So who is your favorite television skit comedians?

I have to nominate Tim Conway and Red Skelton.

I just watched some Carol Burnett skits on Youtube and realized that Tim Conway still cracks me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB4KFsV7Bqk

Tim Conway, Jackie Gleason, Harvey Korman

Johnny Carson,

i thought all the characters he played were hilarious

The duct tape skits by Red Green are still funny to me.

Benny Hill has some funny ones

I think MR Bean(Rowan Atkins) is a master. That dude is funny just to look at. (Love the Queen inspection skit)

I used to get a kick out of Arti Johnson too (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In)

my all time favorite would have to be benny hill
my favorite from the states is still abbot and costello and robin williams

The young ones, on in the UK years ago and revolved around four students.

Or, Fawlty Towers.

Clerow "Flip" Wilson in the late 70's on TV

Monty Python gang doing the flying circus is hilarious.

Jack Benny

the Not Ready for Prime Time Players on
Saturday Night Live's early years (1975-80)
people couldn't wait to see the next weeks show...

I don't watch TV shows much anymore.
Do they even still have variety shows that have comedy skits? Is SNL still on and is it any good?

Anyone remember The Gong Show w/Chuck Barris?
"Gene Gene The Dancing Machine"

I watched a bit of Drew Carey's "Who's line Is It Anyway?"
Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles had the ability to crack me up. Problem was, it got old pretty quick.

I remember watching The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Smothers Brothers, The Flip Wilson Show, Sonny & Cher Hour and even The Muppet Show.

It seems to me, there is an element of humor that has been lost in television from those days of skits, bloopers and boners. Did they get put to pasture because of ratings or did they disappear because some 'powers that be' decided to push a different agenda?

They got replaced with sitcoms (situation comedies) that tried to use comedy to teach lessons. Nearly all the early prime time slots were sitcoms. The later slots were filled with crime and courtroom dramas. The escapades of skit comedies and their unscripted but aired bloopers faded away.

That light-hearted laughter is missing for most of today's generation. Broadcast humor has become sterilized. There's no more laugh just because its funny, there has to be a reason and that reason has to be politically correct.