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The Edge

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Created byDavid Mirkin
StarringJulie Brown
Tom Kenny
Jennifer Aniston
Wayne Knight
Jill Talley
Carol Rosenthal
James Stephens III
Country of origin United States
Language(s)English
Production
Executive producer(s)David Latt
Buddy Sheffield
Producer(s)Charlie Singer
Julie Brown
Running time30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channelFOX
Original runSeptember 19, 1992 – April 11, 1993
External links
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TV.com summary


The Edge is an American sketch comedy television series created by David Mirkin which ran on the FOX Network from 1992 to 1993. David Mirkin, a writer and producer for Newhart, Get a Life and The Simpsons, also created another series for Julie Brown entitled The Julie Show. Bill Plympton cartoons were used as bumpers between the sketches. Music was provided by Steve Hampton (theme song composer), Stephen Graziano, B.C. Smith, and Christopher Tyng, among others.

The series 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.

The show would feature 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 was known for being a vehicle for actress/comedienne Julie Brown. It also is notable for launching the careers of 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). Edd Hall (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) provided the show's voiceovers.

Other regulars of the series included James Stephens III, Jill Talley, Rick Overton, Paul Feig, and Alan Ruck.

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David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer. He is a native of Philadelphia and an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University.
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Julie Ann Brown (born August 31, 1954) is an American actor, stand-up comic, comedic singer-songwriter and screenwriter. Brown is perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, where she often played a quintessential valley girl character.
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Birth name Thomas James Kenny
Alias Thomas J. Kenny
Born July 13 1962 (1962--) (age 45)
East Syracuse, New York
Occupation(s) Actor, Voice Actor

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Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston in 2005
Birth name Jennifer Aniston
Born January 11 1969 (1969--) (age 38)
Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
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Wayne Knight

Wayne Knight as Newman in the T.V series Seinfeld

Born July 7 1955 (1955--) (age 52)
Cartersville, Georgia

Wayne Knight
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Jill Talley (born December 19, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is a comedic actress, most well-known as a major cast member of Mr. Show during its four seasons on HBO. She is the wife of voice actor Tom Kenny, who also appeared regularly in the series.
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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Julie Ann Brown (born August 31, 1954) is an American actor, stand-up comic, comedic singer-songwriter and screenwriter. Brown is perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, where she often played a quintessential valley girl character.
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Fox Broadcasting Company

Type Broadcast television network
Availability    National; also distributed in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and certain other Latin American countries.
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September 19 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes, or 'sketches', commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comedic actors, either on stage or through an audio or/and visual medium such as broadcasting.
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David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer. He is a native of Philadelphia and an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University.
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Fox Broadcasting Company

Type Broadcast television network
Availability    National; also distributed in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and certain other Latin American countries.
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Newhart is a television situation comedy starring comedian Bob Newhart that aired on the CBS network from 1982 to 1990.

Premise

Bob Newhart plays Dick Loudon, an author of do-it-yourself books.
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Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990 to March 8, 1992. The show starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson.
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The Simpsons is an animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a soft-satirical parody of the "Middle American" lifestyle epitomized by its title family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.
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Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face.

Biography

Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon to Don and Wilda Plympton.
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Christopher Tyng is an American composer. He composed the music for several television series including Futurama, The O.C., The Job and Rescue Me.
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Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical fourth wall.
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Julie Ann Brown (born August 31, 1954) is an American actor, stand-up comic, comedic singer-songwriter and screenwriter. Brown is perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, where she often played a quintessential valley girl character.
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