Jesus H. Christ MAD TV is so so so unfunny.

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....I know this has been discussed before, but, god, how is this show still on the air?

― giboyeux (skowly), Saturday, 30 April 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, I'm watching re-runs on Comedy Central right now (my clicker is broken) and fucking *B*U*S*H* is playing.

I am filled with hate. And yet, still watching.

― giboyeux (skowly), Saturday, 30 April 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

People that like the series MAD TV are too braindead to even take seriously

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 30 April 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"black people actually get to be "people" every week on Mad T.V. instead of always having to be "black" people like on SNL....
-- scott seward (skotro...), November 11th, 2004."

that's cause the "comedians" on that show are 99% THESPIANS and not comedians at all. partly the reason it blows, too. the writing might be redeemable if you live in turkey and "Badi" is your favorite movie.

― corey c (shock of daylight), Monday, 2 May 2005 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

So, you are saying that the reason the black actors on Mad T.V. are good at playing people is because they are actors? I don't even know what that means. And I don't know who you are.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 May 2005 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried watching Mad TV about a month ago, because the listings said the cast of Arrested Development was supposed to be on. But I couldn't bear it.

― Huk-L, Monday, 2 May 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

....uh, why is this a race issue? I think the point corey c was making is that the people on MAD TV are not people that one would want to see doing stand-up; they're showboating, scenery-chewing, hammy actors. Not comedians.

True, MAD TV doesn't automatically cast black people as Black People. Great. Doesn't make it any funnier.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

MAD TV automatically cast unfunny people, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

zing!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, not once, found anything even remotely entertaining while watching this show. The only disrespect I have left for my father in this point, if it exists, is rooted in the fact that I've heard him laughing at this show. However, I have learned to look past this TV transgression, considering I've never heard him get a Final Jeopardy question wrong.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"I think the point corey c was making is that the people on MAD TV are not people that one would want to see doing stand-up; they're showboating, scenery-chewing, hammy actors. Not comedians."

they aren't doing stand-up. they are doing broad physical comedy that is very exaggerated and cartoon-like. and showboating, scenery-chewing, hammy actors are PERFECT for it. duh. and the black/white thing was taken off of the other thread and it was in relation to SNL. I don't think I know who you are either.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

nickalicious OTM
tried watching it sober, drunk, high, happy, sad....completely giggle-proof, so much so it makes me angry. I don't know anybody so you can skip all that shit

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

but i recognize your name, tremendoid, and i wasn't sure if those other people were just using fake names to bug me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I yam what I yam, scott. I've been around for a little while...lurk more than post.

Although, I'm not sure what knowing me has to do with it....? Or did you just think corey c and I were fakerz trying to rile yo uP

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
s'what happens when you fight the good fight

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Word.

And you know, while we're at it: can we talk about how much worse Blue Collar TV is? They're both just so.......corny. Corny theZpian fuxx!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"I think the point corey c was making is that the people on MAD TV are not people that one would want to see doing stand-up; they're showboating, scenery-chewing, hammy actors. Not comedians."
they aren't doing stand-up. they are doing broad physical comedy that is very exaggerated and cartoon-like. and showboating, scenery-chewing, hammy actors are PERFECT for it. duh. and the black/white thing was taken off of the other thread and it was in relation to SNL. I don't think I know who you are either.

-- scott seward (skotro...), May 2nd, 2005

Uh... there's a diff. between acting and comedy acting. As far as I've seen the actors on MadTV lack even basic comic timing.

If you think being hammy is funny, than I'm kind of jealous because you don't even need to seek out comedy programs, you can just leave whoopy cushions throughout your house and turn on some Wiggles tapes and you'll be fuckin' set.

Actually I'd be set with a night like that.

― Ampersands, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate the Wiggles. They scare me. Talk about bad comic timing. But, yeah, I enjoy Mad T.V. on an infantile level. It only really has one level, which I like. Most grown-ups would rather have their silly be multi-level a la simpsons. which is fine. But Mad has a certain purity. It is for young people and it is poopy and dumb and filthy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen like five skits and two of them made me laugh. Both involved fat dudes talking funny. One was about Randy Newman!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Both involved fat dudes talking funny.

Isn't that sort of like cheating, though?

