Mad TV cancelled.

[LordJezo]

Well, there it goes. Just got word from the studio that the season is done and it wont be coming back for more. It was expected but now it's real and everyone is out of a job. I haven't watched it since high school so I really can't say if it has been good in the last decade but I guess not being that it's gone.

So long.

[GreatAmericanZero]

Michael McDonald was the least funniest person who ever existed

[IMSlacker]

I've never seen a single episode.

[mikeyboy]

I'm surprised it lasted this long.

[FezsAssistant]

I wish SNL would go away.

[Hottub]

Michael McDonald was the least funniest person who ever existed

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You take that back right now!!

[Death Metal Moe]

This show has almost always completely sucked a bag of cheesy foreskin. Who watched this garbage for this long?

[patsopinion]

good

[Tall_James]

Michael McDonald was the least funniest person who ever existed

WRONG!

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[brettmojo]

Thank freaking god... It was awful from the get go.

[GreatAmericanZero]

WRONG!

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i don't know if i'm in a silly mood or something, but that made me laugh my ass off

[Gmann]

I didnt even know it was still on.

[SatCam]

seriously, this economy is hitting everyone hard

[K.C.]

I'm surprised it lasted this long.

I didn't know it was still on the air. I thought it was canceled like eight years ago.

[Badinia]

I am a little sad, because my friend Matt Braunger joined the cast this season, and it was fun seeing him on the teevee...
But when I got the news he was on it, I thought, "Mad TV is still on?"

[brettmojo]

Hopefully they'll remove it from Comedy Central now and replace it with The Kids In The Hall or the good SNL years.

[BlackSpider]

Hopefully they'll remove it from Comedy Central now and replace it with The Kids In The Hall or the good SNL years.

which years were those?

[brettmojo]

which years were those?
Anything with Myers, Ferrel, Hartman, Sandler, Farley, etc.

[Badinia]

pssst! Talking about how SNL is hack is now hack.

Continue!

[K.C.]

replace it with The Kids In The Hall.

Please god.

[Foster]

this stinks, i heard aj dynamite was really close to getting on that show

[BlackSpider]

Anything with Myers, Ferrel, Hartman, Sandler, Farley, etc.

I didn't think Myers or Sandler were funny on SNL.
(Coffee talk, wayne's world, opera man, cajun man) STINK. Peeee-YU. Awful. Stinktastic. Stink-and-a-half. never laughed once at opera man or cajun man...:thumbdown:

[FezsAssistant]

Hopefully they'll remove it from Comedy Central now and replace it with The Kids In The Hall or the good SNL years.

That would be so great. I love The Kids. Hoopla...Salty Ham...

[epo]

Michael McDonald was in one of the worst bands that ever existed

Agreed.

[FezsAssistant]

pssst! Talking about how SNL is hack is now hack.

Continue!

SNL is sooo hack.

[TheMojoPin]

When people tell me they like the show, I get very confused and have to just walk away.

Fortunately, this has only happened twice in all the years the show has been on.

[GreatAmericanZero]

Hopefully they'll remove it from Comedy Central now and replace it with The Kids In The Hall or the good SNL years.

when they showed KITH and SNL i had comedy central on all the time. Now i just have it on for south park and daily show

Comedy Central seems to constantly show movies that i never want to watch these days

[TheMojoPin]

when they showed KITH and SNL i had comedy central on all the time. Now i just have it on for south park and daily show

Comedy Central seems to constantly show movies that i never want to watch these days

I wish E! would mix up their SNL reruns. Seems like they only show episodes from the last 5 years or so.

[GreatAmericanZero]

When people tell me they like the show, I get very confused and have to just walk away.

Fortunately, this has only happened twice in all the years the show has been on.

this is why MadTV sucked

first of all, all their skits went on too long. Like 3mins too long (which, in tv time is long). They would do a commercial parody that would last minutes. Its horrible...when u watch good skit comedy (like Kids in the Hall or Monty Python), they are willing to have skits that are only 20sec long.

second, the reoccurring characters were shit. Every character was "lets take this annoying person to this location and everyone will be annoyed by them". I just get annoyed instead of laughing at them. Its a mistake alot of new SNL castmembers will do to, their characters they try is just an annoying person and people are annoyed with their inappropriate behavior. i HATE skits like that

third, in addition to the reoccurring characters being horrible, every skit was exactly the same. Just location changed. Like "lets put Miss Swan in a starbucks" "lets put Miss Swan at the petting zoo" but its the same exact shit. week after week

fourth...i dunno, it really wasn't funny

[TheMojoPin]

There was one funny guy on MadTV.

