Carolyn Taylor and Paul Thomas discuss the 'power of sketch comedy' now

Sketch comedy has seen a lot of highs and lows over the years but with the recent interest in Saturday Night Live's weekly takes on the Trump administration, sketch is peaking again. 

On today's show, Baroness Von Sketch Show's Carolyn Taylor and the Defiant Thomas Brothers' Paul Thomas — two comedians who are part of sketch groups themselves, and are appearing at this week's Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival — speak to the ever-changing landscape of sketch comedy. 

Of viral sketches like Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer impersonation on SNL, Taylor says: "It was a fantastic piece of drag. It shows the power of sketch and the power of comedy [...] it was wildly inspiring and it just felt like sketch was being used as a tool for good."

Thomas's one note, though: "It's good, just as long as it doesn't get too preachy; you still have to be a comedian first." 

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival runs until March 12. For more information on Taylor and Thomas's events, head over to the festival's website.

— Produced by Elaine Chau