A television recommendation?
A television recommendation? What is this?
So, yeah. Since its premiere on Fox, I’ve actually taken to watching “The Sketch Show.” I can’t help it. It’s frisky. Like a puppy.
Kelsey Grammer’s name is all over the advertisements for the show, but he typically makes only brief appearances during the first and last sketches of each episode. A few of the performers will be recognizable to anybody who has spent time watching stand-up specials on Comedy Central. And occasionally the jokes turn into real chestnuts.
“The Sketch Show,” however, manages to get laughs in part because it corrects the problem shows like “MadTV” and “Saturday Night Live” usually exhibit.
The sketches on “The Sketch Show” are short. Short. Occasionally, ten seconds short.
And it works. While some of the jokes fall flat by virtue of their age, others work brilliantly – and they work brilliantly because they don’t have time to get old. It’s fun, it’s rapid-fire, and it’s thirty minutes a week that feels a lot more like ten.
And there are no celebrity guests.
Groovy.