Kevin McDonald is an actor, improviser, and comedian best known for his work with Canada's Kids in the Hall sketch comedy troupe. McDonald will be at Denver's Voodoo Comedy Playhouse all weekend, ...

Guys, dogs can’t type or read, right? GIVE IT UP SNOOPY JESUS. You can type, however, so here’s a heads-up that September is officially National Sketch Writing Month. Also, I was joking about that ...

Writing comedy in the age of Donald Trump poses many challenges, the most obvious being how to compete with a President determined to be more outrageous—and to draw more attention—than any form of ...

In Writing sketches, part one, we examined issues such as finding an idea and formatting, and simple comic techniques such as misdirection and callbacks. In this piece, we'll discuss further elements ...

While other actors on 'In Living Color' were handed prepared scripts, brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans were forced to write their own material. “Working on In Living Color was nerve-wracking, ...

Sketch comedy has been a staple of British television for decades. From Monty Python to The Fast Show, That Mitchell And Webb Look to Armstrong & Miller, great sketches have given us lots of iconic ...

"Our eyes connected and we were like, 'It's over.'" David Spade is taking a look back at the time when he and Tom Hanks wrote a comedy sketch on "Saturday Night Live." While appearing on Wednesday's ...

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