MADTV - Best Sketch Comedy

In Living Color

Mad TV

other shit

Saturday Night Live

The Abercrombie guys.

And I agree with your assessment, OP: Mad TV was superior to Saturday Night Live in every way.

Yvonne Criddle. "That man took my parking spot"

If The Sopranos had aired on Pax TV.

Anna Nicole is one of them, of course.

Stewart was my favorite

Feuding Parents with Mo Collins and Ike Barinholtz

How did Debra Wilson not become a superstar? Her Whitney was the gold standard.

Just about any skit with Debra Wilson.

Lorraine matress shopping

macaroni salad

Porn Star Registration

Spishack easy bake oven.

killer mannequin

The early years were the best, period. It really lost the plot after a while.

This was so close to the real thing....flawless

I watched this with a guy friend and got so hard during this skit.....

The entire cast, esp. Debra Wilson, was memorable, real talents. It had a 14-year run (1995-2009), which isn't bad.

Fuuuuck MadTV demolished SNL on every level. The parodies were far superior (SNL’s strength), and the original content and characters were far superior. MadTV shits on SNL. Now, In Living Color also shit on SNL. SNL was never as biting as either of them. It saddens me that SNL, the only remaining one, can’t come close to even their own heyday much less MadTV or In Living Color. Not one sketch from current SNL comes close to any of these posted.

Kenny Rogers

I’d have to find it but when the high school girl quotes dictators during her valedictory speech: “in the words of Benito Mussolini…”

And so forth.

Stephanie Weir does Babawawa

Kanny and Pappy

Dixie Wetsworth and her pool boy

Loved Alex Borstein!

Bon Qui Qui working at King Burger

The cat is at home watching the show.

Beyoncé.

Vancome lady does Halloween

How many of you jacked off to this..

embarassing parents

Remember Stephanie during the pandemic?

Damn. I forgot how Madonna started latching on to all the teen pop stars to stay relevant.

It got stale in the later seasons but there were some gems, like Michael McDonald dressed Fu Manchu style.

I don't know how to post it, but there was one they did called Cassio Guy, or maybe I just called it that. Will Sasso was playing his Cassio along to 2 guys fighting. I remember cracking up at that. I haven't seen it in years.

There's no way most of the stuff they did could get on the air today. Meet Bambi

Dixie W.

I loved Will Sasso. I wish he had a bigger career. He was hysterical on Mad TV.

This made my jaw drop in the late 90s when I first saw it. Hilarious but shocking. Watching now with all we know about Britney it's really fascinating. Mad TV always through right through everything and could nail the reality

The perils of abstinence-only sex education

What happened to humor, improv, standup? Now it's just Under-45s trying to be cool. They're not funny.

Nicole Sullivan gave some great performances

“You are not a scientist. From the future. As I am!”

Gangsta Shop Quartet

Mad TV was way funnier than SNL. Dirtier, less PC, etc. And the writing was generally better.

The Abercrombie skits are classic.

Miss Swan... classic. Would see huge backlash on social media today, but she had so many good ones, including a trip to a Monkey in the Bush bar. And then, not only did they give her a multi-part secret agent plot at one point, but Susan Sarandon played Swan!

Vancombe Lady... always funny. Would also see backlash today despite the fact that she's clearly not someone we are supposed to like. You can't even portray racist cunts as racist cunts these days. Oh well.

The Fesserlippenchip-Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff Foundation.

Which one of you bitches wrote this one?

r30 meet r17

[quote]I loved Will Sasso. I wish he had a bigger career. He was hysterical on Mad TV.

He's a regular on a network sitcom. That's a decent career.

Darlene McBride - she was MAGA before MAGA was cool

My favorite!!!

Straight football guys go GAY!

R51 Yes, we know.

We knew at R17, and R30, and again at R48.

One of my favorites that I can still find. I don’t know what they took to become so unhinged, but they nailed it.

[quote] “tchotchkes! The Jewish word for CRAP!”

Posting a link repeatedly clearly spoils 52's day. Hitting a link for nothing are 2 seconds he'll never get back.

[quote]Posting a link repeatedly is retarded.

Fixed it for you, r54.

Lucy Liu don't do MadTv for free, that bitch!

