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SilvergunSuperman posted:I watched this on your recommendation, it fuckin sucked. Hold on lemme rewatch that. Ok yeah, you're right, it's terrible. Even relative to Miss Swan. I still like this one though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFsgvH8cAc
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I never watched Mad TV because I assumed it was like Saturday Night Live, where even if the performers were funny people, less than 1% of what made it to the air was worth watching. That's just the way it was when network TV was the main option people had, and all programming had to cater to the widest possible demographic/ lowest common denominator. Saturday Night Live is still terrible, and pretty much has been for 44 years except for some rare gems. Nonetheless, I highly respect tons of comedians who have been on that show. It's not (entirely) their fault it's awful. Anyway, here is a cross-post from the magazine thread: The infamous Mad Magazine flag insert from 1971:    
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Cross-post from the book thread:    There are a bunch of Mad books in there if anyone cares to go looking for them.
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Mad was always before my time. Last time I picked up a Mad magazine I flipped it open to find parody action figures of democratic primary candidates and it was the most toothless poo poo. valorizing all those assholes (except Bernie) and giving them the Notorious RBG treatment. Mad looks like it used to be transgressive and critical of power. I'd feel bad about their situation if they still were that way, but they're not so I don't.
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Kazak posted:Mad was always before my time. Last time I picked up a Mad magazine I flipped it open to find parody action figures of democratic primary candidates and it was the most toothless poo poo. valorizing all those assholes (except Bernie) and giving them the Notorious RBG treatment. Same, only the forums
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I had a subscription as a kid, and they used to send it with a brown cover so the magazine would be protected in the mail. One time this was on that cover: apparently they got a lot of complaints and 'apologized' the next issue
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I never watched Mad TV because I assumed it was like Saturday Night Live, where even if the performers were funny people, less than 1% of what made it to the air was worth watching. That's just the way it was when network TV was the main option people had, and all programming had to cater to the widest possible demographic/ lowest common denominator. Saturday Night Live is still terrible, and pretty much has been for 44 years except for some rare gems. Nonetheless, I highly respect tons of comedians who have been on that show. It's not (entirely) their fault it's awful. Mad TV is purestrain Gen X television, it was just too detached and above it all to even try to be funny and even if it had talented people working on it they never cared because caring about things is lame.
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i used to love mad magazine and cracked magazine i watched madtv too but couldn't really tell you anything about it, besides a pulp fiction parody once? and there was some band that performed funny songs or something
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The only thing I remember about MadTV was the 'Sopranos: edited for cable' sketch that a lot of people seemed to like, but it just felt like a bad copy of this Mr. Show sketch. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-rGnI9XNo Well, that and in middle school/HS one kid thought it was the height of comedy to do that 'Look what I can do!' bit
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Pontificating rear end posted:I had a subscription as a kid, and they used to send it with a brown cover so the magazine would be protected in the mail. One time this was on that cover: Hahahhaa that’s really good
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MadTv skits that are good: Snapshot Stories with Nicole Sullivan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYe5hcm7B2o Snapshot Stories with Mo Collins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAwPqajeIag Snapshot Stories with Aries Spears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4G7r2sJBps Snow Dogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z83UerBjofw
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Sleeveless posted:Mad TV is purestrain Gen X television, it was just too detached and above it all to even try to be funny and even if it had talented people working on it they never cared because caring about things is lame. Gen X you say? OJ Bloopers CLOPS
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Sleeveless posted:Mad TV is purestrain Gen X television, it was just too detached and above it all to even try to be funny and even if it had talented people working on it they never cared because caring about things is lame. I disagree. I would say Mr. Show was the most purestrain Gen. X show. That is, if you insist on pigeonholing comedy into different age brackets.
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LadyPictureShow posted:The only thing I remember about MadTV was the 'Sopranos: edited for cable' sketch that a lot of people seemed to like, but it just felt like a bad copy of this Mr. Show sketch. That Mr Show sketch is an even bigger ripoff of an older British sketch show because they also specifically did a Goodfellas parody with bad dubs and overlays, Sopranos on PAX is a completely different execution of the most basic underlying concept.
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Pontificating rear end posted:I had a subscription as a kid, and they used to send it with a brown cover so the magazine would be protected in the mail. One time this was on that cover: If it turned out MAD shutting down was just another goof and they just go back to business making a dead gay humor magazine that would be pretty funny
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I disagree. I would say Mr. Show was the most purestrain Gen. X show. That is, if you insist on pigeonholing comedy into different age brackets. They're about the same, only difference is Mr.Show was on HBO so they could push it a lot more and were certainly taking advantage of this to one-up their competition. Considering that I dont even think you needed cable to see MADtv, it was pretty edgy. Dr. Video Games 0112 fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jul 21, 2019 |
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I met Joan Cornella irl and he seemed a bit goony but was mostly pretty normal. His English wasnt perfect
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I never forgot this Mad TV sketch.
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Mad TV felt like what would happen if you took In Living Color and got rid of all the black people
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EugeneJ posted:Mad TV felt like what would happen if you took In Living Color and got rid of all the black people
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Gutcruncher posted:I never forgot this Mad TV sketch. That's SNL.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:That's SNL. Okay nevermind then MAD TV really was worthless
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MadTV was really only worth a poo poo its first two-ish seasons, with the original cast and the slew of animated or claymated interstitial jokes. Then they started getting Recurring Character Skit disease and cut back on everything else and it was indistinguishable from SNL (but with more minorities, barely).
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I also read a shitload of these when I was a kid thanks to my dad's collection from 70-80s. I remember the barcode cover and yoda covers posted in this thread. Good timing as I just received a Mad subscription for Christmas. Kind of glad it will be filled out with classic material. The Trump=bad stuff on the current issues is just tedious and boring to me.
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MADs heyday was before my time but it did help shape my formative years. Fa!
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salt shakeup posted:I also read a shitload of these when I was a kid thanks to my dad's collection from 70-80s. I remember the barcode cover and yoda covers posted in this thread. Same, except I was a kid in the 80s and my dad's stuff was from the 60s and early 70s. It was also instrumental in my early learning of English (we're Norwegian). We still bought the mag pretty often in the 80s (both the Norwegian edition and the original US one). One funny side effect was that in those days big American movies and such usually only made it here 6 months or so after their US release, but there was no such delay on periodicals. So for every movie, we'd long since read the Mad parody.
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Here are three excellent Mad special covers:   FYI to anyone interested, I'll be posting a bunch of old issues of Mad in the magazine thread in the coming days/ weeks. I also just got this book as a gift for subscribing to Mad Magazine:  
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The Big Word posted:43-Man Squamish is one of my absolute favourite bits from the early magazine format era. That and The Night People vs Creeping Meatballism (by Jean Shepherd!): This is the guy Stan Lee stole his catch phrase ("Excelsior!") from. It used to be a secret phrase for listeners of his show to identify themselves.
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FilthyImp posted:MadTV was really only worth a poo poo its first two-ish seasons, with the original cast and the slew of animated or claymated interstitial jokes. This. It owned hard when it was the original cast and actually affiliated with MAD Magazine. It was better than SNL over the same timeframe, but that's not saying much. I was also watching MAD Tv when the news broke that Princess Diana died. I will always associate the phrase "WILL NOBODY HANDLE MY NUTS?!?!" with her death.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Here are three excellent Mad special covers: Thanks mate. These are bringing back memories
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MAD magazine was one more casualty of 2016, the year satire died
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