David Herman.

Bless his heart, he tried SO hard.

[SatCam]

this is why MadTV sucked

first of all, all their skits went on too long. Like 3mins too long (which, in tv time is long). They would do a commercial parody that would last minutes. Its horrible...when u watch good skit comedy (like Kids in the Hall or Monty Python), they are willing to have skits that are only 20sec long.

second, the reoccurring characters were shit. Every character was "lets take this annoying person to this location and everyone will be annoyed by them". I just get annoyed instead of laughing at them. Its a mistake alot of new SNL castmembers will do to, their characters they try is just an annoying person and people are annoyed with their inappropriate behavior. i HATE skits like that

third, in addition to the reoccurring characters being horrible, every skit was exactly the same. Just location changed. Like "lets put Miss Swan in a starbucks" "lets put Miss Swan at the petting zoo" but its the same exact shit. week after week

fourth...i dunno, it really wasn't funny

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[TheMojoPin]

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God, she was awful.

Kirtsen Wiig on SNL is like a shitty clone of her, that's somehow even more annoying and unfunny, yet people rave about her. Go figure. Her whole schtick is making weird noises.

[Badinia]

Respectfully disagree, MJP.

Wiig's whole deal is being *pretty* and making weird noises.

[TheMojoPin]

Respectfully disagree, MJP.

Wiig's whole deal is being *pretty* and making weird noises.

Tooooouche.

I was sent links and clips of that "surprise party" sketch on SNL by people saying it was one of the funniest things ever on the show and I was baffled.

[DarkHippie]

Sketch comedy has been dying for the last few years. I have hope for a revival soon.

[TheMojoPin]

Sketch comedy has been dying for the last few years. I have hope for a revival soon.

Human Giant is pretty fucking amazing.

[GreatAmericanZero]

There have been people on MadTV that seemed to be talented enough to be funny with good material, but that show had no material

Will Sasso seemed like he could be really funny. Debra Wilson was a good actress. The material was just such shit

[TheGameHHH]

God, she was awful.

Kirtsen Wiig on SNL is like a shitty clone of her, that's somehow even more annoying and unfunny, yet people rave about her. Go figure. Her whole schtick is making weird noises.

that you for being one of the few rational people i know that thinks she sucks. for some reason she appeals to a lot of people and i dont get it.

[Doctor Z]

Mad TV cancelled

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[GreatAmericanZero]

Sketch comedy has been dying for the last few years. I have hope for a revival soon.

the first season of "Whitest Kids u'Know" was great...then it moved to IFC and the 2nd season was good...nowhere near the first though. I'll stick with it for the 3rd season

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[IamFogHat]

Might be one of the worst shows in television history, and that's saying a lot. For some reason I would sit through like an hour at a time of this dogshit and not only not laugh, but feel douche chills beyond belief. A train wreck not in the fun traditional watchable train wreck we all know and love, just a piece of shit. Good riddance.

[Badinia]

I like Whitest Kids U Know and Human Giant.

Megadittoes, Rush!

[K.C.]

when they showed KITH and SNL i had comedy central on all the time. Now i just have it on for south park and daily show

Comedy Central seems to constantly show movies that i never want to watch these days

Agreed, and I could do another whole thread on how Comedy Central has gone WAY down hill in recent years.

MadTV supplanting SNL reruns was about the time it started. And I don't even know when the hell E! runs SNL, and the few times I've seen it on there, it's newer episodes.

How about mixing in some 90s and 80s. I'd say 70s, too, but Comedy Central never went that far back either.

I have no clue why they ever took KITH off to begin with. I think it disappeared around the same time the DVDs came out (same with The Critic, although, the argument can be made there that you can only show the same 23 episodes so many times).

