1/20/2024 0 Comments Happy person sketchSaturday Night Live, the behemoth of the sketch show genre, makes up a majority of the list, though the show transitioned out of the goofy Hader/The Lonely Island/Rudolph/Wiig era into the sharp and strange current era of the show. We’ve limited ourselves to sketch-comedy TV shows - a list of the decade’s best internet and late-night sketches would be far bigger and stranger than can be catalogued - though longform “sketch” shows like Documentary Now and At Home With Amy Sedaris make appearances below. We’ve worked to alphabetically (it’s only fair!) round up some of this decade’s best comedy sketches. What has endured from the decade’s sketch comedy, then, is not so much timely and immediate satire but well-made, frequently contextless, and joke-heavy material. That’s how we wound up with Inside Amy Schumer’s “12 Angry Men” or Key & Peele’s “Aerobics Meltdown.” Even SNL’s oddball favorite “Darrell’s House” is mostly built on a joke about, well, editing. As a result, it would be too vague to call sketch more diverse what it is is more specific - and in a lot of cases, more cinematic. Over the last decade, the internet era opened doors to writers, creators, and comedians who didn’t come up through the traditional (and perhaps dated) comedy-theater route. But sketch comedy has shifted in the wake of our far-too-online era, and often for the better. Sketch comedy has always been one of the genre’s trusted forms, but as comedy has evolved - grown shorter, longer, bigger, stranger, launched numerous podcast networks - where does that leave good old-fashioned sketch comedy? Surely not in the dust. From Liza Minnelli and her lamp to “Too Much Tuna,” it’s been a great decade for sketch comedy.*
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