Human Giant is an MTV sketch comedy show from a couple of years back. It's not actually cancelled or ended, it's just on indefinite hiatus while Aziz Ansari is busy with Parks and Recreation.
Most sketch shows have more than three castmembers (although Little Britain has only two), but they make it work by using guest stars, writing sketches that don't have a lot of characters, or by playing multiple roles. I like the sense of humour on this show because it's outside the mainstream: weird and wacky with unexpected punchlines (actually I did predict some of the sketch endings, but they still made me laugh). They also break the sketch formula somewhat by not being too repetitive with their recurring characters. Other sketch shows tend to just plug their popular characters into different scenarios but use the same jokes every time; Human Giant uses different jokes in different scenarios like a regular sitcom. But most of their sketches are one-offs, so that you're not rolling your eyes going "This again?" every episode. One thing I have to say is that the very first episode was probably the funniest and most brilliant of the season, and the rest didn't quite match it, but it's still a hilarious show with a lot of original material.
Best Sketches:
- "Attack Dogs", where the guys discover that they can get anything they want through sympathy by having a dog attack them on command
- "Mother and Son Moving Company", about a mother who puts furniture on top of her son so that she can use the adrenaline from a loved one being in danger to successfully move it by herself
- "Self-Defense", in which a mugger/sexual predator takes a self-defense class and complains that his victims will know how to thwart him
- "Swindle Tips", an instructional video series in which a sleazeball demonstrates how to get things for free and thinks he's exploiting the system when he isn't
- "Illusionators", two Criss Angel-like magicians who perform impossible and ridiculous illusions
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