The Newz

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The Newz
Genre	Sketch comedy Parody
Starring	Tommy Blaze Mystro Clark Deborah Magdalena Dan O'Connor Stan Quash Brad Sherwood Nancy Sullivan Shawn Alex Thompson Lou Thornton
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
Production
Executive producer(s)	Michael Wilson
Producer(s)	Jon Ezrine
Co-producer(s)	Wayne Page
Broadcast
Original run	October 1994 – March 1995
External links
IMDb profile

The Newz was a half-hour syndicated sketch comedy television series that aired in 1994 and 1995.^[1] It starred Tommy Blaze, Mystro Clark, Deborah Magdalena, Dan O'Connor, Stan Quash, Brad Sherwood, Nancy Sullivan, Shawn Alex Thompson, and Lou Thornton. In addition to the main cast, regular guest stars included Melissa Savage, Mark Fenlon, Justin Cambridge, and Tim Watters as Bill Clinton.

The show was notable for being nightly, rather than weekly as are most sketch comedies; the show would air five nights a week, plus a repeat episode on Saturdays.

Recurring segments included:

Tommy Blaze and the Newz, in which Blaze would deliver what was basically a monologue on recent news events.
Ask Abby and Andy, a relationship advice segment in which Abby (Sullivan) would give caring, insightful advice in response to the mailed-in problems, after which Andy (Blaze) would give his outrageous point of view on the subject.
Short humorous films by Thompson.
Quash as someone who was extremely disgruntled because of his job; e.g., as "Elf Boy" who hated working for Santa Claus, or as "Caddy Boy" who was sick and tired of putting up with bad golfers.

According to Blaze, the show was canceled after "the Executive Producer - not Michael Wilson - had misplaced about 1.5 million dollars."^[2]