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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: dave from knoxville on August 05, 2008, 09:52:03 AM
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Here's one take on it.
http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveeditors/50greatestcomedysketches/01/ (http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveeditors/50greatestcomedysketches/01/)
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wow, i thought nerve was just a porn site for eggheads. billbrasky on the comedy zone message board put together a pretty solid top 10 list before it blew up. here it is preserved on tsoya's blog (http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2007/07/top-ten-sketches-of-all-time.html).
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7. "Nairobi Trio," The Ernie Kovacs Show , 1956
If the list was "50 most unsettling things that call themselves comedy" that sketch would be the ultimo hombre. Scared me in my youth, still scares me now.
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I thought Chappelle's Show was great, but I'll never understand why the Black White Supremacist sketch is one of his most popular. I thought it was really obvious and too "on-the-nose" to be great.
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I thought Chappelle's Show was great, but I'll never understand why the Black White Supremacist sketch is one of his most popular. I thought it was really obvious and too "on-the-nose" to be great.
It's probably (as Brasky mentioned) that megaton last line that really seals it. It helps that Dave does a great crotchety-old-redneck voice.
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I was all ready to complain about "Lord & Lady Douchebag" not being on the list. But it's there!
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7. "Nairobi Trio," The Ernie Kovacs Show , 1956
If the list was "50 most unsettling things that call themselves comedy" that sketch would be the ultimo hombre. Scared me in my youth, still scares me now.
Absolutely!
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'The Audition' from Mr Show belongs. Also, nothing from Big Train!
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The Virginia Plane skit from Big Train should have been on there. I love that.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwnpsZW84FI[/youtube]
this.