"Mastergate" isn't a play; it is an extended burlesque sketch of a kind that may not have been heard in these parts since the close of Weber and Fields's Music Hall.
Braben also made Wise a would-be writer; their BBC shows in the 1970s would always climax with an extended sketch, introduced by Wise as "a play what I wrote."
An extended sketch of his life appears in the biographical department of this work.
Kovacs could use extended sketches and mood pieces or quick blackout gags lasting only seconds.
Mr. Martin's play is more like an extended sketch from the long-ago golden age of "Saturday Night Live."
He describes it as "an extended satiric sketch worthy of Monty Python", but suggests that some of the comic faux-Elizabethan language "fails to pass the test of grammar or scansion".
This version of the CD does not contain "The Bridge of Death" or the two extended sketches.
The highlights of the show are two extended sketches in which selected members of the audience participate.
Lee appeared as himself in an extended self-parodying sketch on the episode "Tapping a Hero" of Robot Chicken.
It's an extended cross-country sketch compared to his other films, which, though far more somber, are also funnier.