Daily Show/Colbert and South Park are the only things worth watching on that channel now, besides the occasional standups (caught John Olivier's the other day...that guy is the next Colbert, only British).

[DarkHippie]

Agreed, and I could do another whole thread on how Comedy Central has gone WAY down hill in recent years.

MadTV supplanting SNL reruns was about the time it started. And I don't even know when the hell E! runs SNL, and the few times I've seen it on there, it's newer episodes.

How about mixing in some 90s and 80s. I'd say 70s, too, but Comedy Central never went that far back either.

I have no clue why they ever took KITH off to begin with. I think it disappeared around the same time the DVDs came out (same with The Critic, although, the argument can be made there that you can only show the same 23 episodes so many times).

Daily Show/Colbert and South Park are the only things worth watching on that channel now, besides the occasional standups (caught John Olivier's the other day...that guy is the next Colbert, only British).

John Oliver is fucking amazing. I gotta say that I've been enjoying Chocolate News too.

[furie]

i thought it got canceled like 5 years ago

[IMSlacker]

Daily Show/Colbert and South Park are the only things worth watching on that channel now, besides the occasional standups (caught John Olivier's the other day...that guy is the next Colbert, only British).

Sarah Silverman is pretty good.

[GreatAmericanZero]

Agreed, and I could do another whole thread on how Comedy Central has gone WAY down hill in recent years.

MadTV supplanting SNL reruns was about the time it started. And I don't even know when the hell E! runs SNL, and the few times I've seen it on there, it's newer episodes.

How about mixing in some 90s and 80s. I'd say 70s, too, but Comedy Central never went that far back either.

I have no clue why they ever took KITH off to begin with. I think it disappeared around the same time the DVDs came out (same with The Critic, although, the argument can be made there that you can only show the same 23 episodes so many times).

Daily Show/Colbert and South Park are the only things worth watching on that channel now, besides the occasional standups (caught John Olivier's the other day...that guy is the next Colbert, only British).

"chocolate news" is really really bad too. And they did a skit about "wiggers turning white again" that was done exactly the same way..same format, same jokes and everything..as a skit on the snoop dogg skit show

[GreatAmericanZero]

ok, i was just looking at youtube and i found the skits...

this is just a short segment of the "Chocolate News" piece on wiggers. It goes onto wigger rehabilitation and stuff...you can basically see where it goes

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here is the full skit from the short lived Snoop Dogg skit show. Its pretty much exactly the same:

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[fezident]

Good riddance.
MadTV had a tremendous amount of potential. Their fake commericals were f'ing STRONG. Really well written and with good timing.
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But, the sketches never rose to the challenge. Stuart was funny but, they beat it to death.
Mo Collins had a character that used to go into stores and ask a squillion annoying questions & eventually wear out her welcome. Loved it. But.... they did it about 1000x too many and so the character wore out her welcome.


As for SNL, I honestly can't understand the 30 years of blasting that the show takes. The Sex-Offender-Goes-Trick-Or-Treating sketch was historic. HILARIOUS! And... it aired two weeks ago.
It's always been cool to be too-cool-to-dig-SNL. I get that. But that show delivers the goods. It's a B+.

MR. SHOW is thee best sketch comedy ever made. Period.
HUMAN GIANT is the heir to that throne.
THE WHITEST KIDS has it's moments. The 1st season was dangerous. 2nd season... meh.
KITH are totally creative. I loved that troop. GREAT LIVE SHOW.
UCB made me feel stoned! I still go the UCB theater in Chelsea. A lotta good troops there.


I f'ing LOVE sketch comedy. There's almost always gold in those hills but, MadTV definitely ran it's course.
A "best of" DVD would be worth getting though.

[JerseySean]

Well, there it goes. Just got word from the studio that the season is done and it wont be coming back for more. It was expected but now it's real and everyone is out of a job. I haven't watched it since high school so I really can't say if it has been good in the last decade but I guess not being that it's gone.

So long.

Its about time

[K.C.]

Sarah Silverman is pretty good.

I have to be honest, I'm not a big fan of her.

