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'The (206)' Looks Almost Like 'Almost Live'
The YouTube trailers for 'The (206)' features 'Almost Live' alumni John Keister and Pat Cashman, but there are no details yet on what the trailers preview. The classic local show used to skewer Redmond, Seattle and anything else in the Northwest.
That's how television show "Almost Live" immortalized Redmond and other Eastside suburbs late Saturday nights in the 1980s and 1990s. No local city, including Seattle, was safe from skewering.
The SeattlePI.com has noted that an online teaser trailer of a show looks a lot like that classic KING5 television comedy show, which for a time had been picked up by Comedy Central. Re-runs currently air every week after "Saturday Night Live" on KING5.
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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.
But 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. And it's fun to spot the difference between Bellevue Square and Factoria Mall of old, and what it looks like today.
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