Fox Cancels "Mad TV"

Variety:

Fox is closing the book on "Mad TV" after 14 seasons.

Net confirmed Wednesday that the Saturday night sketch series, which had barely escaped cancellation in recent years, will end its run at the end of this season.

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Comments

[GetoffMylawn]

This was the least funny show ever.
Good to see it go.

[reallymolly]

I wish it was possible to combine Mad and SNL and make a really good show. Mad has been consistently funnier, but SNL always has the superior cast.

[gohmak]

SNL has superior guest, never superior cast.

[Serious Lee]

Too bad, this show is far better than SNL.!

[Nestor92]

I've never liked Mad TV, it was never funny to me.
What is it about Fox anyways?
They kept Mad TV for 15 years and got rid of Arrested Development.

[IAB]

MUCH funnier than SNL has been in years.

[retrocozayshin]

It's about time.

[Classof89]

Now if they only get rid of SNL. 15+ years past overdue, and is beyond painful.

[IAB]

I hear you...it was good probably 20 years ago or more...

[Persian]

What took them so long?!

[clsmithj]

I got a lot funny laughs out of this show as I did with SNL this political season.

That Under Barack Obama parody vid was a cornerstone video that I believe in some ways helped Obama beat Hillary in the primaries.

[IAB]

I am sorry, comedy shows do NOT influence votes...if one relies on a comedy sketch to decide their vote, they are in serious need of therapy and a brain.

[ladyv]

If one relies on or is influenced by a comedy sketch to decide their vote, they are still a citizen with a vote, which means a comedy show has influenced a vote.

Also, differentiate between "relies on" and "is influenced by." They are far from the same thing. Only a low information person or an authoritarian "relies on" anything other than themselves for their vote, because that means a single source with which they do not argue. Other people are influenced by many, many things, positively or negatively.

But no way Under Barack Obama found its way to enough of the right kind of people that it had anything to do with the outcome of the primaries. And there was nothing particularly cutting about it. It was funny, but not because it played on anything about the candidates themselves. It played on racial stereotypes. It didn't cut into anything we knew about Hillary and skewer her like Fey's Palin impression, in which things Palin never actually said ("I can see Russia from my house!") became more pervasive than things she didn't say. Kind of like when an offhand remark by Rush Limbaugh got turned into a widespread accusation that Gore claimed to have invented the internet, when he actually said nothing of the kind, and only claimed - correctly - that he had been an early supporter of major defense department projects that had laid the groundwork for what many years later become the internet as we know it.

[stagebandman]

When MadTV started, it really shook SNL out of it's rut. They both pushed the limits of taste, and overused some lame running gags and characters (I'm sorry, but Stewart got old years ago). Still, when I tuned in, there was always something there to make me laugh. I always thought this was the better venue for black talent. Phil LeMarr, Orlando Jones, Debra Wilson and Aries Spears were brilliant, and they, along with so many others from the show, have not graduated to the right situation for them. Nicole Sullivan's new show is incredibly vanilla, but Phil LeMarr seems to be doing okay as a voice artist, just as, obviously, Alex Borstein has with Family Guy. I know Spears is very bitter about leaving the show, and that's really too bad. He was on the same time Tracy Morgan was on SNL, and there's really no comparison. Aries is a million times funnier and more talented. Maybe they'll invite everyone back for a big ending. That'd be great.

[Classof89]

Aries as Eddie Murphy was one of the best.

[KISSman]

Wow, that was like 10-years overdue. That show was amazingly unfunny.

[ChiGuy]

They used to be funnier and edgier than SNL.
But when they lost Alex Borstein, Mo Collins and Stephanie Weir a couple of years ago, they didn't replace them with very talented people, and the show was doomed.

I hope Keegan Michael Key and Nicole Parker land on their feet real soon.

[InedaName]

Hear that, Lorne Michaels? Keegan Michael Key will be available next fall. Don't you agree that he looks and sounds more like Obama than Fred Armisen does?

[MountPanic]

I'll second that. KMK is a funny MF.

I really like Armisen too, but his Obama just doesn't measure up.

MADtv's women are quite a bit better than what SNL is left with now that Tina, Maya and Amy are gone.

[IAB]

I wonder if SNL will go light on Obama...if they do, the show will be over in no time...

[tossytosser]

What no more Fox News?

That is the Maddest TV out there

[ErnestineBass]

LMAO!

[vandegrasse]

I'm shocked allright, and awed by your stupidity!

[IAB]

It may shock some of you, but a few studies showed that Fox remained less partisan than some of the other news outlets...just facts...you may not like it, but that's how it is.

[Slapmewhenitsover]

Will Michael McDonald ever ?work? again?

[ChiGuy]

Never liked that guy.
(Although "Stewart" was creepily hilarious.)

[huffyISaHottie]

" what did he look like".............." heeeee looka lika man"

[JoyIsGwenNYC]

Uh Oh! Hotdog!! :)

[bob8788]

WTF, Why? I can't believe this, yes this cast was not that funny but I thought at least they would be around for a new cast, I remember back in the days that show was beating SNL funny as hell, sad

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