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Glork!! Fox Flushes MAD TV!!
I am – Hercules!!
Quincy Jones is finally done shitting on the name of a great American periodical.
Fox has decided to send “Mad TV” the way of “Fridays” and “In Living Color,” canceling the show with the end of its 14th season.
Cancellation comes as late-night rival “Saturday Night Live” is pulling its best ratings in 14 years. Additionally, four recent primetime editions of “SNL” have emerged as NBC’s top-rated scripted dayparts the weeks they aired.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Woohoo!
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I mean, Who F-ing Cares.
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the only good thing about SNL lately has been the sporadic appearances of Fey and Pohler...both of whom are gone. When they're not involved the skits suck like a vacuum. Someone needs to take a gun to this show and put it out of its misery or give it an overhaul.... --G
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Getting back on topic...completely agree....I thought Mad TV went the way of the Dodo years ago....
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It was racist, sexist, offensive shit
Bobby Lee was a funny cunt though -
After Nicole Sullivan left, there was no good reason to watch it anymore.
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There was a time(2 years ago) when MAD was better than SNL. I quit watching SNL because the writing was horrible. I never went out of my way to watch MAD but when I did I laughed.
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You posted twice.
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Should've happened fourteen years ago.
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Nicole Sullivan, Phil LaMarr, Dave Herman, Orlando Jones, Debra Wilson and some others whose names I accidently can't remember. Not because they were bad, but because I haven't seen them for a while.
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...never speaks highly of a show. Mad TV was the white man's response to In Living Color, and somehow found humor in the white trash of this nation. It was unintelligent and overbearing in its comedy. And I know some would make the argument it WAS smart and though it definitely was on some levels, they overdid everything to the point of annoying monotony.
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Before every SINGLE sketch was centered around a tired, one-note character that got an enthusiastic WOOO HOOOOO every time they got on stage... let's see... Stewie, his mother, Dot, Kappa Kappa Kappa, Rusty, Kenny Rogers... ugh. Sadly it actually was funny once. Then all the cast became to go to people for such comic masterpieces as Date Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie.
I say it was bound to happen. Not like anyone on here is upset :-D -
they've done some really funny stuff over the years
And some bat shit crazy stuff
My interest in the show waned as more and more of the classic cast moved on -
I guess that the show's cast will only have new Selter/Friedberg "spoof" movies to fall back on now...
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Both still hilarious.
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holy shit I thought that show was long time cancelled. I'll be damned. Comedy Central should pick them up and give them a friday night spot, since they show them 20 times daily anyway.
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Man, I've always hated MadTV. When it debuted back in 1995 or so, I was a freshman in high school. I was so excited that Mad Magazine was going to have a show and I imagined the weird world of Wlliam Gaines, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragones, Don Martin, Dave Berg, etc, coming to life. I thought it was going to be the best show on television....and it wasn't. All we got were some lame Spy vs. Spy shorts. I know there are a lot of fans of the show out there, but it did no justice to the Mad Magazine tradition. Man, I totally love Mad Magazine...
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Nov 12, 2008 4:41:27 PM CST
And why did you just change it from "Dumps" to "Flushes"?
by adrianveidt
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Seriously, Herc?
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amidst the utter shit that filled the rest of the show
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Artie Lange's Too Fat To Fish. Just to read about his doing coke in his car while made up as a pig for a Baywatch sketch....good times, good times.
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I was always curious as to what demographic watched this show. Most younger people aren't watching TV on Saturday nights, and if they were i can;t imagine them watching this somewhat lame sketch show. It was on so long though I assume someone was watching.
Those Spy vs Spy toons were awesome. -
I mean, even at SNL's worst, it was funnier than MadTV. I mean, it's one thing to write jokes as if you're sure some people are stupid, it's another thing entirely to right them as if they are all stupid.
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That show actually has had some good laughs.."Comedy For Stoners", him harassing folk as a "Fox News" reporter...
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The edited-for-TV Sopranos (Will Sasso was a ringer for Gandolfini), Apocalypse Rudolph, their blaxplotation spoofs...umm, thats about it.
