Nerve.com has come up with a list. I'd quibble with some of the choices, but at least they have all the major troupes represented: Sid Caesar, Python (I've have included "Nudge Nudge," tho) SNL, SCTV, The Kids in the Hall...
And I guess I can understand them not including the Daily Show or Colbert Report.
But they left out a couple by focusing only the televisual, even if for obvious reasons.
For instance...
Mel Brooks as the 2000-year old man, with Carl Reiner, the world's greatest living straight man (George Burns and Bud Abbott having passed on).
This is from a cartoon adaptation of their early-'60s comedy album made (I think) in the late '70s.
The jazzy fun of Stan Freberg.
This is a lovely video put together by a YouTuber called cputb1 illustrating a sketch from Freberg's "United States of America" album.
And what's Jack Benny, chopped liver? Here we have convincing proof that Jack had the finest writers in the business: They could make Frank Sinatra seem funny...
Or the Muppets? Here, Milton Berle meets his match...
And all you need to know about this one is that it's Groucho Marx...and some lady called Marilyn Monroe. It was her first major appearance in films; she was 23.
(OK, so this isn't one of the greatest sketches ever filmed. But its Groucho and Marilyn, man.)
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