MadTV is cancelled
11-12-08, 04:22 PM
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MadTV is cancelled
From Aint-It-Cool-News:
Fox has finally 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.
Fox has finally 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.
11-12-08, 04:26 PM
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It's kinda sad how far it's fallen from the great early years. The Sasso-McDonald-Kilbane seasons were easily better than SNL during the same time period.
I wonder what Fox is going to replace it with; Talkshow with Spike Feresten is sub-par with very few moments.
I wonder what Fox is going to replace it with; Talkshow with Spike Feresten is sub-par with very few moments.
11-12-08, 05:38 PM
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A few years ago, this was better than SNL, but it's fallen so far so fast that it became unwatchable. A big factor was the switch to the new theatre either last year, or the year before. That was the big jump the shark moment, IMO.
11-12-08, 05:56 PM
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So many Saturdays I found myself thinking this show was so much funnier than SNL and waited till Midnite to flip over to NBC, but MadTV has gone downhill FAST. The show held onto Michael Mcdonald and Bobby Lee way too long.
Fave skits, sketches:
"OJ Simpson: Bloopers, Blunders, and Boners"
Vancome Lady
"Kenny Rogers's Jackass"
Spishak-brand commercials
Debra Wilson's take on Whitney Houston, Beyonce/Destiny's Child, Oprah
"QVC for the plus-size woman"
"Glamazon Huntress AD"
Felicity, Jenny Jones Show, The Sopranos on PAXTV, Cold Case, Medium spoofs
"John Madden's Popcorn Maker"
Anna Nicole Smith w/ FOX's Super Bowl team
"Tickle Me Emo"
11-12-08, 06:16 PM
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Once a great show and like everyone said better than SNL. It's a shadow of its former self now. I only like Keenan and Bobby Lee, of course. Still a surprise it was going to be cancelled.
The skits are perfect for YouTube. Miss Swan was one of my favorites.
The skits are perfect for YouTube. Miss Swan was one of my favorites.
11-12-08, 06:23 PM
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11-12-08, 06:52 PM
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Yeah I'm not shocked by this. There are some talented folks on that show; and I was once one of the biggest supporters of MadTV around here especially when compared to SNL.
But the new format and the breakdown of quality bits killed MadTV.
It was good run MadTv but it's time to let it go.
But the new format and the breakdown of quality bits killed MadTV.
It was good run MadTv but it's time to let it go.
11-12-08, 07:04 PM
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that sucks. i didn't watch faithfully. but i did like the actors and had some good laughs at some sketches, especially anything with Bobby Lee.
11-12-08, 07:49 PM
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I agree, a few seasons ago (the last season filmed before an audience) it was really hitting on all cylinders. It's not the same now that they just show pre-recorded skits.
11-12-08, 08:25 PM
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Good!
Only good part of the run was Kenny Rogers' Jackass.
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Only good part of the run was Kenny Rogers' Jackass.
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11-12-08, 09:08 PM
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11-12-08, 09:44 PM
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I didn't know it was still on to tell you the truth.
11-12-08, 10:58 PM
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Come on, Shelley...
Come on....
Seriously but when this show was in its prime, with Will Sasso, Debra Wilson (*DROOLZ*), Nicole Sullivan, Aries Spears, Alex Borstein, etc., those were better than anything SNL has put up since the late 80s/early 90s.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with prevailing sentiment. Hasn't been good in years -- with a few exceptions, especially this:
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Come on....
Seriously but when this show was in its prime, with Will Sasso, Debra Wilson (*DROOLZ*), Nicole Sullivan, Aries Spears, Alex Borstein, etc., those were better than anything SNL has put up since the late 80s/early 90s.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with prevailing sentiment. Hasn't been good in years -- with a few exceptions, especially this:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y04wkGhaNe4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y04wkGhaNe4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
11-13-08, 12:36 AM
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The whole story ark of Michael McCloud(Will Sasso) and Alex Borstein's character was pretty sweet; there was an intro skit, a Behind the Music skit, and a where are they now skit with Sasso on the street corner playing a casio keyboard.
Snapshot stories with various castmembers was awesome; the one with Aries getting high off of airplane glue and mistaking a castmember was especially awesome. Steven Bochco's L.A. Valet, the Handyman show with the Multitool thing, the music instrument salesmen band skit, and the Java Man skits were very good as well.
I hope the WB site puts up those older episodes up because they were really good, as has been said before and bears repeating.
Snapshot stories with various castmembers was awesome; the one with Aries getting high off of airplane glue and mistaking a castmember was especially awesome. Steven Bochco's L.A. Valet, the Handyman show with the Multitool thing, the music instrument salesmen band skit, and the Java Man skits were very good as well.
I hope the WB site puts up those older episodes up because they were really good, as has been said before and bears repeating.
Last edited by gmanca; 11-13-08 at 12:39 AM.