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Nov 12, 2008 4:54:53 PM CST
Great periodical? When was the last time Mad Mag was funny/relev
by tallboy66
"Why don't we call it 'Everybody Hates Raymond'?" "Well, we stayed up all night, but it was worth it!" Seriously, though, those first 2 seasons of Mad TV had some amazingly awesome movie parodies like Gump Fiction and Terminator 3: The Greatest Story Ever Told. Sure, that was 14 years ago, but funny is funny and it's still on youtube. Ain't gonna miss it now.
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And the Son of Davey. But, aside from the Sopranos bit, that was again early seasons- way early.
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That was funny and I thought Will Sasso as Steven Seagal was funny.
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Wooo!!!
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy!
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I thought it was good in the 90s.
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how damned sad it took them this long to kill that shit.
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seriously, he's the only funny cast member and my only complaint about the show being cancelled is that i won't get to catch him anymore..SNL should hire him to fill the asin comedian quota on SNL as well as because he's funnier then alot of the male cast members on that show now anyways
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Forget Saturday night tv. Whatever happened to TGIF on ABC? I use to love that stuff. Though I'd get depressed after Sabrina would be over, and I'd still be in my apartment on a Friday night. Then I'd go out and deal with some real teenage witches.
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Nov 12, 2008 5:20:32 PM CST
Do I still get to see them play Guitar Hero this week?
by flim springfield
Just kidding, I won't be watching.
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What a crappy show based on a really great magazine! It had hardly anything in common with the book! The humor wasn't even the same!
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Oh well, at least its finally been put out of its - and our - misery.
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This show has been fucking shit since about, oh, 1996 or 97. It figures that Nicole Sullivan got her own show and now this one shits the bed. She was the only halfway funny thing on the show anyway.
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and Debra Wilson was great too, she's funny enough to be making movies. But Sasso as Steven Seagal and Kenny Rogers' Jackass are classic, as is the Terminator Jesus bit someone else mentioned. "Stop killing Judas!" But MadTV must have been real cheap to produce to last so many years, considering how Fox keeps cancelling great primetime shows after barely a dozen episodes.
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As the election hoopla fades, so will the ratings. Not to be a . . . what do the kids call it, a "hater", but there's no resurgence in quality, only the Fey-Palin bounce.
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That was only good recent sketch that I can remember.
The show probably should've been axed after Sasso left. -
HUZZAH!!!
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The Rankin Bass Rudolph parodies like Raging Rudolph were great. I also liked the Terminator/Jesus skit. "GET DOWHN!!!!" *shoots the Roman legionaries*
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.....was the fact that they would tape the show weeks in advance, making topical humor more difficult and forcing them to rely on creating characters in a time when the market wants more topical material. Also, the current cast doesn't do much for me.
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But the Coach Hines sketches made me laugh hard. Also, there was this other one where there's the shark scientist and they play footage from Jaws: The Video Game that I thought was masterful (OMG Those Poor People!). Anyone see that?
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Finally! Death to bad comedy!
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Other than that soon-to-be-tits-up unfunny fat ass on Stern, has anyone made a career from this show?
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well i never really watched a full hour, but it did kill the time between 11 and 11:30.
And WTF am i going to do without Bobby lee's naked ass running across my screen once a week? -
agreed with the others here about Will Sasso, he is the best thing that Mad TV gave birth to, say waht you will how shitty mad tv is, any skit with him in it was guaranteed to be gold. He shits over snl's impersonations go-to bland as fuck darrel hammond. There needs to seriously be a dvd out with only Will Sasso's skits. Here's some of the impressions he did copied from wiki: Alan Hale Jr.
Alfred E. Neuman
Anthony Hopkins
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Art Linkletter
Bert Lahr
Bill Clinton
Billy Talent
Bruce Vilanch
Bruce Willis
Carroll O'Connor
Chris Farley
David Crosby
Dennis Franz
Drew Carey
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Fred Durst
George Lucas
George W. Bush
Hal Smith
Henry Winkler
James Gandolfini
James Lipton
Jerry Falwell
Jesse Ventura
John Spencer
Kenny Rogers
Lance Bass
Larry Flynt
Liza Minnelli
Louie Anderson
Luciano Pavarotti
Mark McGrath
Marlon Brando
Michael Caine
Michael Skupin
Mike Ditka
Pat Summerall
Paul Shaffer
Randy Newman
Richard Deacon
Richard Simmons
Robert De Niro
Sammo Hung
Steven Seagal
Scott Stapp
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Tom Ridge
Wayne Newton
William Frawley
William Regal
William Shatner
Zac Hanson
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This is the best news since Obama was elected. Finally, this country is turning things around. A sane president here ... a cancellation of Mad TV there ... and bingo! I don't have to move to Costa Rica anymore!
