Da Super Fan sketch has not been brought back by SNL, with the exception of a single appearance by Horatio Sanz as a Super Fan for the Cubs on Weekend Update in 2003.

* Mark Critch ( 2003 – ), as anchor ( formerly Bas MacLaren, apparently in homage to two well-known Newfoundland radio announcers, Bas Jamieson and George MacLaren ) and various correspondents and sketch characters.

* Colin Mochrie ( 2001 – 2003 ) as anchor Anthony St. George and various correspondents and sketch characters.

* Gavin Crawford ( 2003 – 2011 ) as anchor ( formerly Gavin Cooper, a possible homage to Anderson Cooper ) and various correspondents and sketch characters.

The 18 minute single take black-and-white 1963 TV recording featuring British comedians Freddie Frinton and May Warden has become an integral component of the New Year's Eve schedule of several German television stations, Danish, and Swedish national television, a December 23 staple on Norwegian national television, and a cult television classic in Finland, Estonia, Faroe Islands, the Netherlands and Austria ; on New Year's Eve 2003 alone, the sketch was broadcast 19 times ( on various channels ).

In 2003 the Danish TV producer Paul Anthony Sørensen produced and directed an international documentary about the sketch.

Basil played Dobby the house elf in the French & Saunders sketch " Harry Potter And The Secret Chamberpot Of Azerbaijan " for Comic Relief Red Nose Day 2003.

In 2003, he became widely known for his popular sketch comedy television series, Chappelle's Show, which ran until his abrupt retirement from the show in 2005.

In 2003, Chappelle debuted his own weekly sketch comedy show on Comedy Central called Chappelle's Show.

The Gavin Crawford Show was a Canadian sketch comedy series that ran from June 19, 2000 to July 1, 2003 on The Comedy Network.

Cilauro also played IT technician Griffin on the Shaun Micallef sitcom Welcher & Welcher ( 2003 ) and K2 on the 1996 Working Dog radio sketch Johnny Swank.

Outside of the League, Gatiss ' television work has included writing for the 2001 revival of Randall & Hopkirk ( Deceased ) and script editing the popular sketch show Little Britain in 2003, making guest appearances in both.

Big Bite was an Australian sketch comedy television series, which ran on the Seven Network from 8 May 2003 to 4 March 2004 in a prime time timeslot on Thursdays.

The use of news tickers has also been parodied on a number of programs, including an episode of The Simpsons from 2003 ( Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington ), as well as a sketch on Saturday Night Live.

Comedy Inc. was an Australian sketch comedy television series, which ran on the Nine Network from 1 February 2003 to 26 December 2007.

It first premiered in February 2003 in the new wave of Australian sketch comedy shows being launched across the free-to-air channels along with Big Bite and skitHOUSE.

skitHOUSE was an Australian sketch comedy television series that ran on Network Ten from 9 February, 2003 to 28 July, 2004.

She also appeared on the sketch comedy series skitHOUSE ( on Network Ten ) from 2003 until its axing in 2004, so she was concurrently starring in three TV programs.

She was one of the four founding members of Toronto-based sketch comedy troupe The Atomic Fireballs, with whom she performed before being hired by the Daily Show in 2003.

Smack the Pony is a British sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4.

In 2003, while a regular performer at Second City Las Vegas, he was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live, and would occasionally make bit appearances as audience members or extras.

In 2003 he began to act in the sketch comedy show La Parodia ( The Parody ), and since 2004 in " El Privilegio de Mandar ".

That Mitchell and Webb Sound is a comedy sketch show on BBC Radio 4 which started on 28 August 2003.

As a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Hollow Men, he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe four times between 1999 and 2002, traveled to America as a participant at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in the Colorado mountain resort of Aspen, and to Canada for a performance at Montreal's 2005 Just For Laughs festival.

" 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.