Word: skit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highlight of the Callbacks' program was the first skit, a parody of "Beverly Hills 90210," complete with three-inch sideburns and oneliners like "Am I being too sensitive...
...group geared their first skit to fast-track toddlers interested in learning to spell the hard way (e.g., sigh + chic = psychic, shoot + pa = chutzpah). The Veritones' second break was a lame plug for their auditions, starring no one other than Roseanne Rosannadanna. Eminently forgettable. The one skit that did show some originality was the commercial for the perfume "Insecure," the fragrance that says "You Suck...
...Hollywood. Wayne's World, the whimsical but relevant movie expanded from a recurring bit on TV's Saturday Night Live, reeled in an impressive -- no, an excellent -- $18 million in its opening weekend. Not since The Blues Brothers, a 1980 movie spun off from SNL characters, has a TV skit provided the cue for such a quick movie moneymaker. But The Blues Brothers' tab ran a chunky $30 million; Wayne's World cost less than $15 million and reaped lots of cheap promotion with an MTV special. For an industry eager to trim the bloat on spiraling spending, the message...
...those of us who weren't allowed to stay up until 11:30 on Saturday nights in the early 1980s the Al Franken Decade was a skit on Saturday Night Live. Alan S. Franken '73 declared that the 80s were his decade...
...Garth's (Dana Carvey) personality, making it a pleasure for SNL fans. Silly, yes, but unlike other meaningless comedies which possess feeble skeletons for a plot, Wayne's World boats no plot to begin with and does not attempt to simulate one. Knowing that the Wayne's World skits on Saturday nights are one of the last bastions of quality on the show, the makers of Wayne's World attempt to stretch a funny but plot-less skit into a movie...