Did you think you could end the 2010s without one more viewing of David S. Pumpkins?
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Surely not in the dust.
But sketch comedy has shifted in the wake of our far-too-online era, and often for the better.
Thats how we wound up withInside Amy Schumers 12 Angry Men orKey & Peeles Aerobics Meltdown.
EvenSNLs oddball favorite Darrells House is mostly built on a joke about, well, editing.
Weve worked to alphabetically (its only fair!)
round up some of this decades best comedy sketches.
12 Angry Men (Inside Amy Schumer,2015)
Have you ever seen12 Angry Men?
Amy Schumer asks a pedestrian at the end of her episode of the same name.
and the man grimaces.
No, he says, wincing.
Contestants guess their way through categories like FidNa and Bye, Felicia!
FromDrakes Black Canadian(Yo, theres thousands of us!)
to Tom Hankss MAGA hat-wearing Doug (who recoils in horror at Hayess handshake), Black Jeopardyalways hits.
Celery Man (Tim and Eric,2010)
Nude Tayne is this generations cellar door.
The rest … well, Im sure you could piece this together.
(Watch it on Netflix.)
to an unwashed grape.
Its one of the most unique sketches not only of the decade but in the shows history.
Beck Bennetts character asks was the last thing to unite and delight the country.
Did You Read It?
), got old.
Flicker (Key & Peele,2012)
An escalating prank war between co-workers shot like itsMichael Clayton.
Its oddly touching, as well as a good lesson on how to use obsequious in a sentence.
I believe shestryingto say shes 5. up until the moment she abandons her with a skeevy male photographer (Will Forte).
Hader plays Anthony Peter Coleman, a veteran working through his PTSD by dissociating into his puppet Tony.
Haders sternness and seriousness in both human and puppet form is haunting and hilarious.
Romantic Comedy (The Birthday Boys,2013)
Is this …Marriage Story?
Sad Mouse (Saturday Night Live,2012)
What if they dont wave back?
The Matt & Ozdirected Digital Short brought depth and melancholy to the world of costumed Times Square mascots.
Its go-for-broke (pun intended)peakTim Robinson screaming, his voice straining itself as he bellows NO!
for four whole seconds.
until she started making jewelry is a loving send-up of independent artisans and Etsy-site-havers.
Consider Armisen yelling What time does the post office close?
a warning to anyone thinking about turning a hobby into a full-time job.
Its not just the music, Arturo Castro explains as the boys father, tears in his eyes.
He just hates the guys whole vibe.
I do go back and forth … for business that feels like the pinnacle of the episode.
(Watch it on Netflix.)
Enter Sabine (Kristen Stewart), the first person to enter Bayers (Whats your name?
I never had one.)
house and reallyseeher and love her for who she is.
Whats That Name?
With John Mulaney (Saturday Night Live,2019)
Whats That Name?
