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Pilot Week vote: Would you watch more of Skit Happens?

What did you like? Who did you like? What could be improved?

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All week TV Tonight will be seeking your feedback on TEN’s Pilot Week, starting with Skit Happens by CJZ.

You can vote for each show, or better yet leave some feedback for the network.

What did you like? Who did you like? What could be improved?

And would you watch it again if new episodes were made?

Skit Happens is a return to classic Aussie sketch comedy with larger-than-life parodies, bursting with catchphrases, visual gags, stunt casting and funny sendups.

Prepare to discover Matt Preston’s biggest secret; meet Waleed Aly’s emergency stand-in; Sophie Monk’s latest reality franchise, “Cat Island”; and go behind the scenes of reality shows Married At First Sight and My Kitchen Rules.

Meet the biggest new characters: Juan the handyman, a ‘fridge whisperer’ whose aim is to liberate all the world’s whitegoods; Angelica, the bitter beauty blogger; the World’s Biggest Jockey who believes a conspiracy – and not his obesity –is stopping him from winning races; the Gap Year Girls, who are backpacking through Europe but are too afraid to leave their van; the Too Easy Plumber, who will unblock anything; plus, the enigmatic Rashid, aka ‘the Whispering Cabbie’.

Starring some of the nation’s top comedians including Vita Carbone, Heath Franklin, Jenna Owen, Neel Kolhatkar, Janis McGavin, Josh Glanc and Stuart Daulman, nothing is safe from a Skit Happens parody.

Would you watch more of Skit Happens?

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26 Responses

  2. Some of the skits had promise, such as the reality tv production meetings and the Matt Preston skit, however some like the Good Hospital one (which I wasn’t offended by) which just wasn’t funny. All they really had to do was revive Comedy Inc, which is still my favourite of them all (i’m 28 so factor that in). I thought that having Janis McGavin (ex comedy inc ensemble member) and Heath Franklin (Ronnie John’s ensemble member) would help greatly, but it still needs a lot off work if this was to be picked up for more eps. I believe sketch comedy is something that is sorely needed on Aussie TV, so please keep trying.

  3. Seriously appalled at Channel Ten’s offensive new show, Skit Happens. Hmm, making fun of us autistics? Hahaha so funny….not. How dare they make fun of autistic people for entertainment. It’s seriously sick. And not funny whatsoever. If the writers were really good at comedy they would have less offensive material that’s actually funny. Shame on you 10.

  4. It really wasn’t funny. I gave it a chance. I loved the Ronnie Johns Half Hour. Heath Franklin should revise that. Also, channel 10 gave away the punchline to the Matt Preston skit (the neck tattoo) during a commercial before the show aired. What is the point in doing that?

  5. Went in with an open mind and lasted 15 minutes. Apart from the skits on MAFS and Masterchef there was no context to anything else. How about some biting social observation? Something people could relate to? They couldn’t think of a plastic-bags-at-the-supermarket-sketch? The Waleed Aly body double sketch would have been hilarious if the double was actually doing all of Waleed’s speaking engagements, and they’d had Waleed himself confessing that nobody could tell the difference because “all muslims look the same”. Penis allergy? A borat-clone fridge repairer? Please. Just awful.

  6. Surely there was better on offer to TEN to include in the Pilot Week line up than this. Appalling show. Bad casting too. Bad production values inc costumes & makeup & selection of cast leads per sketch (eg Matt from Masterchef). Am really surprised that it ever got past the network screening / notes stage let alone the script assessment stage. Says something about TEN’s senior programming & content management.

  9. Wow I am a performer of comedy and that was the worst tv show I have had the unfortunate pleasure to watch. I am all for a go but please I have worked with some of the best in the business and to watch that was a reminder of how pc this world has become.some skits were straight out offensive picking on the disabled was a step in the wrong direction.Don’t try and make the everyday funny and if you are going to parody an existing tv show look at it from a child’s point of view.Ok an example is millionaire hot seat play it as if Eddie is Satan and it actually is a hot seat and if u get the question wrong it explodes or an Uber eats with a close shot of a guy ordering and as the bag is delivered it swings back to show he is on death row tag line everyone deserves a great last meal.

  10. Unfortunately the sketches were more misses than hits for me. The stronger ones were the TV focused ones – MKR, Masterchef, Voice, Married at First Sight. One made a nice comment about society in a funny way – like dating in 2018 & the Europe travelers never leaving their van. But if it it continued in its current form, I wouldn’t watch again. Too many lacked a punchline

  12. Absolutely terrible. So many skits went nowhere and had no real punchlines. The wife with a penis allergy? The MKR casting? Cringe. Surely Australia can do better.

  15. I reckon it could settle into decent show with some good laughs. I agree that it definitely needs a laugh track or a live studio element if it comes back though.

  16. I really wanted to like it but I gave up after 20 minutes. This will make me sound old but I feel that the show could’ve benefitted from having some of the skits performed in front of a live audience like full frontal did back in the day. It might be old fashioned but I think laughter from an audience can add energy to performances and the entire show that I feel this was lacking.

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