Source Material
Most of the broadcasts are from ESPN's archives. Among them:
- Wide World of Sports broadcasts
- Professional wrestling
- National Spelling Bees
- World Series of Poker final tables
- Steve Garvey celebrity sporting events
The show was influenced chiefly by Mystery Science Theater 3000 and MTV's Beavis and Butt-head, as the hosts' comment on the material in the style of a peanut gallery. The "Creative Breaking/K-1 Fighting" episode featured Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000, in their theatrical silhouette form, cracking on sketches the Brothers performed.
Cheap Seats was shot in New York City (with segments filmed in Los Angeles) and had made use of local comedians as guest stars in its sketches, including Ed Helms of The Daily Show, Michael Showalter of The State and Ian Roberts of The Upright Citizens Brigade. Most of the bit parts were played by stand-up comics whom Jason and Randy met during their years on the road as standup comedians themselves.
ESPN Classic broadcast an all-day marathon of Cheap Seats episodes on Thanksgiving Day 2004, an homage to the similar marathons of MST3K that were frequently run on Comedy Central during Thanksgiving in the first half of the 1990s.
Many other comedians have made cameos on the show as characters, including Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt, Aziz Ansari, and Zach Galifianakis, who took a break from the Comedians of Comedy tour to tape their parts during the summer of 2005.
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