I know that it's suppose to be the joke and the point of the show, but she plays it just a touch too ridiculously stupid for me.

[TheMojoPin]

MR. SHOW is thee best sketch comedy ever made. Period.
HUMAN GIANT is the heir to that throne.
THE WHITEST KIDS has it's moments. The 1st season was dangerous. 2nd season... meh.
KITH are totally creative. I loved that troop. GREAT LIVE SHOW.
UCB made me feel stoned! I still go the UCB theater in Chelsea. A lotta good troops there.

Don't forget The State.

The Whitest Kids... is odd. The sketches are usually great ideas, but something falls apart in the execution. I keep having the nagging feeling that the people on that show are really good comedy writers, but not really good actors/performers.

[TheMojoPin]

I have to be honest, I'm not a big fan of her.

I know that it's suppose to be the joke and the point of the show, but she plays it just a touch too ridiculously stupid for me.

I keep watching the show for everyone on it except her.

[Badinia]

I keep watching the show for everyone on it except her.

I LOVE Steve Agee and Brian Posehn as the fake gheys.

[TheMojoPin]

As for SNL, I honestly can't understand the 30 years of blasting that the show takes. The Sex-Offender-Goes-Trick-Or-Treating sketch was historic. HILARIOUS! And... it aired two weeks ago.
It's always been cool to be too-cool-to-dig-SNL. I get that. But that show delivers the goods. It's a B+.

It's just too long. Even when the show is good, you're still getting around half an hour of crap. When it's bad, you're getting an hour + of crap. That's a lot to wade through. I agree, that sketch was hilarious, but I think there was about 20 minutes of sketches that weren't cringe-worthy. The show gets into ruts where they want to pound characters or gimmicks into the ground and they get away from true absurdity. SNL seems to work best when they just toss everything out the window and go for the gonzo stuff. Hell, it can even work with the recurring characters.

[GreatAmericanZero]

It's just too long. Even when the show is good, you're still getting around half an hour of crap. When it's bad, you're getting an hour + of crap. That's a lot to wade through. I agree, that sketch was hilarious, but I think there was about 20 minutes of sketches that weren't cringe-worthy. The show gets into ruts where they want to pound characters or gimmicks into the ground and they get away from true absurdity. SNL seems to work best when they just toss everything out the window and go for the gonzo stuff. Hell, it can even work with the recurring characters.

DVR - it completely changes the SNL experience

you fast forward through commercials and lame musical guests...i fast forward through the news...and if a skit is going nowhere you can skip that too. Its a great show on DVR

[Contra]

I watched the first 3 seasons of MadTV pretty religiously. I thought it was fresh compared to the stale shit on SNL. After that though it did wear out pretty fast. Then when Bobby Lee joined the cast I started to watch again, but it didn't really hold my interest. I think I only watched a handful of episodes the next couple of seasons. I haven't seen the show, new or reruns, for probably 3 years. I had no idea it was still on myself. On a side note I was IN LOVE with Mo Collins, then I found out Aries was hitting it, and all I could think was damn, they took another one!

[PapaBear]

I managed to get my son to the age of 18 without him doing drugs, drinking, or doing anything else illegal. But he liked Mad TV. I'm a failure as a father.

[ScrewBadComedy]

the first season of "Whitest Kids u'Know" was great...then it moved to IFC and the 2nd season was good...nowhere near the first though. I'll stick with it for the 3rd season

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And you consider that good comedy? I'd rather have a tire iron shoved up my ass than watch crap like that.

[lleeder]

And you consider that good comedy? I'd rather have a tire iron shoved up my ass than watch crap like that.

Wow this guy has a very specific agenda judging from his name.

[disneyspy]

Wow this guy has a very specific agenda judging from his name.

judgin by your unfunniness on this post im guessin you're lookin for a date

[zildjian361]

i remember Artie Lang ithink its been a long time Snl sucked that bad thats the onlly reason i ever watched

[GreatAmericanZero]

And you consider that good comedy? I'd rather have a tire iron shoved up my ass than watch crap like that.

then don't.

[TheMojoPin]

That sketch was pretty shitty.

YELLING-YELLING-YELLING.