Notable Sketches
Critics from such publications as Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide applauded a trio of sketches in which Thomas impersonated notable personalities in absurdist situations -- Edward Woodward as his Equalizer character reimagined as "the Humiliator" (who uses insults rather than guns to incapacitate criminals), Jack Palance miscast as a creepy sitcom star (who still uses his catch-phrase from Ripley's Believe it or Not!), and Max von Sydow as a depressed barber who inadvertently terrorizes his customers by chatting casually about his obsession with death.
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