13 Skits and Sketches That Became Films, Sitcoms & More [Photos] - Page 14

Real Husbands Of Hollywood went from a recurring skit that was the surprise highlight of the 2011 BET Awards to a bona fide parody show now in its third season.

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BET approved a fourth season, further speaking to how strong a premise the show had even as a comedy sketch. It’s another case of giving the people what they want, and we’ve seen it apply to everything from Twitter accounts and blogs to Saturday Night Live sketches. Here are 15 sketches, skits and parodies adapted for TV and movies.

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Producer and executive Deric “D-Dot” Angelettie shined on Biggie’s Life After Death album by cracking jokes at the expense of broke, D-list rappers. Maybe his ish really was more John Blaze since he parlayed that skit into a 1999 Madd Rapper album, Tell Em Why U Madd.

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Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone flipped their Saturday Night Live Digital Short “Lazy Sunday” into three fully fledged albums with cameos from T-Pain, Pharrell and Justin Timberlake. In August 2014, Variety reported Universal agreed to back a Judd Apatow-produced Lonely Island movie. Like a boss.

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In the ‘90s, Johnny Brennan and Kamal Ahmed raised prank calling to an art as The Jerky Boys. Their work spawned a movie and nine albums—including certified platinum-sellers, The Jerky Boys and The Jerky Boys 2.

The Taylor Gang morphed from a loose concept inside Wiz Khalifa’s weeded-out brain to a moniker for his devoted fans to an official indie label boasting Juicy J and Ty Dolla $ign as members.

There have been nearly a dozen Saturday Night Live sketches adapted to movies, and 1998’s A Night At The Roxbury easily ranks as one of the more random offerings. Steve and Doug Butabi just wanted to get in the club.

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The 25-year run of The Simpsons, which includes a movie, video game, and tons of related material was all spawned from crude, one-minute short-form sketches that appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show.

It didn’t last particularly long, but the 2010 CBS sitcom, $h*! My Dad Says gave hope to everyone who dabbles in social media. The show was based on comedian Justin Halpern’s Twitter feed featuring slick talk from his pops.

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Their 2001 movie might have featured a weird premise about guys smoking weed fertilized by their dead friend’s ashes, but do remember the title How High originated from a song on the soundtrack to The Show featuring Redman and Method Man doing what they do best.

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Geico’s advertising ploy of being “so easy a caveman can do it” was so popular it helped inspire a series based on three struggle cavemen trying to make it in a modern city. It was canceled after one season proving that sometimes less is more.

Whether you called it the dozens, snapping, bagging or something else, cracking jokes on people’s mothers have been good money for decades. In 2006, actor Wilmer Valderrama flipped the concept into a MTV sketch comedy show named Yo Momma that lasted three seasons and featured E-40, Fat Joe, Jadakiss and others.

Robin Harris rose up the comedy ranks with roles in Do The Right Thing, House Party and Harlem Nights before his death in 1990. But his popular routine of Bébé’s Kids was adopted into an animated feature film and spawned a new nickname for people’s terrible offspring.

Christian Lander took some hilarious commentary about racial stereotypes from his blog to a New York Times bestseller with Stuff White People Like.

If the above scene from the movie Belly seemed familiar even upon the first viewing, blame Nas. The exchange between Sincere and Shorty is pretty much a recreation of Nas’ third verse from the Illmatic track “One Love.” Check the credits, and you’ll see Nas credited as a co-writer.