Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Pretty Good

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I love snl and no one can beat them as the kings of late night sketch comedy, however mad TV comes close!They did a great job at creating a show that had it's own style and not just a rip off of snl. Unlike snl there's no celebrity guest host(except in season 2) rare musical guest and is only an hour, while snl's an hour and a half. I love snl but let's be honest, there's always only those few sketches that standout, the rest are just OK or fillers. But with mad TV there's no fillers, every sketch is hilarious! That's because the show always focus more on it's cast then snl, mad is able to let lose a lot more. And this show lives up to it's name, mad, because the writers and cast of comedians seem to be out of their minds with stuff they come up with. I love their recurring characters, vancome lady,white momma,Debra,Sturat & his mom, Loraine, Mrs.Swan and ubs guy! The show has nothing really to do with mad magazine, but occailly seeing Alfred E. Newman, spy vs. spy and Don Martins is a nice addition to the show. They had a great cast over the years, Nicole Sullivan, Areis Spears, Bobby Lee, Will Sasso, Mo Collins, Debra Wilson, Micheal Mcdonald Nicole Parker, Phil Lamar Keagan Micheal Keagan and etc. I love the original theme song," You're so crazy, You drive me wild!" "You are now watching Mad TV!". I wish it wasn't canceled but it had a great 14 season run. No doubt a classic series for the Fox network, LONG LIVE MAD TV!

OK, so maybe "Mad TV" is the same sort of thing as "Saturday Night Live", but you still gotta love it! No matter what the situation is, they always find something great to do (including a recent skit where Kim Jong Il has the hots for Jennifer Love Hewitt during the Macy's Day Parade). Part of what it shows is that as long as our society - and the world in general - functions as it does, satire will always have a place.As for the cast, they're all quite hilarious. Bobby Lee and Frank Caliendo have got to be some of the funniest guys out there; if you haven't seen Caliendo's George W. Bush imitation, then you're really missing something! If I have to choose between this one and "SNL", I would probably go with the latter just because of it's early days. But you can't deny that this one provides its solid share of laughs. It's a modern TV classic.

Let me first off say that I have been,still am and will probably always be a follower of "Saturday Night Live",but after watching a large gob of reruns of this FOX TV answer to the venerable NBC weekend sketch/variety show,I can say that I've become very impressed with this sketch show from producer Quincy Jones.Premiering in October of 1995,this show is the lone survivor among a feeding frenzy of competition shows that popped up that year attempting to dethrone what was perceived(accurately so for the most part)a vulnerable SNL. While MAD hasn't even come close to unseating its more famous competitor,it's carved a very nice niche on Saturdays,due in no small part to the very yeoman-like work of some fine comedic talent. A partial list of those actors:Michael McDonald,Nicole Sullivan,Alex Borstein,Will Sasso,Aries Spears,Debra Wilson,Frank Caliendo,Mo Collins,Bobby Lee,Paul Vogt and Stefanie Weir. They've all contributed strong original characters as well as impressions of celebs. In fact,to me,I'd say that MAD's rep cast has better,less annoying and more spot-on original characters of late than does Lorne Michael's show of late. Some faves: Miss Swan,Stuart,Lorraine Swanson,Michael and Jasmine(the pop duo with EXACTLY one song in them that goes "You are the love of my life..."),Trina and Bonifa Latifa Halifa Jackson.HAven't caught MAD TV yet(and if you watch enough shows,you'll notice that earlier eps seem to be more attached to the eponymous magazine's rep and characters,shows from about 1998 on are far more independent of the inspirational comic standby from Warner Brothers),just tune in to Comedy Central four or five different times of the weekdays,because they're running those shows like they're going out of style. A very good alternative for those who are tired(to whatever degree) of that other late night sketch show.

For the first couple of seasons, MadTV was the best sketch comedy to be seen on television since the original Saturday Night Live. It was anarchic, unpredictable, off-the-wall and, most of all, fresh. The ensemble cast was great, the claymation segments were gut-bustingly funny, and even the recurring shticks, such as the "Lowered Expectations" dating service videos and "Cabana Chat," were loose enough to allow a lot of variation.Then something bad happened.The cast changed -- not a problem in and of itself, except that several very versatile performers were replaced by performers who were not as versatile. (The crucial element in ensemble sketch comedy is every actor's being able to play a straight role.) Much worse, the writing changed. Suddenly MadTV was succumbing to the same phenomenon that had plunged recent seasons of SNL into cringeworthy humorlessness: the Recurring Character.You knew exactly what you were going to see every week on SNL: A Mary Katherine Gallagher sketch. A sketch with those two loser club guys. A cheerleader sketch. The same actors came back week after week and did the same characters over and over, long past their expiration dates.MadTV was doomed when it became apparent that every one of its episodes was also going to be the same: A Vancome Lady sketch. A UBS Guy sketch. A Stuart sketch. A Swan sketch (what an offensive character, not to mention singularly unfunny). A James Brown sketch (Aries Spears doesn't even do James Brown well). A sketch featuring whoever that lady who can't sit still or pay attention to anything is supposed to be. Enough, already! The only advantage MadTV had left over SNL was that it showed two sketches in between each commercial break instead of only one.Oh, how I long for the days when a simple dressing-down of an executive assistant by his boss could blow up into a manic exchange featuring such over-the-top lines as: "God? God is not here! Your report was so insanely disappointing, it drove God away!" Alas, it is not to be.