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The show was good at one time. I agree it has sucked for the past 4 or 5 years, though.
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Didn't The Cure play on there?
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can be found at LMPcomedy.com
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TINA FEY is pulling SNL'S best ratings in 14 years.
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They cancel "The Ben Stiller Show" after 13 episodes, let Mad TV run for fourteen years. In those fourteen years, I laughed once. Once. "The Sopranos on PAX" amused me. That's it. Awful, awful show.
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and that Drunken President who trades Aerosmith for Saskatchewan sketch. Artie Lange MUST have been on coke to have pronounced Saskatchewan correctly.
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One or two, I would imagine, no?
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Who can forget his John Madden popcorn popper skit? That was hilarious. Not to mention, his Robin Williams and George Bush were spot on. He was their last hope though.
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As was Kenny Roger's Punk'd.
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David Herman rules - see his early MadTV output (as the drunk president, I gotta see that bit, it be youtubed?), his various Futurama voices, and Office Space ("PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?")
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Mad TV - The Complete First Season on DVD. I'll add this and The Best of Will Sasso (should they release it) to my collection.
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Since Obama won. They won't dare lampoon the Messiah!
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It should have happened long ago.
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and replace it with sports night/mr.show/golden snl years or any of the other much better stuff they used to syndicate.
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Nicole Sullivan, Debra Wilson and Phil LaMarr have all gotten their recognition, but
Dave Herman, Bryan Callen, and Orlando Jones have never gotten the props they deserve. They rocked.
I still laugh from the sketch where Orlando Jones goes to see a sex therapist with his wife and we find out he and his wife don't know what sex is. No one else in the world could have pulled that off. -
She's been a straight butterface since 1995, which is when I was a junior in high school(shit this show is long in the tooth), but she was one of the reasons I watched, because she was one of the few seriously funny females.
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now that palin is back in the great white north, and they have yet to find anyone who can do a passable obama
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Yes, HBO or Showtime is the best option, that way they can get very adult in terms of material, including introducing vulgar language, sex scenes and nudity. This would be ort of SCTV or Saturday Night Live gone adult entertainment. PS--Add in a little Def Comedy Jam stand-up like segment to the proceedings, and you'll have a big cable hit here!!!
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The show declined rapidly after Nicole left. And it was never as good as it's first few years anyway.
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then again SNL has been awful for years too
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And it was STILL FUNNIER than SNL most times. Especially the horrid sissy pansy 2005-2006 season one up 'til their fucking Hillary bullshit. Guess the Tina Fey / Palin brought the last nail on their coffin, huh ? Or was it the 44th President-Elect of the United States ?
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It was always a shock when she'd pop up on Mad TV.
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Bobby Lee epitomizes everything that's ever been wrong with the show. Seems like that kid in class whose jokes everyone laughed at even though they were never that funny and he wouldn't shut the fuck up so I broke his nose laugh now fucker. Whoops. What's Sasso doing now? Some lame sitcom?
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SNL for the most part sucks too, but I can tell you it generated way more laughs for me than this stupid show.
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It was only funnier vs the SNL 2005 + season. Which says a hell damn lot about the quality in those post-Will Ferrell times.... Mad TV was indeed racist, stupid and conceited filth. Bobby Lee was practically the new ministrel act, yet he doesn't seem to know it more than Rob Schneider . That Korean person was a vapid, unintelligible, Repug window-dressing of hate. And, I recall again how I got my eyes blurring red over that Nicole Sullivan bitch and her randomly vicious ' I'd rather hump your oil wells 'dig on some stand-in Arab; which wasn't worth shit. So, good riddance and FUCK THEM. Maybe Mr. Bobby Lee would now actually try learning comedy beyond stuff that puts food on the table in his Bush society. And knocks it out of the park with the Joe The Plumber/ Sarah Palin crowd.
