Feature Image by JT Yost for the comic, “So Buttons” written by Jonathan Baylis Sketch comedy is one of the greatest arts to skewer pop culture and politics. Live comedy shows go back to the days of vaudeville and music halls; with the advent of commercial broadcast TV, satire and sketch comedy eventually found a new stage. Programs like Your Show of Shows and the Smothers Brothers’ Comedy Hour in the United States or The Goon Show and Monty Python’s Flying Circus in the UK, put the absurdities of life under a microscope and highlighted its biggest gaffes and atrocities. The most popular and longest-running of these shows, Saturday Night Live, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year. Having an empty spot in an ever-growing number of hours in a broadcast days, NBC wo...