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A live-action sketch-comedy show on Nickelodeon that functioned as "Saturday Night Live for kids." Premiering in April 1994, All That launched stars including Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, and Amanda Bynes while anchoring Nickelodeon's beloved "SNICK" Saturday-night block with its irreverent humor and memorable recurring sketches.
The sketch show that owned the mid-2000s. Dave Chappelle's Comedy Central juggernaut turned razor-sharp racial satire and absurd characters into the most-quoted comedy of the decade — "I'm Rick James, b****!" echoing down every school hallway.
Keenen Ivory Wayans brought irreverent Black sketch comedy to primetime and stacked the cast with unknowns named Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, and David Alan Grier — while the Fly Girls' dance breaks included a young Jennifer Lopez. It won an Emmy in its first season, and its live Super Bowl halftime stunt rewrote how the NFL books the big game.
Nickelodeon's wildest Saturday-night experiment: sketch comedy fused with full dance numbers and musical performances, taped before a live audience. Built around the "Anyfamily" and their everyday problems, each episode ended with the cast singing the theme a cappella over the credits. It debuted on SNICK's opening night in 1992.
Amanda Bynes was thirteen when she became Nickelodeon's entire comedy machine — a rotating cast of characters who never ran out of sketches or failed to land the joke. The Amanda Show ran from 1999 to 2002, and if you were there, you still remember exactly how kids danced in Judge Trudy's courtroom.
MTV's 11-person sketch troupe lasted four seasons and 25 episodes but launched half the comedy you loved in the 2000s. They wrote, acted, directed, and edited everything themselves — and left behind $240 worth of pudding.
Nickelodeon's high-school comedy lived a double life: it kicked off as a sketch show before pivoting into a genuine sitcom halfway through its run. Set at Hawthorne High with a chaotic crew of teens and a perpetually flustered vice principal, it's the kind of show you caught between Salute Your Shorts reruns and forgot you ever loved.