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Nov 13, 2008 8:11:48 AM CST
this is just like fox, getting the fans hooked and then cancelli
by punto
after only 14 years! those fuckers got me again!
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I could care less about Mad TV, because I as not aware it was still TV. However, I have not heard from Artie Lange since Howard Stern was taken off free radio. He was always a big guy, but Jesus Christ (yes?) it looks like his weight has exploded. I am putting him on my dead pool, and recommending he get lap band surgery. He may not survive gastric bypass surgery.
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The original skits were alright and in many cases better than SNL (not that there's a high bar there), but all of the recurring characters like Stewie and the UPS guy were unwatchable. It's not that they wore out there welcome, it's that they were never funny. Just like Letterman, they'd get cheers, instead of laughs. As for SNL, Phil Hartman was the only good thing about that show for the last 20 years.
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I thought this show got cancelled about 5 years back. I remember one skit called XXX-Files which was freaking hilarious, but probably only to X-Files fans with a sense of humor. Other than that, it sucked. Just like SNL sans Fey/Palin. How did anyone watch that crap before the election gave them material?
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I liked it. I usually record both this and SNL. I usually have to scan through both to find the good stuff, but there were funny bits on Mad TV.
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Nov 13, 2008 11:33:01 AM CST
late 90s MAD TV was SO MUCH BETTER than SNL at the same time
by jimcurry
no comparison really...
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Bring Too Fat to Fish on yo!!!
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He's really not that funny. He's almost OD'd twice while with Howard, has attacked two co-workers, and still keeps his job which has undeservedly turned him into an A-List comedian, which he would not be if Howard Stern didn't love him for some unknown reason. He's OK as a comedian (I've seen tape of his stand-up) but he certainly would not be a headliner of the large venues he sells out if not for his connection with Stern. He owes his entire carreer to Jackie Martling and Norm McDonald. If Jackie never quit the show, Arite would be driving cabs in New York. His level of fame and earning power just don't match his level of material. And, judging by his looks, it's unbelievable he's still alive. And anyone that listens to the Stern show can here what a disgusting guy he is and how disrepectful he is towards women. It's also embarrassingly creepy to hear and see him grovel over the naked women they convince to get on the "Sybian" and think about what a sweaty, gross pig he is drooling over these girls yound enough to be his daughter. Whenever Stern has on strippers or porn-stars, he's unlistenable. How old will he get (he's now in his mid-fifties) before he stops being a pervert and having girls younger than his daughters in the studio naked and tickling them? It's just really creepy for that studio filled with old and ugly men fooling around with 20 year-old naked girls all the time. And he wonders why he's not taken seriously...
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GREAT news, the show that hasn't been funny for like 8 years is finally going away, the bad news. more FrankTV and more free time for them to star in Friedberg / Seltzer abortions
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Seriously Orcus had'nt watched it in about 10 years. So is Cracked' TV coming soon?
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What's new? Still laying low I see...
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Always thought that he was really funny. Wish he worked more. Other than than, Mad TV was horrible.
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Nov 13, 2008 3:53:14 PM CST
Of all the guys over the years I saw on MadTV, I think
by coughlins laws
Will Sasso was the best. I'm surprised that he hasn't parlayed his stint their into some kind of carreer. He should have wound up the fat neighbor or quirky friend somewhere. Michael McDonald was pretty good, too. He and Bobbi Long have been the only bright spots on that show for the last 5 years...
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was the funniest shit ever. Also Phil Lamarr's "Little hassan taylor" is seriously underappreciated.
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I agree with you 100% about David Herman, he was the main reason I kept watching it, his "drunken president" sketch was one of the funniest in memory, I really wish he would do more live action work and not just King Of The Hill.
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does increadible arnold and seagal impressions. that right there is some of the funniest shit i have ever seen.
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Yep, Orcus is lying low. Been spending too much time on Facebook playing Mob Wars, Gangster Battles, Knighted and such. Orcus pops in once in a while to see if folks are pissing in his archives and to give them the fucking boot. Orcus is not dead...not yet :)
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