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skit

noun

Definition of skit

as in comedy

a short, funny story or performance One of the funniest skits in the show was about cheerleading.

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Recent Examples of skit Focus Features Director Curry Barker is one of those internet stars, a YouTube content creator who gained a huge following making horror shorts and comedy skits. — Luke Burbank, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026 Two of the skits were based on The View and depicted the Republican cohost as ditzy — during an interview with Jenny McCarthy (Emma Stone), Bryant’s McCain was more concerned with chatting about The Masked Singer than vaccines. — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2026 Producers also told Nischelle Turner, the co-host for Entertainment Tonight, that Swift’s skit was kept tightly under wraps and that only 10 people knew about it. — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 Emmie – as a skit featuring Epic employees dressed as colorful AI agents illustrated – is designed to answer common questions more reliably than general-use chatbots. — Michael L. Millenson, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for skit

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This week’s episode is hosted by Shane Gillis, marking his third time hosting the NBC sketch comedy series since being fired as a cast member in 2019 over resurfaced racist and homophobic remarks.

— Anna Tingley, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Ackie didn’t only discuss horror, but also comedy during her appearance, including I Love Boosters.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of comedy

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There’s no winking at the audience, no sense of camp or parody, just a lot of appealing interactions, plus some wholly superfluous tertiary plots added to expand the story to series length.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
The punch-worthy parody of Altman’s characterization ramps up once he’s motivated to push back against — or trample over — the safety guardrails that Ilya prizes above all else, but so does the depth of his world-breaking cynicism.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of parody

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The picture painted from the interview subjects, who occasionally draw sketches of weapons-screen interfaces on notepads, is of a computerized tracking-and-killing apparatus, culled from the surveillance Israel keeps of nearly every phone in Gaza.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
But frescos don’t put shoes on a poor child’s cold feet and sketches of flying machines didn’t put Orville Wright in the sky.

— Christopher Koopman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

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