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

you'd think, but then Chris Farley + Adam Sandler = hell and this wasn't hell.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

bu-but Sandler wasn't fat!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

hence the addition of Farley, who was.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I've ever laughed at this show. There aren't really any jokes, just the broadest and most obvious caricatures. nothing unexpected or even genuinely shocking ever happens. also, is it shot before a live audience? For some reason I've never thought it was, but it would seem so weird to have actors come in and do these really shitty sketches, and then have a laugh track overdubbed - that's just the bizarre-est scenario, acting-wise...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 2 May 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it's live all right. How do I know this? Clicker's broken and stuck on Comedy Central. Also I am lazy. Did you know that Comedy Central is 75% MAD TV? No? Well now you do.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Does the cast ever refer to themselves as The Usual Gang of Idiots?
I hope not, cuz that would be blasphemy.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

MAD TV?
More like BAD TV!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

ZING!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I've been waiting in the wings, but I'm siding with Scott on this. The fat guy miccio is referring to is Will Sasso (although there is a new second fat guy who is sometimes funny, but I can't remember his name). Other good Will Sasso skits:

1) Elvis can't remember his band members' names when he introduces them, tries to get himself to concentrate by doing karate punches backstage, tries cue cards with mixed success.

2) Steven Segal stops petty pilfering in restaurants, tells old lady to "put the Sweet-N-Low back."

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I have an aunt who teaches high school gym in a small town who gets really drunk and acts out Mad TV bits.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I've never watched regularly, but they once did a brilliant "Terminator" film where Ahnuld kept saving an irate Jesus Christ from the Romans. "I TOLD YOU...!"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Will Sasso = VERY FUNNY (cf. Kenny Rogers' Jackass, Steven Seagal, Capt. Kirk, etc)! David Herman (Michael Bolton from Office Space) = VERY FUNNY! Artie Lange = SPORADICALLY FUNNY! The one-season guy what did a GREAT Ahnuld & some office PIZZA PARTY skit = RIDICULOUSLY FUNNY! The rest = OH GOD NO! The current cast has been godawful the few times I've seen them.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

What was the deal with that asian lady thing?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Will Sasso also did a good Bill Clinton thing, talking about "Presidential pizzazz."

For me, there was a sort of classic cast, when Phil Lamarr ("The Funky Walker, Dirty Talker") was still on there. SNL was at its pre-Tina Fey lowpoint, so if I was home on Saturday, I ended up watching Mad TV and eventually got past the initial resistance associated with being repelled by the cheap look of the thing.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

"What was the deal with that asian lady thing?"

She look like-a man.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

The thing I've noticed about Mad TV is that they let all their gags die. SNL typically lets their sketchs go on too long, but Mad TV is even worse at this.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

The claymation parodies are funnier than Smigel's "TV Funhouse". That's about it.

I mean, they're even worse than SNL when it comes to introducing reoccurring characters and BEATING THEM OVER YOUR HEAD OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. The Asian lady, the older southern "Oh, Dear" lady, that fucking awful Michael MacDonald manchild thing, whatever the fuck it is.

And the way the studio audience just SQUEALS whenever one of these sorry shits walk out onstage ... so so so unfunny.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget Sasso as Randy Newman composing Star Wars theme music and talking to himself the whole time! FITS.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I bet the studio audience is composed entirely of the cast's current or former roommates.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

funnier than Smigel's "TV Funhouse"

iron ingots are funnier than Smigel's TV Funhouse.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I think I liked TV Funhouse but fuck if I can remember anything from it

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

There are only two things of Smigel's I find funny and they both involve Conan- one being the eyes and lips of the famous talking heads and the other being the "Lookwell" pilot.

Don't forget Sasso as Randy Newman composing Star Wars theme music
Didn't he also do George Lucas one time?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Is Smigel Triumph, as well?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, that's funny sometimes. Three things.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I have a suspicion that the people who like Mad TV also enjoyed I Fucked Ann Coulter in the Ass, Hard.

AM I RITE OR AM I RITE?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Wrong.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I have an aunt who teaches high school gym in a small town who gets really drunk and acts out Mad TV bits.

Now THAT would be a good skit. It'd be meta and everything!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Smigel's actual "TV Funhouse" show was very very funny. I mean, a puppet cat giving birth to actual kittens = wtf? hilarity. I think it was cancelled after a season, but all the animals (including Triumph) were great.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Smigel's actual "TV Funhouse" show was very very funny.

Abso-goddam-lutely. TV Funhouse--like FDR's fireside chats--brought together everyone in my dorm room (all six of us!) for a half-hour of deep stonerism (ie - liberal use of the Death Star, our six-person hookah bong made from a 5 L water cooler jug).

The good ol' days.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

"I have a suspicion that the people who like Mad TV also enjoyed I Fucked Ann Coulter in the Ass, Hard."

Yeah, really wrong. I have a suspicion that the people who hate Mad T.V. don't find many things funny. Either that, or they are big Family Guy & Futurama fans.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

hmm, well I like Futurama all right (tho I put that down to my undying personal affection for Matt Groening and his sense of humor), Family Guy I don't care about. The thing I don't like about Mad TV is that there aren't any jokes, only exaggerations, endless (and pointless) media cannibalization, etc.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

The first part of the Celebrity American Idol thing I just watched was pretty funny.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Care about Family Guy, ASAP.

― Return yourself to the store, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

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