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mad tv sucked. what was that one poo poo sketch with the asian lady
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Plan Z posted:Him doing commentary on the ultra-widescreen is great. Sasso was one of those guys who was way too good for that show. I hated that they had Andy Daly for like one season and just used him as the straight man character all the time.
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Jul 10, 2019 21:51
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I remember seeing a bunch of Columbine jokes in MAD. It was shocking back then but now everyone is so numb to school shootings that I don't know if anyone would notice. MADTv was good, but there was waaaaay too much Bobby Lee. Mid 2000s SNL was so terrible that I stopped watching it.
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Jul 10, 2019 21:57
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christmas boots posted:I hated that they had Andy Daly for like one season and just used him as the straight man character all the time. They even had a sketch specifically calling this out if I remember correctly Go figure that the best cast member they ever had was completely unutilized
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Jul 10, 2019 21:59
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Casimir Radon posted:MADTv was good, but there was waaaaay too much Bobby Lee. Mid 2000s SNL was so terrible that I stopped watching it. I remember Bobby Lee telling a story about his addiction to Vicodin. The producers knew, gave him one last shot with a Connie Chung sketch. Duncan Trussell removed all the pills from his house the night before, so he had the shakes by the time they went on stage. He ended up making GBS threads himself in front of the studio audience seconds into the sketch and got shipped off to rehab. He got hired back after getting sober and stuck around for 6 years. If the producers paid for his rehab, they were probably trying to get their money's worth out of him. LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Jul 10, 2019 22:13
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Will Sasso continued on his Hollywood journey from MadTV and onto...Southland Tales. For some reason. Also Bobby Lee sucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NwBaQTQOeM
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Jul 10, 2019 22:20
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Will Sasso continued on his Hollywood journey from MadTV and onto...Southland Tales.
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Jul 10, 2019 22:31
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Is Joan Cornella a goon?
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Jul 10, 2019 22:37
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LadyPictureShow posted:I remember Bobby Lee telling a story about his addiction to Vicodin. The producers knew, gave him one last shot with a Connie Chung sketch. Duncan Trussell removed all the pills from his house the night before, so he had the shakes by the time they went on stage. Listen to 10 seconds of Bobby Lee on old Opie and Anthony show recordings and you'll instantly know he's not a well put together person. And that was after Mad TV.
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Jul 10, 2019 22:45
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Bobby Lee sucks, but he's still better than Jimmy Fallon. Edit: It's worth remembering that MADTv is where Key and Peele got started.
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Jul 10, 2019 23:20
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I mean, if you have to compare someone to Fallon you've already lost the battle.
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Jul 10, 2019 23:28
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I think the Spishak sketches were one of the few I genuinely still like because they're basically the Cinco sketches from Tim & Eric only minus the production values. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9EZex-ApMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpnNhfL74bs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c07HfrLhBXw
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Jul 11, 2019 01:05
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It just occurred to me that since Mad is going out of print, what was the final win/loss record for Spy vs Spy?
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Jul 13, 2019 20:38
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Fojar38 posted:It just occurred to me that since Mad is going out of print, what was the final win/loss record for Spy vs Spy? Grey Spy is undefeated winner
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Jul 13, 2019 20:59
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Laterite posted:My mom let me read MAD starting when I was like 7-8 which seemed truly transgressive, especially in '80s rural Nebraska. I got in trouble for bringing an issue with me on the bus to school and a dumbass kid told his mom that we were looking at naked women lol. My mom just told me not to bring it outside the house anymore. I think it was one of those things that was cool whenever you started reading it, but dumb a few years later. The jokes were always recycled, just with a dollop of seasoning with whatever/whoever was in the news at the moment.
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Jul 13, 2019 21:03
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Rutibex posted:Grey Spy is undefeated winner Yeah grey spy obviously has 100% win rate but who came in second
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Jul 13, 2019 21:10
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i just remembered mad tv had spy vs. spy. so it wasn't all bad
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Jul 13, 2019 21:13
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Spy vs Spy for the NES was pretty fun
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Jul 13, 2019 21:48
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Mad TV was terrible, but it's entire run is justified by the Raging Rudolph stop motion short.
