Sketch comedy

York.

But by the time I got there, Sketch was pretty much dead.

There was like no one really doing Sketch.

What year did you get to New York?

08.

Exactly.

I

mean, Sketch, we tried to make a show with Cocoon Central.

If we win every game we've got 38 times, I think you could be looking at the new Premier League champions.

um this is a little bit of soul i like to kick off the happy hour with a bit of soul it puts a smile on my face and this one has a title that suggests everything we need for happy hour this is no sad songs by oscar tony jr there we go no sad songs oscar tony jr now as well as being happy hour uh can't have escaped your notice this week that is national bad sketch show week um I don't think that's actually what they're calling it, but clearly it must be.

I can't see any other reason why there would be so many bad sketch shows on TV at the moment.

So I thought what we do, this show never likes to miss out on anything.

So what I'd like, as well as all your good news and your good deeds from the week, I'd like you to come up with some comedy characters for what I'm going to call the John Richardson Show, John Richardson Show.

where the john richardson radio show will next week um launch a sketch show called the john richardson show john richardson show i will make i will write me and ford will get together and touch our creative uh genius minds together and write a sketch based on the best um generic sketch show character you can come up with today so what you're looking to do is combine a stereotype with a regional accent and a place of work and um my my own suggestion would be uh alan the very camp bicycle repairman that's uh that's character number one that i'm going to be working on uh so if as well as your good deeds you can send in some generic sketch show characters i will peruse those and pick the best of them to play next week on the show There we go, that's Now It's On by Grandaddy.

That is a happy hour request.

That was requested by Ali and Leon C for last week.

To an extent.

So I very much love improv, but I primarily come from the world of scripted theater and sketch comedy in particular.

I have a deep love of sketch comedy and think that it doesn't have the exploration that it deserves in a modern context.

So Stephen, who you also met at OSIF.

is the supernova of improv within our partnership.

I could have been fine on spontaneous combustion circa 2010.

But I didn't start doing improv until April of 2013, about a year after I graduated university.

My creative partner at the time, Dustin Tannehill, and I We wanted to go to the improv theater for the purpose of looting the talent for our own sketch comedy project.

And unbelievable experience because I'm s- in some way getting to do, you know, the, the, you know-

The sketch comedy thing

...

the sketch comedy show.

Yeah.

With a big group of people-

okay time now for the watch list our recommendations for the best of tv and film for the week ahead and i'm joined today by writer henrietta mccurvey and film and tv producer owen sweeney welcome back folks hi how are you brendan oh and the sketch show no worries if not yes is back it kind of comes out irregularly but there's a season three i think back on rte2 That's right.

It

started last Thursday.

That's my own one disclaimer.

But the core cast features Sean Burke, Michael Fry, Justine Stafford, Emma Dorn and Cillian Sunderman, who will be famous to lots of people, particularly younger viewers, because of their online work.

So it's kind of really interesting, and I'd love to do this, but the melding of online comedy and the quickness of that delivery with the traditional sketch show format.

Yeah, but they've done it pretty well.

They have done it excellently well.

Yes.

But the beautiful thing about sketch comedy and stuff like that is if you write stuff about people and you're having a bit of a jab, but nobody thinks it's about them.

So you meet fellas and they go, nerdy, nerdy, I love the sketch.

I know a fella just like that.