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The History of Sketch Comedy
- By: Elle Key, Keegan-Michael Key
- Narrated by: Keegan-Michael Key
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Jan 4 20211 min
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Jan 28 202137 mins
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- Christopher
- 02-02-21
Nice to listen to someone who loves the subject
I have enjoyed this because it is well researched and Mr Key clearly enjoys his subject matter. If you are on the fence then the author/narrator's enthusiasm will carry it. It's always good to listen to something done with love of the subject matter. This shines through although I agree that its a bit American (with other reviewers). To my mind however this is a plus as with this hyper level of enthusiasm you could sell me piss as vinegar LOL.
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- Pauline
- 01-05-22
A history of American sketch comedy
Which is’nt a bad thing, but as a British listener it was hard to see British sketch comedy reduced to one episode, talking about comedy from over 40 years ago and more and missing out Not the Nine O’clock News, Big Train, The Fast Show, Smack the Pony and Green Wing to name a few feels like it’s selling things short on our side of the pond. Great presentation though.
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- Noel Mullen
- 31-01-21
Wonderful
This is brilliant, listen to the first episode and you’ll be hooked. Thank you Keegan-Michael Key and Audible!
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- Anonymous User
- 26-02-21
Great
This was a good podcast, I enjoyed listening to it. Good Job and thank you Audible for this podcast
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- Paul Curran
- 29-01-22
brilliant
This is a brilliant series. It's not overly funny, but that's not the point. It is a brilliant story about sketch comedy and makes you want to learn more. Keggan's love of sketch comedy is infectious. if you want to learn about the history and the games behind the most iconic sketches, this is the series for you.
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- BeDeBe
- 09-06-21
it begins with E
How do you write about entertainment without entertainment? Here's how. Read on from E then nter ... etc
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- Rick
- 15-02-21
Superb!!
I listened to this over the course of week. Every episode was well written and thought out. I had previously seen Keegan-Michael Key in a few movies, but didn't know much about his comedy career. A quick glance around YouTube soon corrected that. Now a huge fan!
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- DukeOfAwesomeness
- 11-09-22
Amazing
Hilarious from strat the finish with entertaining stories that are well read and role played by Keegan Michael-Key.
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- Customer
- 09-02-21
If you have to explain the joke...
It's not funny.
This entire thing is the epitome of that old adage.
The show is about explaining why it's funny... but never finds the funny.
The format is this:
Contemporary sketch as exemlar
Explain it's context in history
Exemplar sketch in history
Explain why it's funny
Repeat.
Which is all well and good, but the sketches all feel like a jock and a history nerd got together to write them after sharing a keg. So they all go like this:
My man [historical character] did [historic action] and farted. Oh no you didn't! It's funny because [history] and they farted.
So every sketch loses the history and the humour.
Which is a shame because beneath all the dad jokes, it's got some great content to understand the building blocks of comedy.
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- Michael Lush
- 15-09-23
Lacking in scholarship odd for a collage boy
So he is a Black American comedian who finds the sketches he is presenting (and frequently butchered) very very (very) funny... if he didn't think that, they wouldn't be in the show.
The history and dissection of the craft of improv and sketch was very interesting (though there was the overlong explanation of the Who's on First? routine he could (and did) use Four Candles for that).
He was even nice enough mention The Goon Show as great inspiration to Monty Python, but deemed that only member worth naming was ... Peter Sellers
What? No love for Spike? The subversive genius who began alternative comedy?
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