Greatest 'MAD TV' Sketches of All Time! What's your favorite!

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Debra as Whitney Houston, brilliant!

It's a Football Thing

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Coffee Twins

Will Sasso as the gay plumber.

Fast Food Order

50s Diner

The Hostess

Most anything with Stephnie Weir, but especially her Dorothy Lanier stuff. Such a delightful trainwreck.

Your New Neighbors

Spishak Excuses!! Excuses!! Excuses!! 98

Race Ghost

Nicole Sullivan is so under-rated.

I think she's hilarious. Not Jan Hooks hilarious, but very funny all the same.

The Booty Tree!

Aries Spears as Missy Elliott.

Miss Swan, in anything, but particularly the gay bar sketch.

The "Moulin Rouge" send-up.

Prehistoric Glamazon Huntress A.D.

Stephnie shines again here. It takes some real talent to intentionally deliver your lines like the worst actress in the world.

Wandy Newman America's song

MADtv Yvonne Criddle Peoples Court

The "Son of Dolemite" sketches. Everyone already looks hilarious, the dialogue and action are over the top..

Lorraine at the beach.

American Idol

Michael McCloud and Jasmine Wayne-Wayne

Nicole Sullivan singing the redneck patriotic songs

Hay hot stud! Are you wearin' that cologne called MONEY?

Lorraine

The QVC Plus-Size fashion show

The 2002 Diane Sawyer Interview With Whitney Houston!

Oprah's Fat Cam!!!!!

Anne Heche creeped out by Ellen!

Any of the Lillian Verner Game Show sketches but this one in particular

"i'm only happy when I'M DRUNK!!!!!!!"

Stuart = Barron

Whitney Houston ICON. Debra, Aries, Mo, and Alex are all brilliant here.

Any of the Cabana Chat sketches.

The Vagina Monologues!

Anything with Stephanie Weir....but especially Dot Goddard.

This is nowhere near greatest but "Shaq and the Super Lakers" as a cheap cartoon cuts me up, especially Kobe flying back and forth twelve feet in the air with the ball passing the hoop.

A brilliant show. At least half a dozen of the performers should have had A-list careers.

What happened?

R40 I completely agree! I am clueless why some stars make it big and others do not. Perplexing.

Will Sasso's "Paul Timberman Workshop" sketches damn-near killed me..

Debrah Wilson's tattoos covering her entire body are why she has no career.

Sure signs of mental instability, so no one would hire her.

What's Deborah Wilson ever done to you, r43?

i know, I know--"pointless bitchery" and all that.

I'm explaining how her bizarrely mutilated body is why her career never took off after Mad TV like expected.

She looks seriously fucked up. That came across very well on the 2016 Mad TV revival when she was in candid scenes with her freakish tattooed chest and arms.

My GUESS is that Hollywood also saw/sees her as a mentally disturbed, self-multilating freak.

Dr. Phil on plastic surgery.

R30, it's too bad Andrew Bowen was on for only one season; he was cute.

The Lorraine sketch in the supermarket with the mini-cups. "God, that's cute!" I believe that may have been the first Lorraine sketch.

[quote] I'm explaining how her bizarrely mutilated body is why her career never took off after Mad TV like expected.

Um Hm now explain why the careers of most everyone else did not take off, post Mad TV.

Andrew Bowen was so hot!

For some reason Will Sasso as a drunk Kenny Rogers made me bust up every time. I think it was the voice.

20 Years Ago!!!

R51 me too!

oh dang wrong show :/

SNL didn't hire Wilson because she was too old.

The reason their careers never took off is because FOX never hooked them up. SNL has a lot of connections; producers, writers all know some one.

I used to watch Medium and could not stop laughing at how accurate this was.

Jack the UBS guy on Speed.

A superlative talented cast! Love them! Weir and Wilson in anything, sexy Poolie!

I love the skits that showed the original endings to wizard oz and sound of music.."didn't you hear Rolf, we are Nazis now!"

Deborah Wilson: Whitney Screws Up The Classics!

Was it MAD TV that had the skit about a dead Martha Raye and her gay husband?

"Just one more toe knuckle for Jesus!"

