Hype is a sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 television series on The WB Television Network

The WB Television Network

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. Most of the central jokes making fun of celebrities in the news at the time. The show however didn't garner enough attention and was canceled after one season, though two of its cast members (Frank Caliendo and Daniele Gaither) would go on to find success on the FOX sketch show MADtv.

Cast

• Steve Kramer
  Steve Kramer (actor)
  Steven M. Kramer is an American voice actor for many anime titles. He has also done voice acting for various Power Rangers series in the past, with the best-known of those roles being the voice of Darkonda in Power Rangers in Space. His wife, Melora Harte, is a voice actress...
  
  
• Michael Roof
  Michael Roof
  Michael Roof was an American television and film actor.Roof was born at an Air Force hospital in Tampa, Florida to Michael Roof, Sr. and Jean...
  
  
• Frank Caliendo
  Frank Caliendo
  Frank Caliendo is an American comedian and impressionist, best known for his work on the Fox Network television series MADtv, and as the in-house prognosticator for Fox NFL Sunday. In 2007 and 2008, he performed his impersonations on his own show, Frank TV, which aired on TBS...
  
  
• Jennifer Elise Cox
  Jennifer Elise Cox
  Jennifer Elise Cox is an American actress best known for her satirical portrayal of Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie.-Film roles:...
  
  
• Gavin Crawford
  Gavin Crawford
  Gavin Crawford is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for The Gavin Crawford Show and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Crawford is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of British Columbia...
  
  
• Daniele Gaither
  Daniele Gaither
  Daniele Gaither is an American comic actress. Gaither is most notable for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nadya Ginsburg
• Christen Nelson
• Shayma Tash