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Even as a kid desperate for comedy with like 4 channels Mad tv was too lovely to watch.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I I think I got most of the reprint paperbacks from garage sales but I had a bunch of them and read them multiple times as an 8-13 year old. It's how I learned that there were problems in inner cities, that some people didn't trust the government explicitly, and some other sort of weird 70's American socio-economic problems that as a upper-middle class suburban white kid I would have never known about.
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Jul 9, 2019 15:02
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The All Ighty Ollar! (Loved the fold-ins and, yes, I say that all the time. I know, I know...but it's still funny to me!)
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Jul 10, 2019 04:21
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Jul 10, 2019 05:00
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Even as a kid desperate for comedy with like 4 channels Mad tv was too lovely to watch. i watched so much mad tv even tho i hated it. its all that was on comedy central for certain blocks when i watched. i could have changed the channel but it was just background while i used the computer so i didnt look too hard
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Jul 10, 2019 05:05
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marijuanamancer posted:i watched so much mad tv even tho i hated it. its all that was on comedy central for certain blocks when i watched. i could have changed the channel but it was just background while i used the computer so i didnt look too hard MadTV was funny, but if you expected it to be like the magazine, you'd be upset. I got suckered into to watching it when it first came out because I thought, 'Gee! Mad as a show!" Aside from the Spy v. Spy bits, nothing about it was related. It was funny, though. Nice alternative to SNL (it was on Fox! haha).
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Jul 10, 2019 05:14
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i didn't expect it to be like the magazine, because i didn't really read the magazine, but nah i just didn't think it was funny.
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Jul 10, 2019 05:17
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michael mcdonald and brian callen were super annoying. phil lamar and aries spears were good
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Jul 10, 2019 05:20
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marijuanamancer posted:i didn't expect it to be like the magazine, because i didn't really read the magazine, but nah i just didn't think it was funny. Not your type of humor? It's okay. More House of Buggin fan or nah?
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Jul 10, 2019 05:21
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i liked about 70% of the cast back when i watched it as a teenager. a few of the sketches really left me in stitches. always loved will sasso, especially his parodies of steven seagal and kenny rogers. their claymation segments were cool too. and mrs swan i lmao every time marijuanamancer posted:michael mcdonald and brian callen were super annoying. phil lamar and aries spears were good 
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Jul 10, 2019 05:23
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Will Sasso made that show work, but whoever came up with the Miss Swan sketch should be drawn and quartered. Even if it was Will Sasso.
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Jul 10, 2019 05:24
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Will Sasso made that show work, but whoever came up with the Miss Swan sketch should be drawn and quartered. Even if it was Will Sasso. She is the voice of the mom on Family Guy. Do you like that show?
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Jul 10, 2019 05:25
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I like Alex Borstein but that sketch was dogshit.
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Jul 10, 2019 05:29
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Vato posted:She is the voice of the mom on Family Guy. Do you like that show? She also won a Golden Globe for the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel this year. Do you like that show?
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Jul 10, 2019 05:30
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that voice makes me like 90% sure that's Harry Partridge, or "Happy Harry Cartoons." Does parodies, some funny, most are just time-wasters
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Jul 10, 2019 05:35
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Rusty Shackelford posted:She also won a Golden Globe for the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel this year. Do you like that show? I've never seen it. Is it good?
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Jul 10, 2019 05:37
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Vato posted:I've never seen it. Is it good? Yes, it's about a young couple in the 1950s, where he wants to be a comedian but she's the funny one.
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Jul 10, 2019 06:08
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Yes, it's about a young couple in the 1950s, where he wants to be a comedian but she's the funny one. Sooo...does he make it? Don't leave me hanging!
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Jul 10, 2019 06:11
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There are two seasons on Amazon Prime now, and I would recommend watching the first episode.