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Jul 13, 2019 22:35
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Fojar38 posted:It just occurred to me that since Mad is going out of print, what was the final win/loss record for Spy vs Spy? I found a W/L for the animated Spy Vs. Spy bits. The final count was Black Spy: 53 victories White Spy: 51 victories Gray Spy: 1 victory Draws: 2 Black Spy eked our two more wins than White Spy in animated shorts
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Jul 14, 2019 00:30
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I'm having trouble finding reliable sources for the comics. Best I can find is a Reddit thread from 2010 that says White got more wins because he was easier to draw.
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Jul 14, 2019 00:50
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Did they ever finally kiss?
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Jul 14, 2019 02:08
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Pretty White Kids With Problems is still accurate 20 years later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6OUmsPA0I
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Rutibex posted:Grey Spy is undefeated winner
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Jul 14, 2019 03:21
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Casimir Radon posted:Edit: It's worth remembering that MADTv is where Key and Peele got started. Yet another strike against them, Key is the least funny dude alive and Peele is a lovely director.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Yet another strike against them, Key is the least funny dude alive and Peele is a lovely director. Hello Key.
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Jul 14, 2019 03:56
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The best part of MadTV is that so many of them worked on Clone High. I'll laugh at the Vancome Lady every time, though. Also, Debra Wilson used to do a sketch about a "ghetto" girl (since it was the 90s, it was trendy to call everything ghetto) and one time she tries out to be a cheerleader and she meets a girl and the girl's like "oh, I'm Navajo" and Debra Wilson goes "YEAH, I'M NOT A HO EITHER" and I don't know, it makes me laugh when I think about it.
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Jul 15, 2019 12:45
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Jul 15, 2019 16:10
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The Nib is one of the last successful outlets for this style of contemporary humor comics and it's currently in a funding crisis and running largely off of donations. All the people rallying and try to bring back a magazine they haven't read in decades just because they have fuzzy childhood memories should at the very least be throwing some money at an actually good and relevant one that deserves to keep going.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:33
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I remember that this was reprinted in one of the first super specials I bought as a kid in 1986 or 1987, and I thought it was hilarious because it was just so bizarre. It was originally published in issue #95 back in 1965. I have a beat up copy of that issue and meant to bring it in to work with me today so I could scan it, but I forgot. These blurry pics I found online will have to suffice for now.   
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Jul 15, 2019 20:52
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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!):   
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Jul 16, 2019 06:35
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The iRack sketch is so on the nose, and yet it works so well.
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Jul 16, 2019 07:27
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Completely insane fictional sports are always fun. Especially since they're usually still easier to understand than cricket.
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Jul 16, 2019 09:30
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MadTV wasn't all bad! I had a lot of giggles from it and some super talented people came from it. Aries Spears was such a funny dude. There's one particular sketch that was parodying Being John Malkovich, only it was Aries Spears doing his Being James Brown. To this day, my dad can't watch that sketch without laughing until there are tears in his eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4to4T0JXiCY Hometown Slime Queen fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Jul 16, 2019 |
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Jul 16, 2019 09:38
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Mad TV was crazy bad, GenX had terrible taste she looka like a man
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Jul 16, 2019 14:31
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The modern equivalent of learning about pop culture from before your time through MAD spoofs is learning about pop culture from before your time through Family Guy cutaway gags.
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Jul 17, 2019 02:52
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MAD spoofs lasted longer than 5 seconds, and made jokes instead of just pointing to another thing existing
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Jul 17, 2019 03:03
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I like the Alex Borstein one where she was a lounge singer in a men’s restroom. Also the one where she goes into the 1950’s so a woman of her body type can be appreciated, and it isn’t.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:16
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doctorfrog posted:Also the one where she goes into the 1950’s so a woman of her body type can be appreciated, and it isn’t. I watched this on your recommendation, it fuckin sucked. That show is brutal.
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 Mad published this in 1968.
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