
Happy Happy Good Show

Happy Happy Good Show was an improvisational comedy revue held at the Victory Gardens Studio Theater in Chicago during the summer of 1988. The cast and writers were largely made up of writers on strike from "Saturday Night Live" after the 1987–1988 season. The show is most notable for showcasing the performance talents of Bob Odenkirk, Robert Smigel, and Conan O'Brien, as the three had previously only showcased their writing talents. The revue was directed by Mark Nutter.
Video clips of "Happy Happy Good Show" were shown on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in 2006, when the program was taped for a week in Chicago.
Reviews.
A review of the show in the "Chicago Tribune" was fairly negative, stating that "most of the skits in this show fall flat, underdeveloped and incomplete, little more, really, than blueprint works-in-progress."
Notable sketches.
Several of the sketches are clear progenitors of sketches in other media worked on by the writers.