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The Dude’s High 5s: Sketch Comedy Skits

August 1st, 2012 by The Dude

Remember when sketch comedy was all the rage?  You don’t?  It wasn’t that long ago … ok, maybe it was the mid 90’s, but that’s what 15 years ago.  Fuck I’m old.  Well, today’s High 5 will be looking over some of my (and your) favorite skits from the various skit shows out there.

5. Classroom (Whitest Kids You Know)

This skit hearkens back to the simpler times when kids were all about candy and guessing which parent died in a car wreck.  It will always make me laugh.

 

4. Old Fashioned Guy (The State)

Whenever I say “Call me old fashioned but …” all I picture is Thomas Lennon whittling away and whistling.  To this day I still worship Orgo.

 

3. Sarcasm (Kids in the Hall)

There are so many great Kids in the Hall moments to choose from.  However I feel that this one pretty much sums up the attitude of the show for those unclean individuals that have never seen it.

2. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer (Saturday Night Live)

As a child of the 80’s, I grew up with a lot of weird shit on TV.  Alf, Small Wonder Growing Pains.  Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer was a brilliant take on the “wacky premise”.  It was complete with the contrived setup and the interesting sponsors.

 

1. President Herman (Mad TV)

For those of you that expected Celebrity Jeopardy as my number 1, I’m sorry to disappoint.  I love them, I do, but they became a crutch for a failing SNL run and became a bit watered down.  No, my number 1 comes from an unlikely source, Mad TV.  On the whole, I wasn’t a fan of Mad TV, however in its first season, it game us my favorite sketch of all time, President Herman.  Artie Lang sells the shit out of this as the no nonsense secret service agent explaining to a rarely sober President just how good he is at the job.

 

BONUS

Normally I like to keep these to 5, but I can’t let this category pass without Mr. Show’s famous Blow Up The Moon.

So what do you folks like from the realm of skits and sketch comedy?

  • MORS

    no In Living Color or Tim and Eric?

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    BLOW UP THE MOON! Amazing.

  • http://www.fiveanddimecomics.com/ The Dude

    I missed the boat on Tim and Eric. I don’t watch them at all.

    All I remember of In Living Color is Wanda and Fire Marshall Bill. Those are only funny to me today because of who played them.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    If nothing else, The Dude’s list gets people talking. Don’t worry, he’s not as dumb as he seems! There’s a method to his madness.

  • http://www.fiveanddimecomics.com/ The Dude

    Yup.

  • MORS

    haha

    you know, I can’t think of an In Living Color sketch myself. I will say great job with Mr. Show and Whitest Kids You Know

  • TomDanks

    Great list. The Whitest Kids U Know have some other great ones like how Abraham Lincoln actually got killed, the version of Hamlet in the background is epic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvkBvzpbBPs

    Or the grapist.

  • http://www.fiveanddimecomics.com/ The Dude

    That’s a good one. I also love Hunting Accident

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeknTzuHxnw

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    Monty Python: The Parrot Sketch

    Mr. Show: The Pre-Taped Call-In Show

    SNL: More Cowbell
    Charlie Murphy: True Hollywood Stories: Prince (or Rick James)

    Kids in the Hall: Becoming A Man

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Pretty much everything Chapelle and Mr. Show for this guy right here.

    The Playa Hater’s Ball may be one flying under the radar.

    http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/v64ifb/chappelle-s-show-the-playa-hater-s-ball

  • Riff

    Possibly my favorite sketch ever. So dumb, but I laugh every time.

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyrM7GxyzGg&w=420&h=315

  • TomDanks

    I dont know if any of you guys whatched the show Human Giant with Aziz Ansari, Rob Hubbel, and Paul Schaffer but they got some good ones.

    the hardest part about roller blading is telling your parents your gay…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9q30Ce2vwE

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    FUCK YES, Human Giant. Rendar and I used to watch the shit out of it.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Rendar Frankenstein

    Fuck yes! I quote that sketch all the time!

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Respect!

  • http://www.omega-level.net Rendar Frankenstein

    I’ll never forget watching the pilot episode of Chappelle’s Show. Shit changed my life. Most notably, it’s final sketch:

  • http://www.fiveanddimecomics.com/ The Dude

    I am a complete and utter failure for totally forgetting about the Chapelle Show. The Racial Draft, World Series of Dice, Great moments in Hook-up History, Everything is cooler in Slo-mo … and thats not even mention True Hollywood stories. I need an ass kicking for this infraction.

  • TomDanks

    Fuck yea, the black white supremacist is genius.

  • seth

    In living color, homey the clown. SNL waynes world and church lady, the coneheads. Mad tv any of there animated stuff was always good plus spy vs spy.

  • seth

    I just thought of a good one, the benny hill show, theres a episode where some woman turns into she-hulk and runs after benny hill.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/pdensborn Peter Densborn

    There is so much material to draw from on this one. So many caveat sketch shows, with diamond gemstones buried in them.

    Chappelle Show was the greatest sketch comedy show of all time, in terms of quality of sketches, and cultural impact. Tyrone the crackhead was amazing, Rick James, there was so much quality in that show.

    In Living Color was big as FUCK when I was in grade school. Fire Marshall Bill, Homey the Clown, and more. It’s all we would talk about at the lunch table Monday mornings.

    I also thought The Ben Stiller show, although short lived, had a sketch or two that were pretty ridiculous.

    Of course The State had its moments, but wasn’t nearly as funny as I wanted it to be. I did like …I’m Doug and I’m outta heeeeeeeere. Dip My Balls in it was retarded, but funny.