Saturday Night Live

"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" Saturday Night Live is a sketch comedy show that has run since the fall of 1975. Many now-famous actors and actresses such as Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Paul Shaffer, Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Martin Short, Damon Wayans, Joan Cusack, Robert Downey Jr., Dennis Miller,...

MADtv

Like a demented offspring of Saturday Night Live and In Living Color, sketch comedy series Mad TV mines the world of popular culture for subjects ripe for parody. Based on the comic stylings of Mad magazine, the series satirizes celebrities, music videos, television shows, and more through outrageous sketches, a unique assembly of recurring characters, and the uninhibited zaniness of cast...

Chappelle's Show

"Chappelle's Show" takes comedian Dave Chappelle's own personal joke book and brings it to life, with episodes consisting of sketches, man-on-the-street pieces, and pop culture parodies introduced by Dave in a stand-up format in front of a studio audience. Chappelle's unique point-of-view on the world provides a hilarious, defiant and sometimes dangerous look at American culture, including music, movies, television, advertising, current events, and everyday life situations.

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1998-2004) is based on the British show of the same name, which aired from 1988 to 1998. It features some of the nation's finest improvisational comedians, including Florida's Wayne Brady, Canada's Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles and Drew Carey from The Drew Carey Show. Each week, the preceding four and a rotating group of actors and actresses spontaneously played...

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

In society, there are many products and ideas that we buy in to. Some of these products, services or ideas are just plain bullshit. Well known magicians: Penn and Teller are here to knock some sense into people in a humerous and informal way and to explain why some things in life are just plain bullshit. Show has been renewed for Season 4 and Season 5 for 10 episodes for each season.

Nick Cannon Presents Wild 'N Out

Nick Cannon and MTV are about to bring the street to the stage with Wild N’ Out- A half hour of unpredictable snaps and outrageous situations. Every episode, it’s Nick vs. A-List celebrities, as each leads their own team of improv comedians in an attempt to come out on top in a variety of ridiculous comic throw downs. Traditional improv games get a hip-hop twist as Nick and others rip the headlines-and reputations. It all culminates in a freestyle comedy battle to decide who wins fame and who...

Rock Star

Rock guitarist Dave Navarro and sizzling television personality Brooke Burke host “Rock Star: INXS”, a pioneering new reality show produced by “Survivor’s” Mark Burnett. The show combines the world of rock and roll with the elements of an unscripted reality series. The 15 performers, who will live together in a Hollywood Hills home, face tough competitions and a weekly elimination. The grand prize for the last singer standing will be the coveted lead singer spot of the world renowned band...

The Underground

Damon Wayans is at it again! Damon Wayans, a comic actor and producer/writer, brings his humor to Damon Wayans' The Underground . It is a reminscent of the hit comedy sketch show of the 90's,In Living Color. The show features recurring characters from In Living Color, parodies of the pop culture, and the up bringing of new sketch performers. Also music and dance is used to adjoin the moments of laughter. Behind-the-scenes clips is used to give the audience humor showing how the show was put...

Welcome to the Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway guide at TV.com. The show is hosted by the comedic duo Ant & Dec, and typically runs for two series of 6-10 episodes a year. Each episode is approximately 1 hour witch advert breaks. The variety show's primary focus is the chance for those in the audience to "Grab The Ads" - win the items featured in a given commercial break on ITV1...

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme, currently presented by Simon Amstell and produced by talkbackTHAMES for the BBC. It is usually aired on BBC Two. The title plays on the names of the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks album, and the band Buzzcocks. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.

Drew Carey's Green Screen Show

Drew Carey hosts a very zany, "Whose Line"-esque comedy show. The catch? Everyone acts it out in front of a green screen. So, whereas regular improv uses imaginary plots and scenes, different animation studios all over the country fill in the background and, in some cases, the foreground, with the kind of images produced by our mind's eye. After being cancelled by WB, the show will begin...

Set For the Rest of Your Life

This thrilling, tension-fraught new game show gives contestants the chance to be "set for life." Each contestant must engage in two separate battles: one to determine the amount of a monthly check, the next to determine how long he or she will continue to receive that check. The prize could be $50 a month for the next year or so...or it could be more than $10,000 a month for the next 70 years! Of course, the outcome of the game depends not only on the contestant playing, but by the actions of...

This new reality series from NBC is hosted by Billy Bush and Denise Van Outen, and judged by David Ian, Jim Jacobs, and Kathleen Marshall. Some of the most powerful music producers in Hollywood are conducting a search for the male and female leads in an upcoming live stage production of Grease: The Musical. This show follows the contestants as they sing and dance in an attempt to become the...

Man Stroke Woman

Man Stroke Woman is an ensemble sketch comedy show from the BBC. Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hyperdrive) leads this gifted cast as they use dry humor and short skits to make light of common, everyday situations.

Thank God You're Here is an improv competition in which various comedic performers act in scenes without a script. The performers' comedy skills, improvisational fortitude and acting talents are then judged by Dave Foley. The winner receives a 'Thank God You're Here' trophy and 'Hollywood street cred.' This show is derived from the Australian show of the same name.

The Singing Bee

In this new NBC competition series, hosted by Joey Fatone, contestants vie to see who really knows all the lyrics to those popular songs that are constantly stuck in our heads. The house band, called The Buzz, would start the song and would then stop at a certain point in order for a contestant to sing the rest of the song verse. Miss one word and you're out; nail the song and you win big!

Age of Love

Age of Love centers on Melbourne tennis champion Mark Philippoussis (age 30) as he's wooed by a group of thirteen special ladies. What Philippoussis doesn't know is that these women range in age from 21 to 48. Will he go for one of the younger gals, or will he become smitten by someone more mature?

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Ordinary adults must try their luck at a series of questions targeted at the fifth-grade level. The adults will be asked questions from elementary school textbooks. There are five children as classmates that can help the adults through out the process. The contestants have the opportunity to answer 10 subject questions for 500,000 and one additional question to win a million dollars. The...

Britain's Got Talent

The search for the next big variety act in the UK is on with ITV's Britain's Got Talent. Popular comedians and hosts Ant and Dec join the judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden on this highly anticipated show that will culminate in not only a big cash prize of £100,000 for the winning act, but also a starring slot performing in The Royal Variety Performance.