I loved the You Are The Love of My Life sketches

Again I'd swear a Datalounger came up with this idea

Ms Swan.

"He look like a man."

I was going to post the link R11 posted. Anything and everything Deborah Wilson did was spectacular. She was the stand out star from MADTV for me. Everybody else pales in comparison.

R56 OMG I love that skit. And especially when Ms. Swan appears.

Was watching it in a mixed bar (straight theater people and theater MARY!s) and the ROAR when Swan's segment came on still kinda gives me goosebumps.

disruptive...

I think a different Whitney was posted above but I love this Icon sketch that makes fun of her terrible choreography and has her "skinning" bjork

Rather prescient...

Clothes for WomenOver 40

literally

Damn, the clip at R37 reminds me how badly when I was a teenager I wanted Bryan Callen to breed me. I’d still hit it.

In my mind Alison is the inspiration for Rachel Berry

Ms. Swan goes to a gay bar...

This was the best - Debra playing both Whitney AND Mariah.

Bryan Callen was a hot little furry stud.

I also was hot for Michael McDonald.....when he was dressed normally (which almost never happened on the show LOL)

MADtv definitely had the hotter cast.

My personal favorite was Andrew Bowen, who only did one season in the late '90s.

I remember he specialized in doing Keanu Reeves and Brad Pitt.

Fridays was even edgier. It would never pass the P.C. censors today.

R73, I don’t remember Friday and think I see why.

Thespian Dorothy Lanier

Funny, r75, but title unfortunately gave away the punchline.

Deborah Wilson was extremely talented. She’d win a Emmy if this were on today since they nominate far lessers from SNL. The show suffered when she left, and in the last years. I’m sure a lot of the best writers left. I forgot why she left, and as someone said, she should have had a bigger career.

But what about DEBRA Wilson?

R78 Sorry, someone upthread spelled it the way I did so I thought that was how you spelled it. Please accept my most humble apologies.

Fridays was very edgy and funny for its day

[quote] I forgot why she left

It had to do with pay. Towards the later seasons when she was on, Fox was planning to do major pay cuts to many of the veteran members of the show, and they lowballed her.

Thankfully, she has found great success doing voiceover work.

It was worse than that, r81. She found out that new cast members were coming in and making a lot more than her so she asked for a raise - not even equal to what the new cast members were making but just an increase. They refused. Good for her for leaving but what a stupid decision by management.

Dot

I would love a good behind the scenes book about Mad TV. It sounds like the producers and network were horrible to work with so it's amazing they managed to put out such a funny show for so long.

Watching the clips on here, what I’m reminded of is the level of acting (and writing) the show had. Just brilliant across the board. Current SNL isn’t even in the ballpark.

Who wants to beat their meat?

Snapshot stories

[quote]We knew at [R17], and [R30], and again at [R48].

R52 Fuck off.

[quote]But what about DEBRA Wilson?

She does voice work for a lot of video games.

Miss Swan!

He look like a man.

Until I looked at the credits more carefully I thought it was Will Sasso and Nicole Sullivan playing Mandy's parents on GEORGIE & MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE.

R92 it isn't?

Thank you for reminding me about this gem showcasing the hefty hoofer collection.

r93 It's Will Sasso and "Dear Evan Hansen" Tony winner Rachel Bay Jones.

Yes so I found out......

R6 He and Lorraine Swanson were absolutely hysterical. There was a brief period when Madtv was legit funnier than SNL. But sometimes they would go too overboard with their sketches and drag them out too long.

Here's the complete Hefty Hoofer collection. The video at r94 cuts off midway

My favorite Cabana Chat sketch was the one featuring Ice-T.

“Can’t help you with that, Pool Boy.”

Rachel Ray

The WB's newest hit show, The Gabmore Girls

The Vagina Monologue, featuring Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush

Hosted by Oprah Winfrey

Nicole defies...

Tres Companeros

I think DL fave Joyce DeWitt would definitely approve of Nicole Sullivan's idiotic Chrissy. And the guy doing Don Knotts is spot-on

Who remembers Greg the Bunny?

Good Morning Boulder hosted by John and Patsy Ramsey

The show gave us Will Sasso, a giant bear man with a giant dick and the sweetest disposition :D