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Meanings of sketch comedy in English

Russian
телеварьете
Portuguese
programa de variedades
Spanish
comedia de sketches
Catalan
comèdia d'esquetxos

Radio and television format; television genre; radio genre.

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телеварьете
Russian
скетч-шоу

Series of short comedy scenes or vignettes.

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скетч-шоу
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Examples for "sketch show"
Examples for "sketch show"
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The news was shared on the late-night sketch show's official Instagram page.
Ebony
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Another observational sketch show, with impressions: is that a good idea?
The Guardian
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The whipsmart Channel 4 sketch show Smack the Pony had ended.
The Irish Times
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The British funnyman was best known for his comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies.
News.com.au
5
Hashtag and Bukake, the London-Turkish cab drivers from Cardinal Burns' Channel 4 sketch show.
The Guardian
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When she's not blogging at Beneath the Surface, she's producing her YouTube sketch series, 14 Days of Funny.
Ebony
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Kidding is Jim Carrey's first regular TV role in almost 25 years, not since a sketch series called In Living Color.
News.com.au
3
The alleged assault took place the night Williams was scheduled to perform on Nick Cannon's MTV sketch series, Wild 'N Out.
Ebony
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He picked up the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, adding to his Emmy haul for his work on sketch series Key & Peele.
News.com.au
5
She was recently asked, with close friend Kyle Dunnigan, to help write a sketch series for Comedy Central with its star, Amy Schumer.
The Guardian
Usage of sketch comedy in English
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I've had the fortunate opportunity to do sketch comedy for 15 years.
Reuters
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It is his second appearance on U.S. network NBC's sketch comedy show.
Reuters
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Given Australia's disastrous history of 21st-century sketch comedy, that's not necessarily a plus.
The Guardian
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Samberg left the NBC late-night sketch comedy show in 2012 after seven years.
Reuters
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It's a precarious business, sketch comedy, for all sorts of reasons.
The Guardian
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It is single-handedly going to revive sketch comedy from the wet, wet mud.
The Guardian
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All of this work, from hallucinogenic sketch comedy Tim And Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!
The Guardian
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Basically, this is what Google looked like in the world of 1980s British sketch comedy.
Wired
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The impact of their sketch comedy, so surreal, silly and pioneering, can be criminally understated.
The Guardian
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In that way, Mr. Show managed to perfect YouTube-ready sketch comedy before YouTube was ever invented.
Wired
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My original intention on YouTube was to make sketch comedy where I play all the characters.
Wired
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Has sketch comedy helped you develop that skill?
Ebony
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It's basically the fast-paced maneuverability of online sketch comedy and satire partnered with Stewart's established voice.
Wired
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NBC's weekly sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" also was knocked out of production.
Reuters
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They certainly didn't want to adhere to TV sketch comedy's default mode, which is often overly theatrical.
The Guardian
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It's something we've seen the actors do regularly on their hit sketch comedy series, Key and Peele.
Ebony
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