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Jul 10, 2019 06:12
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Rusty Shackelford posted:There are two seasons on Amazon Prime now, and I would recommend watching the first episode. I don't have Amazon Prime...but I know somewhere that does. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Jul 10, 2019 06:15
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Jul 10, 2019 07:25
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 "lol 40 years ago" and so on but they still occasionally dropped some turbogarbage even in their later years like that Chelsea Manning action figure thing And gently caress, I remember they reprinted their og star wars spoof multiple times in the 90s for full colour specials and poo poo and they definitely did not at any point feel like it might be time to excise that panel, actually. Booooooomeeeerrrrrs.
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Jul 10, 2019 09:19
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Lodin posted:Man, this sucks. Sure MAD was poo poo since the 90's but still. Just the other day I found this pocket book published in 59. Is this Zosia Mamet from Girls?
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Jul 10, 2019 09:35
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I still think this is one of the funniest things in the world rectal health is no joke brother HH
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Jul 10, 2019 12:20
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I always liked the books and super specials that reprinted stuff from the 50s, 60s, & 70s when I was a kid reading them in the mid-80s, because they taught me a ton about history and pop culture before my time, and it was done entirely by mocking and making fun of those things. i picked up tons of those MAD novel sized books from flea markets. those books made me realize the huge amount of material they reprint. i'd be reading some MAD book from the 70's and i would notice material that they reprinted in the latest issue i just bought from the news stand. after that i would always look for the bell bottom jeans in the cartoons, thats how you can tell the ancient reprints.
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Jul 10, 2019 12:30
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Vato posted:I've never seen it. Is it good? It’s alright, Tony Shalhoub being goofy is always fun
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Jul 10, 2019 14:34
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MadTV sucked because it was pre-recorded yet had worse production values than Saturday Night Live. It had talented performers and writers (a lot of Mr Show alum) but nobody really gave a poo poo, so all the characters are just like The Asian and The Asian Actually Played By An Asian and The Jew and Developmentally Disabled Possibly Gay Child.
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Jul 10, 2019 15:34
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Rusty Shackelford posted:he wants to be a comedian but she's the funny one. Ah, a biopic about Lowtax and his daughter.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:43
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peanut posted:whatheck they were still making MAD ?!?!
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Jul 10, 2019 16:49
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MadTV was bad but there was some gold in there. The already posted Kenny Rogers stuff, Sopranos on PAX, and I liked Babewatch but I'm a fan of Artie, so I'm biased.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:59
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has anyone said BAD Magazine yet? 
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Jul 10, 2019 17:31
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All I have is PTSD memories of Michael McDonald doing little kid talk and it was seriously the worst thing in the universe.
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Jul 10, 2019 18:51
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The Big Word posted:
yeeeeah that was like the only mad i ever owned and i bought it in 97 for the star wars special edition run
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Jul 10, 2019 18:54
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Will Sasso is a national treasure
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Jul 10, 2019 19:00
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pretty soft girl posted:Will Sasso is a national treasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d82j_Qfp_VA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_l-4rAUAzQ
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Jul 10, 2019 19:07
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i also watched a lot of madtv as a kid, and while i don't remember any of it as "good" i do remember a lot of it. that's what you did when you didn't have cable in 2003
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Jul 10, 2019 19:20
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Jose Oquendo posted:MadTV was bad but there was some gold in there. Sopranos on PAX was just Pallies from Mr Show, which was itself a blatant ripoff of a British sketch show's censored Goodfellas sketch. LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i also watched a lot of madtv as a kid, and while i don't remember any of it as "good" i do remember a lot of it. that's what you did when you didn't have cable in 2003 I had cable and for a lot of the 00s Comedy Central was mostly SNL reruns with the odd MadTV rerun to break them up.
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Jul 10, 2019 19:38
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Analytic Engine posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d82j_Qfp_VA Him doing commentary on the ultra-widescreen is great. Sasso was one of those guys who was way too good for that show. Eventually, Mad TV got way too involved with over-acting, recurring character skits that followed the same formula each time, and skits that "read well at the table," like SNL is now.
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It was kinda neat to see animated Spy vs Spy cartoons in MadTV while they still did that. Maybe I’ll pick up a trade paperback compilation of those someday.
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