Not one of the "Greatest" for sure...

Yvoone Criddle

Extremely Butch Lesbian Coffeehouse

I don't know the specific sketch, but Phil Lamar's manic guy always made me laugh hared. I just found it hilarious. I always enjoyed him. Did he ever do much after MadTV?

laugh hard

Beyoncé / Destiny's Child parody

Lida and Melina meet Ricky Martin

Inkblots

R67, a ton of voicework. He's the voice of Samurai Jack, was the voice of Wilt of "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" and did a lot of superhero voicework. Most famously, he's none other than Hermes on Futurama.

While their careers may not have matched SNL, Nicole Sullivan, Ike Barinholtz, Alex Borstein, Michael McDonald and Mo Collins are recognizable faces. Key and Peele are, of course, their own entity .

There were a few hotties on the show. Bryan Callen's pool boy.

Craig Anton would come out shirtless in a towel and rant about what he hated. He had a tight, lean torso with the perfect amount of hair on it. He was always greased up too.

Andrew Bowen was hot, and basically remained as such.

Nelson Ascencio was pocket sized, but had a decent bod. Here he is as Ricky Martin.

MadTV had several actresses whom they'd use rather than just one they'd feature each week while the others kinda languished, they had multiple black cast members whom they didn't just use when they needed a black character and if an actor wasn't working out, they were gone pretty quickly.

Love this skit that takes a twist or two.

The Sopranos on PAX TV

Maury & Connie's All-Star Christmas Special

O.J. Simpson interview bloopers

Will Sasso as Elvis

Thanks, R72

I miss this so much. Not that reboot but the original.

Will Sasso is a cutie.

Televised yoga class.

This skit is an exemplar of your typical American Frau! And Michael McDonald just this magical quality about him. It wouldn't be the same without him.

Bill Clinton town meeting

Bernard Shaw Special Report

The alternate endings to "The Sound of Music."

"Gretl, turn to metal!"

This one was always one of my favorites.

Stephanie could commit to a skit like no other.

I forgot how funny this show could be.

Leona Campbell, everybody's favorite passive-aggressive old biddy

Bobby Lee's character that says: " Give it to me hot and sloppy!"

R67, that's Jack, the UBS guy. He made me laugh so hard, my stomach hurt.

Switcheroo!

Honey Dipper Dan

Gangsta Shop Quartet

Just For Lebians

The A & F dudes were awesome

Madonna 'Music' parody

This one always made me laugh. Love Mo Collins trying not to crack up.

Mo was my absolute favorite performer on this show.

One thing that always surprised me about the show was how all the guys all had tight bodies. Even Michael McDonald (who is over 6'3") was ripped.

R104, well not Artie Lange, Will Sasso or Bobby Lee. Sasso made up for it in sheer talent. Jordan Peele was much thinner when he was on and Keegan Michael Key was just slightly thicker.

Requisite Key and Peele. More of a Jordan Peele spotlight.

Ike and Mo were so good here.

This clip didn't come from the show itself, but it illustrates how incredibly well Debra Wilson impersonates Oprah.

She was being interviewed at the 2008 Genesis Awards and was asked what Oprah might say if she were there. Her response (extemporaneous, I think) is fucking brilliant.

R108 agreed

Michael McDonald did a hilarious audio interview several years ago for Salon where he recounted coaching Faye Dunaway in comedy for a movie audition. Unfortunately, it's not up anymore, but he really nailed her voice and imperious mannerisms.

For r110:

Thanks, r111!

Gump Fiction

The very fist sketch of the series and set the trend for the show.

50's Diner

THANK YOU, R100! I forgot about the Abercrombie and Fitch sketches. Hilarious.

I love the sketch with Jordan Peele as Kilbrain.

Cindy Delmont

The Brightling Greeting Card Company

Hollywood Squares

Gay Dating - sweet, but twisted.

Is Will Sasso gay? I always thought he might be but being overweight nobody here ever speculated about his sex life.

