Research: The Sketch Show

A group of comedians and comedy actors being Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Jim Tavare, Karen Taylor and Ronni Ancona came together and created a sketch show simply titled 'The Sketch Show'

It can be said that their sketches were exaggerated situations experienced in the lives of the actors themselves as the sketches contained the performers using their real names:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSBOMvj3t_8

Heavy exaggeration and sheer ridiculousness are used to create humour as within the 'Phobia's Workshop' sketch, it is clear that research has been carried out as to what an existing phobia workshop consists of, then the actors have exaggerated certain elements, in this case being the phobias themselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koNwUeG-iKE