Groundlings’ ‘Love’ a Wealth of Talent

End your weekend with a laugh. The Groundlings’ “Love American Sunday,” the Sunday night show featuring the group’s “farm team,” contains a winning roster of new talent.

Apart from a few lackluster sketches, director Tony Sepulveda keeps the comic momentum at a rattling pace. The writing is particularly strong. In fact, a couple of these characters should send a “Saturday Night Live” talent scout scurrying for his cellular phone.

Chris Parnell gets the action rolling with his spectacularly disruptive baseball fan, whose attention--what with his daughter stealing his beer and his son putting peanuts up his nose--fixes anywhere but on the game.

If you’re injured surfing, call Mark Thomas Miller’s boneheaded surfer-dude lawyer, John H. Bonedaddy. He just might be able to get you a lucrative settlement--say, a six of brew and a package of bandages.

Holly Mandel and Mona Mansour score with “La Musica y Educacion,” a devastating send-up of a Spanish cable show. Steve Ireland’s rapturous Huell Howser wows us with highlights from the tourist mecca of Truckee. And as two Scottish police interrogators whose torture techniques include blowing raspberries on their suspect’s bare tummy, Brian Palermo and Parnell make the needle jump right off the giggle-meter.

* “Love American Sunday,” Groundling Theatre, 7307 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood. Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Indefinitely. $12. (213) 934-9700. Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes.