Comedy Inc - The Late Shift

Comedy Inc.
Comedy Inc. The Late Shift Logo
Starring	Gabriel Andrews Ben Oxenbould Mandy McElhinney Genevieve Morris Katrina Retallick Paul McCarthy Jim Russell Emily Taheny Scott Brennan Simon Mallory Rebecca De Unamuno Fiona Harris Janis McGavin
Country of origin	Australia
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	96
Production
Executive producer(s)	Carl Fennessy Mark Fennessy
Location(s)	TCN-9 Willoughby, New South Wales
Running time	43-44 minutes
Production company(s)	Crackerjack Productions
Distributor	FremantleMedia
Release
Original network	Nine Network
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Original release	19 February 2003 – 26 December 2007
External links
Website

Comedy Inc. was an Australian sketch comedy television series, which ran on the Nine Network from 19 February 2003 to 26 December 2007. The series was produced by Crackerjack Productions. It first premiered in February 2003 in the new wave of Australian sketch comedy shows being launched across the free-to-air channels along with Big Bite and skitHOUSE. Since the end of the series episodes have been repeated on the Foxtel cable channel, The Comedy Channel and during 2009, reruns were shown on Nine HD before the channel's closure.

When the series debuted, it rapidly gaining the highest ratings of the three sketch comedies then on Australian television. It subsequently gained numerous nominations for major Australian and international film and television awards. The show has also proved to be more commercially successful in Australia than its rivals and was the first to release a DVD of content from the series.

The show had many different formats. For example, a more risqué variation of the series was broadcast in 2005, entitled Comedy Inc: The Late Shift. The episodes were aired at a later time, because of the content. The Late Shift aired from 2005 until to the end of the series in 2007.

Comedy Inc. features original skits, impersonations and irreverent parodies of other television programmes and films. For example, popular Australian series such as Big Brother Australia, Dancing with the Stars, Australia's Brainiest Kid, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Renovation Rescue, Bob the Builder (as Bodgy Builder) and Thomas and Friends (as Ernest the Engine and Others) are frequently subject to many spoofs, as are Australian news and current affair programmes, such as Today Tonight and 60 Minutes.

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