matching Tie and Handkerchief as a coda for the sketch.

* The Underground ( TV series ), a sketch comedy show

This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody ( with Bob Goody ) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.

* Poutremos Poutra-Poutremos, anchor of the foreign TV station Chanel 9 sketch

Milligan's next major TV venture was the sketch comedy series The World of Beachcomber ( 1968 ), made in colour for BBC 2 ; however, it is believed all 19 episodes are now lost.

Early on, Jones was interested in devising a fresh format for the Python TV shows, and it was largely he who developed the stream-of-consciousness style which abandoned punchlines and encouraged the fluid movement of one sketch into another, allowing the troupe's conceptual humour the space to “ breathe ”.

On a TV special in the early 1950s, the two did a sketch where they interacted with the latest original Universal Studios monster being promoted at the time, the Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ).

Nevertheless, the sketch is considered the show's most famous one and was voted as the show's best in a TV special, while also placing fifth on Channel 4's 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches.

The television shows 30 Rock, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Sonny with a Chance & Kappa Mikey feature a sketch show within the TV show.

This sketch was a parody of The Fugitive, and eventually included a title sequence that parodied the original Quinn Martin TV series theme.

) A German translation of the angry letter featured at the conclusion of the BBC TV version ends the sketch.

* A 1993 episode of the British TV comedy Hale and Pace featured a seven-minute sketch parodying Angels with Dirty Faces.

For this and all subsequent TV appearances, the troupe abandoned the idea of performing TV sketches as " radio sketches ", and presented their TV work in a traditional TV sketch show format.