MADtv

1995

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Released: 14 October 1995 Ended
Producted By: Warner Bros. Television
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.madtv.com/
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MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by Mad magazine. The one-hour show aired Saturday nights on Fox.

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Comedy

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UnowPriceless hyped garbage
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Torrin-McFinn77 I must admit I didn't get into this show until the late 1990s, but when I did I found many of the sketches very funny. Especially the fake commercials and the Bill Clinton impersonations by Will Sasso. This show was really funny while the sex scandal was happening in Washington DC with Clinton and Lewinsky. I used to stay up late on Saturdays watching this and it seemed so funny. But in the 2000s it started going stale. The parodies seemed less funny and more stupid. Sure, there were both stupid and funny sketches during the show's heyday, but it went downhill after a while. I never got to watch Saturday Night Live, but this was the closest I could get to the late night sketch comedy shows. And even though it's probably not on the air anymore (except maybe on Comedy Central on cable), I can watch the sketches on YouTube and they're just as funny as they were in the 1990s. But don't let the fact that the last few seasons of MadTV tanked scare you off; just go on YouTube and watch some funnies. I know I did!
Parker Lewis I wish MADtv is still on our screens. When I first watched it, I couldn't stop laughing at many of the sketches. The Rudolph claymation sketch was hilarious big time. Sure there was satire but I felt the prime purpose of MADtv was to be funny, and it succeeded on many counts. Sure it may not have had the guest stars that SNL attracted, but still, the comedy was really comedy and not hit and miss.I wish a network can reboot MADtv, as it stands tall in the annals of sketch comedy, and stands shoulder to shoulder with SNL. It's a shame there aren't any books written about MADtv as I would love to learn more about the show, the production, etc.
hellraiser7 This is another one of my favorite skit comedies that I think is just a bit under the radar, it doesn't get enough credit that it deserves.I'm a fan of the Mad magazine comics, they were a comedy anthology that always cracked me up as most of the cartoons were always parodies on movies, commericals, sports, video games, you name it just anything to flip upside down and turn into a joke. I think what really made most of the cartoons funny was sometimes there was a bit of truth in some of them, how truly crazy the subcultures we constructed really are when you look at them hard enough, just simply the absurdity of just about any colorful concept, but all the same the magazine was simply made to be plan fun and funny and that's what it and this show does.Just like with the magazine part of what made this skit show really funny was how it really went to extreme lengths and was willing to input it's absurd and sometimes satirical sense of humor to live television and it truly translated well which made it all the more funny.I really like the cast which are all colorful and talented comedians. My favorites are Orlando Jones, Will Sasso, Mike McDonald, though my favorite one was of course Phil Lamarr whom is just fantastic let alone the fact he's one of my favorite voice actors which makes it all the more cool. All of them were just talented in there own way.Sometimes like with SNL this show would have celebrity guest stars but they didn't take up the whole show in fact they weren't in the show that long only in a skit or two. But that was actually a good thing because this show didn't rely on star power but on the talent of their cast and the quality of the skits which was a great thing. And when the guests were in the show they actually looked like they were having a good time as most of the skits they weren't playing some random character but loosely themselves.There are a lot of memorable skits I just name a few that are my favorites: Lowered Expectations: This small skits are great as they show guys and girls that are the last people you never want to date. My favorite one was a running three parter with Phil Lamarr playing Rick whom is such a narcissistic jerk. What made it really funny was just seeing how much it built up to being funnier and funnier as we see Rick getting more impatient, frustrated, just losing his cool by the minute.Spy vs. Spy: These animated shorts were always funny, just like in the magazine it was simply seeing how one spy or the other off each other, you just have to see them yourselves.Kenny Rogers: I'm not the biggest fan of this character but I thought he was really funny in a skit or two. My favorite one are the "Jackass" skits which were just hilarious and at the same time painful to watch. Just like in that show we see him just go though all kinds of stupid stunts, getting hit with baseball bats a lot, or any stupid contest like the Darry Challenge which was disgusting but hilarious at the same time. What made those skits all the more funny was just how much Will Sasso kept in character going through all that physically which is challenging on an acting stand point but it paid off.Steven Segal: This is my favorite impersonation character from the show and from comedian Will Sasso. It's just hilarious as Will just makes Steven Segal into an out of practice martial artist and egocentric jerk. Though it's also kinda ironic considering where Steven's carrier has gone let alone what he physically looks like today, let's face it. Anyway, two of my favorites with him were when he was staring in a "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" rip off and another was when he was in a "Kung Fu" remake and of course David Carodine guest stared and he is just dryly hilarious and of course there is a funny payoff in the end.24 with Bobby Lee: This one is funny, it's a parody on 24 and yet it's not if you get my drift. But what I love about this is just what happens with this guy in most hours of the day as each thing he does and what happens is just so random though never boring; though I can't help but feel there is some truth to this because sometimes that's our own lives as were always doing something different within the hour. My favorite one was with John Chu as he was throwing poppers and lighting firecrackers on a sleeping Bobby Lee.The Greatest Action Film Ever: This is my favorite skit of all, as it's a sequel to the Terminator. Only he is brought to protect Jesus which is just hilarious, as we see the Terminator simply being the Terminator. What makes it funny is just how much unintentional grief T-800 gives Jesus, which makes sense due to the fact that Jesus is prone for non violence, but T-800 isn't.Mad TV is Mad Fun.Rating: 4 stars
talarisw I love snl and no one can beat them as the kings of late night sketch comedy, however mad TV comes close!They did a great job at creating a show that had it's own style and not just a rip off of snl. Unlike snl there's no celebrity guest host(except in season 2) rare musical guest and is only an hour, while snl's an hour and a half. I love snl but let's be honest, there's always only those few sketches that standout, the rest are just OK or fillers. But with mad TV there's no fillers, every sketch is hilarious! That's because the show always focus more on it's cast then snl, mad is able to let lose a lot more. And this show lives up to it's name, mad, because the writers and cast of comedians seem to be out of their minds with stuff they come up with. I love their recurring characters, vancome lady,white momma,Debra,Sturat & his mom, Loraine, Mrs.Swan and ubs guy! The show has nothing really to do with mad magazine, but occailly seeing Alfred E. Newman, spy vs. spy and Don Martins is a nice addition to the show. They had a great cast over the years, Nicole Sullivan, Areis Spears, Bobby Lee, Will Sasso, Mo Collins, Debra Wilson, Micheal Mcdonald Nicole Parker, Phil Lamar Keagan Micheal Keagan and etc. I love the original theme song," You're so crazy, You drive me wild!" "You are now watching Mad TV!". I wish it wasn't canceled but it had a great 14 season run. No doubt a classic series for the Fox network, LONG LIVE MAD TV!