Like The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery has never been much on making people laugh, but it invariably happens. In particular, the numerous short comedy sketches (with a horror or macabre element) shown in between the main segments are used to take the edge off.
- One sketch, "Quoth the Raven", concerns Edgar Allen Poe penning his poem The Raven... revealing that an actual talking raven (voiced by Mel Blanc) serves as his co-writer, rebuking him when he struggles with the opening line.Rod Serling: From the pen of Edgar Allan Poe... eh, more or less, "Quoth the Raven".
- "Hell's Bells" concerns Randy Miller, a hippie who dies in a firey car crash and winds up in Hell, where he's given the most soul-crushingly boring afterlife possible.
- Another blackout sketch, "The Merciful", sees an elderly woman appearing to seal her husband behind a walled-off room in their basement. When the final brick is laid, the doorbell rings and the man hoes upstairs to answer it, revealing that the wife was actually walling herself up to give her husband a break from her.
- Two split-second sketches, "An Act of Chivalry" and "Room for One Less", both concern a bunch of people in an elevator who are visited by an otherworldly being.
- In the former sketch, the men in the car remove their hats in the presence of a beautiful woman. Death steps into the elevator soon after, and when he's told to remove his hat for the lady, he removes his entire head along with it.
- In the latter sketch, the elevator features a prominently-posted occupancy-limit sign. A towering demon suddenly appears in the car, prompting the operator to scold him for violating the limit and draw his attention to the sign. The demon obligingly solves the problem by blipping the operator out of existence.
