MADtv Airs Series Finale This Saturday

COMMENTS (5)

• I’m so sad to see them go. They were a million times funnier than SNL. But I rarely watched them. I always forgot that they were on. I’d turn to SNL just because I’ve watched it since the beginning. But SNL was rarely laugh out loud funny. Only during certain spurts like the early ’70′s and during Eddie Murphy’s reign.

  I had this fantasy that the MAD TV writers would go to NYC and ambush the SNL writers one night and slip their own jokes into the show. Then I could laugh at SNL again.

  Comment by peggy — Thursday May 14, 2009 @ 10:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• 14 seasons and not a funny sketch to boot…

  That Ladies and Gentleman, is what you define as a successful Hollywood run.

  Comment by Terrible Dan — Thursday May 14, 2009 @ 10:56am PDT  Reply to this post

• Fourteen seasons (half spent in the age of the viral video) and I can’t recall a single sketch or break out character.

  Not a hater, but yeesh…

  Comment by EB — Thursday May 14, 2009 @ 11:00am PDT  Reply to this post

• omg i thought this went off the air LAST Fall. shoot, i need to rewind and catch who all they skewered THIS season. Thanks Nikki

  Comment by Demetrius — Thursday May 14, 2009 @ 5:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Peggy, if SNL was funny during the early ’70s, are you saying it was funny for 2-3 years before it went on the air?

  Comment by Dono — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 9:12am PDT  Reply to this post