The Final Edition

This week, all the sketches are related to history. The Middle Ages. The Revolutionary War. The Civil War. World War Two. 19th century Kansas. And the Supreme Court - from the Final Edition’s mini-series on the Supreme Court, which is still available on Howl, I think.

ARGH! SORRY! UPLOADED THE WRONG EPISODE LAST TIME!

… Anyway, this is the right episode.

All these sketches are about music - or ARE music. This includes two parodies of the radio show “Echoes” - that ambient music thing that’s always playing on Public Radio in the middle of the night. It’s been on the air since 1989, and most comedy shows don’t even do ONE parody of Echoes at all. We’ve got two.

It’s all sketches about animals. Cats and dogs and a sea elephant and bears and a rat and a rabbit. Please adopt this episode.

These are all sketches about the law. I don’t mean crime. We’ve got enough of THOSE sketches for a separate show. I mean the law itself and its various agents. The police, of course. Lawyers, of course. Prisons, of course. Executions, of course. Acne. High school. Blooper shows. All of it.
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This week, all the sketches were improvised. Not a thing was written in advance except, sometimes the intro, the outro or the general premise - and sometimes not even that. We’d improvise for some amount of time, then I’d go through and try to edit out as much as possible. And that’s the product.
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We bury you in sketches about corporations - mostly about getting jobs at one, trying to hold onto that job, and being entirely dependent upon these companies as a customer. ... I mean, loosely interpreted, virtually any sketch about anything these days is ultimately about corporations - but I limited it to that extent.
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Sketches from the last few years about all facets of media - online, radio, TV, newspapers … basically, my resume. The same lack of focus, the same apparent frenzy to adapt. So come enjoy the ridiculous mess that is America’s primary source of public information.

Sketches that are still good, I think, but are so obviously dated that we can’t disguise it. They come from as far back as the show’s first year in 2012. Scott Walker’s recall election. The 2014 presidential election. Some asinine thing Justin Bieber said, like, six years ago. And a whole bunch of other crap you’ve completely forgotten about. And we’ve got plenty more. This will not be the last one of these shows we do.

We continue watching the very nature of news coverage deteriorate - as well as the nature of writing jokes about it. Also, some sketches from a few years ago - one or two of them may be obvious - that go to prove that everything has always been pretty much this ridiculous.

Well … not this ridiculous.

We’ve got summer activities, including a sketch about Disney. And not one but two sketches about the show Law and Order. We also want to remind you that malls are dying, catch-phrases are being retired, song lyrics have subtlety whatsoever anymore and Abbott and Costello are still relevant.