Mad TV had quite a few gay cast members over the years - Michael McDonald, Paul Vogt, Eric Price and probably others (Ron Pederson? Nelson Ascensio?) I swear I had read that Orlando Jones had come out but I see he's married to a woman so unless he came out as bi I must be remembering wrong. No idea if any of the female cast members were gay - Alex Borstein would have been my guess but if she is she's not out. And I wouldn't be shocked if Debra Wilson had dipped her toe in the lady pool.

Borstein is married IRL to the guy who played Jackson on "Gilmore Girls." His proposal was part of a MadTV closing credits.

Andrew Bowen was very cute and still looks good but he didn't have the comic chops for the show so he was out after a season. I saw him in a horror movie recently, not a gorefest; he was the main character and he was good in it. But his Nick Cage on Mad TV blew.

Bowen did a great Keanu Reeves but so do a lot of comedians.

R120 This and some of the other gay skits (also included in this thread) seem so incredibly dated today. Pretending to be gay to feel women up? That was all the rage back in the day, wasn't it?

Of course, those skits served their purpose quite well at the time, that is to make people more at ease with homosexuality. But I still can't help but cringe watching them today.

R121 Taran Killam was very cute and cubby as a youngster and has gayface now. I always wondered about him. Wasn't he one of the few MAD hires to cross over to SNL and meet more success there? (and who did he blow to accomplish that. exactly?)

But I jest, he is talented. He perfectly lampooned Alex Band (lead singer of the 00s pop duo The Calling) in the TRL skits. The MADTv pop music parodies are criminally unknown to fans of sketch comedy nowadays, imo (and the SNL parodies overrated, but that probably goes without saying on this thread).

The MTV send-ups were amazing, too. I have never forgotten Nicole Sullivan as both Britney and Justin.

Don't make me break my foot off in yo ass!

This sketch was made for DL. Even has a lead named Muriel, who strokes out several times. So wrong, but so funny.

R121, I've always just assumed that Debra Wilson is a Womon of the Isle.

Macaroni Salad

The DL hausfrau come to life.

And somebody else wrote this who must post on DL- lonely Carol at the Hallmark Store.

Cloret at the Airport. 2:42 PLEASE PROCEED TO SUCURRITY!!

Bon Qui Qui at Burger King. SUCURRITY! She need to go! Need to go!

Nicole Randall Johnson as Ka-Son, the customer service rep with an attitude. There were 4 skits: Cable TV, Valentine's day order, Club, Airport.

Ka-Son @ the airport

Ka-Son @ Cable TV Service

Ka-Son @ Valentine's Day Order

Forgot the link....Ka-Son @ Valentines Day Order

This one was from In Living Color, not MAD TV. But soooo funny!

Ms. Borstein certainly can successfully do sapphic.

Cooking For One, with the incredible Nicole Sullivan

I loved the annual "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"movie parodies they did the first three seasons. Their last one was my favorite--a dead-on spoof of "Apocalypse Now"

[quote]SNL didn't hire Wilson because she was too old.

Debra Wilson and Cheri Oteri are around the same age. Oteri joined SNL the same year that MadTV premiered.

[quote]Taran Killam was very cute and cubby as a youngster and has gayface now. I always wondered about him. Wasn't he one of the few MAD hires to cross over to SNL and meet more success there? (and who did he blow to accomplish that. exactly?)

Taran and Jeff Richards were the only two former MadTV cast members to go over to SNL. I think Jeff Richards was only on SNL for a couple of years.

Cloret!!!

Stuart and the baby

Pretty White Kids With Problems

I swear Datalounge must have evolved out of these sketches. Literally!

Mike Pence on his honeymoon

R132 'Taj-ay' and the arson story were gold, and I love that husband 'Rick' just no-sold the whole thing. What kind of man must he be to just shrug all that CRAZINESS off?

That sketch is kind of how I picture the Ellen Show through my cynical filter. Am I a cunt for that?

News photo

Debra Wilson as Whitney AND Mariah!

I guess nobody here has favorite sketches from the CW MadTV reboot.

Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Will Sasso's Lance Bass still cracks me up.

Great. Now we have a Ka-Son troll. WTF is that? Welcome to DL, Ka-Son.

God crashes an awards show. The first minute of two of the sketch is missing.

