And yet Schumer’s remake in all its black-and-white, star-studded glory would go down as one of the more audacious and well-made pieces of comedy of the decade.
“Yeah,” he says, to which Schumer then asks, “Wouldn’t you love to see a remake of that?” and the man grimaces. “Have you ever seen 12 Angry Men?” Amy Schumer asks a pedestrian at the end of her episode of the same name. Pumpkins” or “Continental Breakfast”?) to bizarre marvels (“Sammy Paradise” is a highlight, though the singular “Maya Angelou Prank Show” is worth a revisit) and everything in between. The list below ranges from popular favorites (Did you think you could end the decade without one more viewing of “David S. The decade also bid farewell to some of the old and beloved - Key & Peele, Portlandia - and welcomed the new and exciting - A Black Lady Sketch Show, I Think You Should Leave. Saturday 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.
#LONELY OSKETCH TV#
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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