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The Sketch Show

  • TV Series
  • 2001–2003
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
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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
    755
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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!
    Ristevski

    Fantastic!

    First of all I think it was a shame that only two series of this show were made. The sketches were fresh and original and not boring and predictable like most comedy shows are. Maybe the people that don't like it should watch more than 10 minutes of it before posting their reviews as Im afraid to say not every sketch can be hilarious.

    I loved it! 10/10.
    cool_guy200085

    I don't like watching it...

    but thats not coz i think its not good, it's coz i think it's too good! I have nearly died laughing at every episode! Whenever my mum and dad come upstairs while i'm watchin it in my bedroom, they think i'm a bit mad coz they can always hear me going crazy laughing at it! I once made the mistake of eating a packet of crisps while watchin it! I was laughing so much i nearly choked on them! Some sketches aren't as funny as others but they are all very funny and very clever! When the show starts the first five minutes might not be as funny, they seem to save the best sketches til the end in most episodes! But give it a chance! Don't just switch off after five minutes! You don't know what British comedy is all about until you've seen this! The new series is due to start on ITV1 very soon(should be sometime in february i think!) so my advice to you is watch it! If you don't like this, you don't like comedy!
    Laitue_Gonflable

    Strangely Hilarious

    I don't know what it is about the Sketch Show that appeals to me. IT has all the elements that I usually hate and will usually turn me off a show forever; a lot of the sketches are either really bad puns or are highly predictable, and the cast, all made from British stand-up comedians of varying fame, are all incredibly smug and very sure of themselves without really being brilliant at acting. But having said all this, it works, and really well.

    The show is hilarious at best and grimace-forming at worst but it still always makes you smile. Perhaps it's because it doesn't always try to be funny, and when it isn't being funny, it knows it, and so do the cast. I first saw Jim Tavare doing a piece at the Montreal comedy festival some 15 years ago with his double bass, and the humour is very much the same. I love it.

    Lee Mack is especially good, he has some very good routines that he accomplishes with a smarmy and very unlikeable air but the fact is he is more often than not playing very smarmy and unlikeable characters and in the process is poking fun at them.

    And with all those comments also said, occasionally they will come up with an absolute pearler of a sketch that stands out in the history of sketch comedy. The one in the men's toilets, for example, or the sign language sketch- neither of them particularly clever or witty but both just make you fall about laughing. I thoroughly recommend this, particularly to my fellow countrymen who are bored as I am with the tired and hopelessly predictable comedy of Skithouse and Comedy Inc. 4 stars out of 5.
    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.

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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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      • 30m
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      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo

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