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MADtv(TV show/series, 1995-2016)

1h per episode | Genre: Comedy

Scripted Reality in 15 seasons with 332 episodes

MADtvRating: 3.5/5 (with 54 votes)
Mad TV (stylized as MADtv) is an American sketch comedy television series created by David Salzman, Fax Bahr, and Adam Small. Loosely based on the humor magazine Mad, Mad TV's pre-taped satirical sketches were primarily parodies of popular culture and occasionally politics. Many of its sketches featured the show's cast members playing recurring original characters and doing celebrity impressions. The series premiered on Fox on October 14, 1995, and ran for 14 seasons. Its final episode aired on May 16, 2009. Salzman created Mad TV with record producer Quincy Jones after they purchased the rights to Mad in 1995. Salzman brought on Bahr and Small, who had formerly written for the sketch comedy television series In Living Color, as showrunners. The show was intended to compete with fellow sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL), which was experiencing declining viewership and poor critical reception. Critics noted that Mad TV had a more diverse cast than SNL and dealt with edgier, more lowbrow humor. Fox made few efforts to promote Mad TV, which typically fell behind SNL in ratings. Throughout its run, the network continually cut the series' budget before eventually canceling it in 2009. It was nominated for numerous awards, including 43 Primetime Emmy Awards, five of whic... ()
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Awards & Nominations for MADtv

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Variety – Series or Special 3x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design 3x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics

About MADtv

MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by Mad magazine. The one-hour show aired Saturday nights on Fox.

