'Sketch shows aren't dead'
David Mitchell has spoken up for the sketch show against claims that it’s a tired format.
He said that the short form presentation was ‘a very natural way to do comedy’ and here to stay.
‘It baffles me that people say the sketch show is going to be dead as a format,’ he told TV & Satellite Week. ‘What they mean is, “I saw a bad sketch show recently”.
‘No one ever says the sitcom's finished. The sketch show and the sitcom are the two obvious ways to present comedy and they will continue in pretty much the basic form they're in forever.’
The fourth series of That Mitchell And Webb Look starts on BBC Two at 9pm next Tuesday, July 13.
Published: 7 Jul 2010