Simon Dunn

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Exit 57

Here’s the opening titles to the Comedy Central sketch show Exit 57.

As you can see from the typeface, this was a mid-nineties show, produced by The Kids In The Hall producer Joe Forristal. During its short twelve episode run, it garnered a few awards, and is listed at number 32 in Rolling Stone’s Greatest Sketch-Comedy TV Shows Of All Time.

Is it me, or does Stephen Colbert look like he’s in Spielberg’s A.I: Artificial Intelligence in this sketch:

Anyway, at least he found the magic money tree.

Here’s an old fan site breaking down the show by episode.

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