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MADtv Seasons and Episodes

07/26/2016Season 15 - 8 episodes
The fifteenth and final season of the American sketch comedy series Mad TV premiered in the United States on The CW on July 26, 2016, and ended on September 27, 2016. It was a reboot of the original series which aired from 1995 to 2009. ()
Seven years after the show ended on FOX (and in celebration of the show's 20th anniversary), MADtv was briefly revived for eight episodes on The CW. Nicole Sullivan, Will Sasso, Ike Barinholtz, Bobby Lee, Debra Wilson, Aries Spears, Alex Borstein, Mo Collins, and Anjelah Johnson returned as guests.
#1 | 07/26/2016Episode 1
Nicole Sullivan and Will Sasso welcome the new cast members, who say a demonic prayer to help them get through the first episode; CNN presents a political version of The Newlywed Game featuring Bill and Hillary Clinton vs. Donald and Melania Trump rather than a legitimate debate, which depresses Wolf Blitzer; Dora the Explorer explores the seedy side of Los Angeles; Elizabeth Warren upstages Hillary Clinton during a campaign speech; a couple can't keep up with a Game of Thrones recap; Kenny Rogers appears on The Bachelorette's landmark 56th season; HBO First Look goes behind the scenes of an animated reboot of Cinderella featuring the vocal "talents" of Nicki Minaj, Steve Buscemi, Penelope Cruz, Lena Dunham, Kristen Stewart, Tony Danza, and Tracy Morgan; a woman's veteran ex-boyfriend becomes a lounge singer and sings about how she abandoned him and his daughter; Ned Stark from Game of Thrones runs for President in 2016 and makes lewd comments about his daughter.
#2 | 08/02/2016Episode 2
Ike Barinholtz meets Amir K and Piotr Michael and shows them secret compartments hiding booze, pills, and a feral Bobby Lee; Bobby Lee shows Ike Barinholtz their new child; a deranged woman known as Princess Polly (Craig) works the parking lot of a Disneyland-esque theme park; James Bond (Ray) gets rescued by The Blind Kung-Fu Master (Lee); a look at the Rio 2016 Olympics; Ike and Bobby go on Shark Tank; Lyric Lewis invites Idina Menzel (Ortiz) and Kristen Chenoweth (Craig) onstage to sing the national anthem; overly-sensitive millennials (Ortiz, K, Lewis, and Ray) host a college talk show called Safe Space and Melissa McCarthy (Davison) calls them out on their behavior; a third-grade teacher (Davison) has a solution to bullying in her classroom.
#3 | 08/09/2016Episode 3
State Farm Insurance commercial parody where drivers summon their insurance agents during awkward moments; Debra Wilson and Aries Spears return; suicide hotline callers (K, Lewis & Ortiz) are plagued with calls from people who think the hotline is for spoilers about the movie Suicide Squad; an updated version of The Cosby Show centers on Bill Cosby's sexual misconduct; a ghetto court stenographer named Sumbrella (Howard) complicates a slip and fall case; Belma Buttons (Spears) and Tovah McQueen (Wilson) return for another installment of Reality Check where they call out Megyn Kelly (Craig); Octavia Spencer (Lewis) appears on an Iranian talk show; Jeff Goldblum (Michael) rambles his way through a grocery store commercial; sexual tension brews between Oprah Winfrey (Wilson) and her friend Gayle King (Lewis) during a WeightWatchers commercial.
#4 | 08/23/2016Episode 4
Match Game gets a political, modern-day update hosted by Alec Baldwin (Ray); Mo Collins' Lorraine returns to annoy a gym trainer; new album recorded by a diabetic R&B singer (Howard); Donald Trump (Michael) and Hillary Clinton (Nicole Sullivan) sing a duet about the insanity and improbability of both of them running for U.S. President; an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon includes Ariana Grande (Craig) and Pitbull (Ray) playing knife games with Fallon (Michael) for charity; Donald Trump (Michael) spouts off on Confessions of a Terrifically Huge Mind; Talking Dead gets recursive with nested spin-offs; Darlene McBride (Sullivan) returns with her FOX News Car Karaoke special; Arnold Schwarzenegger (Michael) does a PSA against steroids.
#5 | 08/30/2016Episode 5
Dora the Explorer (Ortiz) ventures to Las Vegas where she ends up at a strip club; Kim Jong-Un (Bobby Lee) joins the #RichKidsOfBeverlyHills on E!'s latest reality show; MTV's Flow welcomes a rapper whose lyrics aren't hardcore; Donald Trump (Michael) creates Trump Elementary and nearly makes out with his daughter, Ivanka (Craig); Jamiele Hall (Lewis) gets hit on by Tank (Lee); an Amish woman (Davison) is the entertainment at a bachelor party; a man from India (Amir K) struggles with baseball announcer banter; Bernie Sanders (Michael) fumbles with his new SmartPhone.
#6 | 09/06/2016Episode 6
Anjelah Johnson gets too into her role as Bon Qui Qui; Sumbrella (Howard) gets into crime scene investigation; a Walking Dead cliffhanger stretches out the suspense to ridiculous levels; Bon Qui Qui (Johnson) returns to King Burger; Empire parody featuring Justin Timberlake (John Barinholtz), Adele (Davison), and Ariana Grande (Craig), trying to sign with Empire Records while putting up with the inside drama at the studio; Amir K rents out Adam Ray's, Carlie Craig's, and Michelle Ortiz's dressing rooms; a half-fish Kardashian sister (Davison) is introduced on Keeping Up with the Kardashians; a cooking show for stoners; a parody of $100,000 Pyramid; Bon Qui Qui plugs Homegirl Security.
#7 | 09/20/2016Episode 7
"Hermanos Bros. Law"; Carlie Craig gains telekinetic powers after binge-watching Stranger Things; a "good cop/bad cop" scenario where the "bad cop" (Ray) is a douchebag; Britney Spears (Craig) reveals five secrets about herself; Miss Swan (Alex Borstein) becomes a cartoon character; advertisers try to make guns more appealing to American consumers; the female cast members play Fuck, Marry, Kill and Chelsea Davison reveals that she'd do all three to Piotr Michael; Alex Borstein and Will Sasso talk about their time on MADtv where they had it tougher than the new cast; Piotr Michael's Morgan Freeman narrator voice annoys a hungover Adam Ray; an HBO First Look at celebrity auditions for The Michael McLeod (Sasso) and Jasmine Wayne-Wayne (Borstein) Story; Piotr Michael annoys Lyric Lewis.
#8 | 09/27/2016Episode 8
A crisis group centered on people who were injured while being saved by The Flash; Will Sasso and Bobby Lee play crazy ex-boyfriends; The Bachelor in Paradise shows indiscriminate hook-ups and a spreading herpes infection; Adam Ray needs a translator for the female cast members shortened slang; a wine steward (Ray) steals a man's girlfriend; Jeremy D. Howard reads his Yelp reviews; another installment of Iran's Hollywood Minute; Bernie Sanders (Michael) becomes KFC's new Colonel Sanders.
09/13/2008Season 14 - 17 episodes
09/15/2007Season 13 - 16 episodes
09/16/2006Season 12 - 22 episodes
09/17/2005Season 11 - 22 episodes
09/18/2004Season 10 - 23 episodes
09/13/2003Season 9 - 25 episodes
09/14/2002Season 8 - 25 episodes
09/22/2001Season 7 - 25 episodes
10/07/2000Season 6 - 30 episodes
09/25/1999Season 5 - 25 episodes
09/12/1998Season 4 - 25 episodes
09/20/1997Season 3 - 26 episodes
09/21/1996Season 2 - 23 episodes
10/14/1995Season 1 - 20 episodes
01/12/2016Specials - 32 episodes

Additional Information

Official websites:
Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on: "Mad" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Russian (RU)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 10/14/1995
Last episode released on: 09/27/2016
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Mad TV"

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:11976, Added: 05/13/2018, Last updated: 02/26/2024