British comedy less cerebral humour of Benny Hill and his ITV sketch series "The Benny Hill Show". Other notable sketch-based series include "Morecambe and Wise", "The Two Ronnies", "The Goodies", "French and Saunders", "Absolutely", "Little Britain", "The Catherine Tate Show" and "The Fast Show". In the 1980s, alternative comedy was spearheaded by Ben Elton and The Comic Strip group which included Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, and French and Saunders. "Vic Reeves Big Night Out" influenced the style of a whole new generation of comics in the 1990s until the present day. The 1990s and 2000s (decade) have also seen the rise of
Sketch comedy contemporary American stage sketch comedy groups include "The Second City", the "Upright Citizens Brigade", "The Groundlings" and the cast of Saturday Night Live. Such sketches made during the 1970s and 1980s were "If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind" and the sequel "Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?", "The Groove Tube", "The Kentucky Fried Movie" and its sequel "Amazon Women on the Moon", Monty Python's "And Now for Something Completely Different" and "The Meaning of Life". Other sketch films in later years were "The Underground Comedy Movie" and its sequel "InAPPropriate Comedy" and "Movie 43". Many of