The Edge (FOX TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = The Edge


caption =
genre = Variety
Comedy
creator = David Mirkin
writer = Julie Brown
Jasper Cole
David Mirkin
Charlie Kaufman
Nancy Neufeld Callaway
director = Peter Baldwin
Steve Klayman
David Mirkin
Rob Schiller
starring = Julie Brown
Tom Kenny
Jennifer Aniston
Wayne Knight
Jill Talley
Carol Rosenthal
James Stephens III
narrated = Edd Hall
theme_music_composer = Steve Hampton
composer = Stephen Graziano
B.C. Smith
Christopher Tyng
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 18
list_episodes =
executive_producer = David Mirkin
co_exec = David J. Latt
producer = Julie Brown
Charlie Singer
asst_producer = Bernice Kenton
co-producer = Tracey Ormandy
runtime = 22 mins.
channel = FOX
first_aired = September 19, 1992
last_aired = April 11, 1993

"The Edge" is an American sketch comedy television series created by David Mirkin which ran on the FOX Network from 1992 to 1993.

ynopsis

The series featured an ensemble cast headed by comedienne Julie Brown. Other cast memebers included Tom Kenny ("SpongeBob SquarePants"), Jennifer Aniston ("Friends"), and Wayne Knight ("Seinfeld" and several animated series). "The Edge" also featured the talents of Carol Rosenthal (formerly of "In Living Color"). Other regulars of the series included James Stephens III, Jill Talley, Rick Overton, Paul Feig, and Alan Ruck.

The show featured sketches that would revolve around original characters such as gun-toting All-American family and a cowboy known as Cracklin' Crotch. But the series would also skewer pop culture. One notable episode spoofed TV sweeps by promising ratings-grabbing events such as a birth, a wedding and a death.

The series also featured a running gag in which the entire cast would get killed off in various ways in each episode before the first commercial break. One episode featured the cast getting hit by a bus; another had the set falling apart and crushing them; others involved explosions, decapitations, immolation, hangings, and impalement by arrows; one episode had the troupe being sucked into a vortex. In addition to sketches, Bill Plympton cartoons were used as bumpers between the sketches.

The series was short lived and was canceled after 18 episodes.

Production notes

Series creator and director David Mirkin, also a writer and producer for "Newhart", "Get a Life", and "The Simpsons", created another series for Brown entitled "The Julie Show".

Music was provided by Steve Hampton (theme song composer), Stephen Graziano, B.C. Smith, and Christopher Tyng among others.

Edd Hall ("The Tonight Show with Jay Leno") provided the show's voiceovers.

External links

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* [http://www.jumptheshark.com/forum/edge/660 "The Edge" at Jump the Shark]