Arts & Entertainment
'The (206)' Looks Almost Like 'Almost Live'
The YouTube trailers for "The (206)" features "Almost Live" alumni John Keister and Pat Cashman, but no details yet on what the trailers preview. The classic show used to skewer Bellevue, Seattle and anything else in the Northwest.
That's how television show "Almost Live" immortalized the suburb of Bellevue late Saturday nights in the 1980s and 1990s. No local city, including Seattle, was safe from skewering.
SeattlePI.com is reporting that an online teaser trailer of a show that looks a lot like that classic KING5 television comedy show, which for a time had been picked up by the Comedy Central.
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The online trailer features "Almost Live" alumni John Keister and Pat Cashman, television and radio comedian and longtime columnist for the Bellevue Reporter.
However all the previews reveal is that "The (206)" is "intent on bringing comedy back to local TV." Stay tuned.
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What was your favorite "Almost Live" sketch? I have to admit, "The Streetwalking Lawyers Of Aurora Avenue" gets me every time.
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