MadTV is cancelled
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#29
DVD Talk Legend
I liked some of their parodies, like Gump Fiction, South Parknuts, House MD, etc. but I never really got into most of their original characters and recurring sketches.
#32
DVD Talk Legend
I never really enjoyed it, even in its early years. I didn' even know it was still on. I just thought they were doing reruns on Comedy Central now.
MadTV had the bad luck of NBC pushing SNL like crack because it was an election year, when SNL has more jokes to throw into the pot. Not to mention that the candidates this year just happened to be easy targets for jokes. And of course SNL's semi-cast member Tina Fey who just happens to look exactly like Sarah Palin (the easiest target of them all this year).
So really, if you like MadTV you can blame the Republican Party for it being cancelled.
MadTV had the bad luck of NBC pushing SNL like crack because it was an election year, when SNL has more jokes to throw into the pot. Not to mention that the candidates this year just happened to be easy targets for jokes. And of course SNL's semi-cast member Tina Fey who just happens to look exactly like Sarah Palin (the easiest target of them all this year).
So really, if you like MadTV you can blame the Republican Party for it being cancelled.
#33
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I never really enjoyed it, even in its early years. I didn' even know it was still on. I just thought they were doing reruns on Comedy Central now.
MadTV had the bad luck of NBC pushing SNL like crack because it was an election year, when SNL has more jokes to throw into the pot. Not to mention that the candidates this year just happened to be easy targets for jokes. And of course SNL's semi-cast member Tina Fey who just happens to look exactly like Sarah Palin (the easiest target of them all this year).
So really, if you like MadTV you can blame the Republican Party for it being cancelled.
MadTV had the bad luck of NBC pushing SNL like crack because it was an election year, when SNL has more jokes to throw into the pot. Not to mention that the candidates this year just happened to be easy targets for jokes. And of course SNL's semi-cast member Tina Fey who just happens to look exactly like Sarah Palin (the easiest target of them all this year).
So really, if you like MadTV you can blame the Republican Party for it being cancelled.
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Love the guy but his McCain is just plain awful.
Still there's the 24 hour parodies which were brilliant with Bobby always fighting to stay in bed, Hot Dog skits, the guy with the decked out Hyundai, the Korean soap opera, the old kung fu expert, etc. Man, if Bobby were on SNL, he would be a sensation by now.
Still there's the 24 hour parodies which were brilliant with Bobby always fighting to stay in bed, Hot Dog skits, the guy with the decked out Hyundai, the Korean soap opera, the old kung fu expert, etc. Man, if Bobby were on SNL, he would be a sensation by now.
#37
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Aside from Bobby Lee the recent offerings from MadTV were pretty weak. They had a hell of a run though, and I am seriously going to miss it.
Two of my favorite golf skits:
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Two of my favorite golf skits:
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#39
DVD Talk Legend
MadTV was gold for awhile.. miles over SNL. It hit a downward slope a couple of years ago, and since Michael McDonald left, it just wasn't the same as it is.