Saturday Night Live (1975-)
According to Tina Fey: ''Sketch endings are overrated. Their key was to do something as long as it was funny and then just stop and do something else.''
SCTV (1976-84)
Martin Short: ''Their influence was that absurdity in character could replace the punchline, the ba-dum-bum thing.''
Cheech and Chong films like Up in Smoke (1978)
Tommy Chong: ''They were the first to really show the world how funny men dressed as women could look.''
The Kids in the Hall (1988-94)
Kevin McDonald: ''We, at the very least subconsciously, stole things. We tried not to, but what can you do? It's like how every rock group sounds like the Beatles.''
The Simpsons (1989-)
Creator Matt Groening: ''I just saw this streak in British humor of whimsical surrealism with just a hint of cruelty, and I found that incredibly appealing.''
Christopher Guest films like Waiting for Guffman (1996) Catherine O'Hara: ''I didn't know any of the rules of sketch comedy at the time, but I knew in my gut they were breaking them all. They were fearless in their silliness.''
The Daily Show (1996-) Stephen Colbert: ''There was one phrase they used. . .'justly underrated' — that torturing of words, when the words eat themselves, you'll find that all through the stuff I do.''
Austin Powers (1997-2002)
Mike Myers: ''Everything I've ever done can be distilled to at least one Python sketch. If comedy had a periodic element table, Python would have more than one atom on it.''
South Park (1997-)
Cocreator Matt Stone: ''They talked different, dressed different. Python was surreal and absurdist — so f---in' smart.''
Country music (ongoing)
Clint Black, who's performed Meaning of Life's''Galaxy Song'': '''The Penis Song' just wouldn't do. If you go through my music and find the ridiculous, that was Python's influence.''
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