MAD TV Last Night
MAD TV Last Night
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#0MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/23/06 at 1:54pm
Watched it last night & even though it was a rerum I never saw it. They did a devestating parody of Medium
This is definitely head & shoulders over SNL
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Updated On: 7/23/06 at 01:54 PM
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/23/06 at 2:07pm
I forgot that one
The cast is first rate
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/23/06 at 3:21pm
I would have saw it, but my 7-year-old cousin is visiting and was all wound up and hyper. He doesn't like programs that aren't animated.
How devestating? Mad TV isn't what it used to be.
duroc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/05
#3re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/23/06 at 3:52pmI saw it when it first aired and rewatched part of it last night. Some of the skits were funny. I actually really enjoyed the Medium skit. The girl who played Patricia Arquette was hilarious.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#4re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/23/06 at 4:57pmIt's been better than SNL for years. I liked the flashlight scene.
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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#5re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:40pm
When Mad TV started out, it was pretty poor and in my mind, a huge snl ripoff. Now, I can honestly say that the cast is so much better than SNL. SNL lost the magic and Mad TV definitely picked it up
My fav mad tv skit is the Grey's Anatomy one.
#6re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:40pm
I miss Alex Bernstein! She's so funny as Ms Swan. Did anyone catch her "Dancing Queen" at the gay bar?
That's probably my favorite.. or the one with Meryl Streep as the Tooth Fairy.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/23/06 at 10:31pm
^ Ms. Swan is my favorite! I loved when she sang "Dancing Queen" at the gay bar. Classic.
I miss the Stuart skits with Mo Collins as Doreen. Stuart isn't very funny anymore without Mommy to back him up.
#9re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/24/06 at 5:22amI think that was Susan Sarandon as the tooth fairy...
"They have never understood, and no reason that they should.
But if anybody could . . . " --SS
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:06pmThe flashlight scene was inspired. SNL would have done it in the early years but would not do it now
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#12re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:15pm
The babies skit was kinda funny, too.
MAD TV is just as hit-or-miss as SNL, but when they hit it, they hit it hard.
Love Stephanie Weir as Dot and Nurse Kylie.
I miss Mo Collins as Lorraine and Stewart's mother.
Debra Wilson's absolutely incredible imitation of a cracked-out Whitney Houston...priceless.
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~ Muhammad Ali
#13re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/24/06 at 2:00pmTwo women I went to college with have been in the cast, Nicole Sullivan and Daniele Gaither. They were funny women even then!
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
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MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#15re: MAD TV Last Night
Posted: 7/24/06 at 2:09pm
I think my favorite MadTV skit ever is the Joe Ezsterhas parody "Window of the Soul"
Joe: Catherine is by far the most compelling character I've created.
Interviewer: Wasn't Catherine the Sharon Stone character from "Basic Instinct"?
Joe: Yes.....Sally is by far the most original, compelling character I've created.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
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