Andrew Bowen was great as Keanu Reeves. I saw him in a commercial a few weeks ago.

The Whitney and Bobby sketches with Debra Wilson and Aries Spears, brilliant!

The Abercrombie sketches, hysterical. Josh Meyers was great in those.

Anything with Key & Peele.

Debra and Nicole as the two young chola girls who were always on the prowl for hot men: "I would do him! Would YOU do him?"

Too many to list.

Mad TV was brilliant. I really miss it.

One of the funniest. The Foundation for Unwed Mothers.

Lesbian meets her girlfriend's idiot parents

Women's Murder Club- parody of the short-lived series.

[quote] Will Sasso's Lance Bass still cracks me up.

He's great at it. Despite physically resembling Joey Fatone more closely, Will is perfect as Lance. He balances his impression so well that it hits exactly between endearingly shy and distantly creepy.

I also love Catherine Zeta-Jones calling Michael at home and getting a whore on the line in that sketch.

Meat Heaven

R156 Will's Lance once met the real Lance in an interview for ON THE LINE. It was excruciating.

"Here's my...Bootylicious....co-star....Emmanuelle Chi--....Cri--....Chriqui."

MADTv's entire NSYNC material was great.

The best one is their 'movie', where Lance 'goes to a war' (but somehow doesn't miss the tour), poor JC ends up paralysed and Chris fights agents in the Matrix to save the President. Best moments: Lance's deadpanned plea, "don't die in me, Man"; Joey's DL-worthy "don't touch me, I'm on drugs and alcohol!"; and Justin butch slapping his girlfriend even though she's 'the bomb-diggity' and his 'boo' (Nicole nails Justin).

You like? I LIKE!

Was Bass still officially closeted at the time of that skit, R165?

What is so great about the MADTV Bass is that the joke wasn't about his sexuality or even his popstardom. The funny element was that this entertainer, supposed to be warm & accessible by profession at the very least, is always checked out emotionally and seems like he's on another planet. I remember chuckling when I heard about his space exploit for this reason - it's not laughable because he's a pop star and not a NASA member, it's funny because of course that's what a vague, distant, uncomfortably-incarnated guy (like Lance was back then) would with his time & money.

I wonder also if the MADTV impression was a little sideswipe at fundie xtianity and how it wipes out your personality. Maybe once you taste Jesus, no earthly distraction can possibly excite or delight you.

MadTV parody of MTV's Fanatic

The Snuggle Bear Horror

R126 I crush hard on younger Taran with that blond curtain hair, but not now. Huh.

Is that Will Sasso’s real voice? Bc goddamn.

Yes, Leona Campbell is the best. "oh my goodnessssss"

one of my faves

This is TOO funny......

MadTV KILLED Sat Night Live for years. It was actually funny stuff and much more diverse.

SNL has slowly made its way back but they still have a lot of really unfunny cast members. Almost all of MadTV were solid - but hardly any of them went on to a longer career. Sad.

Quick note - Stephnie Weir was a big improv person in Chicago in the late 90's. She was amazing and was awesome on the show. She was extremely thin - like something's wrong here - thin. But on MadTV she looked heavier and wasn't noticeably thin - in fact looked heavier than her costars.

TV thin = emaciated.

Looking back, Mad TV had a lot of great funny women - Debra Wilson, Stephanie Weir, Nicole Sullivan, Mo Collins, Alex Borstein. All of them were better than a lot of the SNL cast members.

Thats because Lorne Michaels and the douchebros he hires are extremely misogynistic.

Debra Wilson was on "Superior Donuts" Monday night, it's a CBS sitcom. She's now completely bald, looked much thinner and was covered in tattoos, the tats basically stopped right in the middle of her neck! I saw her on the MadTV re-boot a few months ago, she was a guest. I was shocked when I saw all her tats, even her legs were covered with them.

Anyone know what's going on with her, is it drugs, an illness?? Debra was amazing on MadTV, she was funny, was a good actress and she could sing, then poof, she was gone.

She's retarded

Any Miss Swan sketch - Alex Borstein was brilliant! Also Stephanie Weir - so funny - where is she now?