Sketch comedy

But Also, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Two Ronnies, Not the Nine O'Clock News (and its successor Alas Smith and Jones), and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

[3] Charles Isherwood writes that Monty Python, like Benny Hill, "derived their sketch formats in part from the rowdy tradition of the music hall.

Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show; The Family from The Carol Burnett Show; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live; The Nerd from Robot Chicken; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums.

Recurring characters from Saturday Night Live have notably been featured in a number of spinoff films, including The Blues Brothers (1980), Wayne's World (1992) and Superstar (1999).

In South Bend, Indiana, area high school students produced a sketch comedy series called Beyond Our Control that aired on the local NBC affiliate WNDU-TV from 1967 to 1986.

A white man holds the neck of another grimacing white man while two white women talk.
Sketch comedy actors of Nightmare on Overwhelmed Street in 2018
John Cleese (right) and Michael Palin of Monty Python recreating the " Dead Parrot sketch " (aired in 1969) in 2014