In Popular Culture
Groundlings who have been cast on Saturday Night Live and Mad TV often turn their sketches and characters created at The Groundlings into TV audience favorites. Various television shows and movies are also based on Characters and sketches that were created and/or developed at The Groundlings such as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Elvira, A Night at the Roxbury, and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. In 1998, the Groundlings were given their own improv television program on the F/X network called Instant Comedy with The Groundlings. In September 2008, The Groundlings began producing short form sketch episodes for Crackle.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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