Comments on: Long running DC TV show canceled

by: Tony B.

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:50:57 +0000

Bobby Lee cracks me up! I hope he gets picked up for something.

by: Cary Coatney

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:23:43 +0000

I should correct myself: I meant to say, anyone OTHER than Phil LeMarr has gone on to do anything else??

Artie Lange?

Please!!

Give me a break. Not even remotely funny as Jackie The Jokeman or Billy West.

Coat

by: gene phillips

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:53:54 +0000

“Depressed Persian Tow Truck Man” is as good as the best from classic SNL.

by: Jason Green

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:35:09 +0000

As far as alums go, Frank Caliendo is doing just fine for himself, with his own Comedy Central TV show “Frank TV,” weekly appearances on Fox’s football coverage, and a series of Dish Network commercials (which easily have to be the most obnoxious things EVER).

by: AERose

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:05:03 +0000

I think I gave up on Mad TV when I turned 12. Did it become not horrible at some point in the intervening 7 years?

by: austinspace

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:55:04 +0000

I’m just impressed that other “with it” news sites use the action term “developing” like our beloved Beat.

Developing.

by: tom fowler

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:55:56 +0000

to be fair, artie lange is mostly dead…

by: mark coale

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:12:28 +0000

I would think, off the top of my head, the most successful alums are Artie Lange (not dead), Nicole Sullivan and Phil LaMarr.

But it’s not like any of them have had a post-SNL career like Eddie or Bill Murray or Will Ferrell.

by: tom fowler

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:41:29 +0000

a lot of voice acting.

by: jimmy palmiotti

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:40:14 +0000

that is a shame. another network should pick it up right away. its 100 times better, funnier and more cutting edge than snl

by: Cary Coatney

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:29:27 +0000

Has anyone from this show ever gone to do anything else?

Coat

by: Matt

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:15:15 +0000

Mad Tv was better than SNL for at least 4-5 seasons. The last 2 or 3 though however have not been as good. They keep losing their best cast members.

by: tom fowler

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:41:56 +0000

i started reading that sentence and i swear to god i thought it was going to end: “…the same week that artie lange died.”

by: mark coale

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:25:32 +0000

Funny it gets cancelled the same week that Artie Lange’s book comes out.

by: rich

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:45:36 +0000

” … it even boasted a cute, earnest young cast of up and coming comics that no one has ever heard of, either.”

MAD TV was always a funny show, unlike SNL. And that program, too, began with a cute, earnest young cast that no one had heard of, also.

by: Tyson

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:14:01 +0000

I liked the crazy gym teacher sketches where the guy had a tie around his t-shirt and stupidly short shorts while routinely freaking out at students, teachers, etc.

by: Evie

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:17:24 +0000

Uh, yeah… I had no idea it was still on. All I know is that whenever you turn on Comedy Central in the middle of the day, ever, you see Mad TV. The same episode. The one where someone uses a funny voice.

by: SpyBoy

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:02:49 +0000

“DC TV show?” Hardly.

by: Nate Linley

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:47:34 +0000

This hasn’t been the best season of MAD TV, but it at least parodies shows like HOUSE and GREY”S ANATOMY, instead of out of date local talk shows and game shows like SNL typically does. And there are many talented cast members who should get scooped up by SNL to beef up the big show–without Fey and Poehler, there isn’t much star power left on SNL.