Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #288864 in DVD
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish

From the Back Cover
"MADtv" is a late night sketch-comedy show based on the humor of the popular "Mad" magazine. Material includes celebrity impersonations, music video, commercial, movie, and TV show parodies, recurring characters, musical guests, and the occasional mock cartoons. The show competes against another popular sketch-comedy show, the long-running Saturday Night Live, but the show is aimed at a younger audience. With the show's revolving-door cast of talented, comedic actors and numerous Emmy Award nominations, "MADtv" is truly a success story.

Customer Reviews

It does live Saturday nights better than that other show
By the late 1990's, SNL had become too overconfident in it's capabilities. Because that show assumed people would tune in regardless, the sketches became mundane.

Enter MAD TV.

Inspired by the long-running humor magazine of the same name, this show does sketch comedy better than the forerunner. The cast of fresh faces look genuinely happy to be working on the show, resulting in excellent sketches for the studio and home viewing audience.

By far and away, Nicole Sullivan delievers awesome performances in her sketches. Her characters are so hillarious you are honestly not sure how much of it was based on real people.

The best comedy show on TV
I started watching this show many years ago while still in college after hearing my roommate laugh like a crazy man. I suddenly started taping all episodes and boy am I happy to see it on DVD. I have been requesting it to the studio for years and I'm glad all those emails weren't wasted. I used to be a big fan of SNL but through the years I just fell it got more and more boring and I couldn't watch it anymore.
Many of my favorite actors on MadTV have left but the show hasn't lost its vibe. It's impossible not to laugh at Lorraine Swanson, Miss Swan, Will Sasso's interpretation of Steven Seagal and many more memorable characters.
I even been on the set of MadTV once and was invited on the taping of a weird discussion panel. It was an amazing experince, got to meet many of the actors and they were all nice and pleasant to be with, especially Mo Collins, she rocks! She's one of the nicest and sweet people you can find in Hollywood.
I really can't wait to have all the DVD's in my collection.

Finally
Like I said, finally! The show is starting to get on DVD. This is season one as you may already know and its impossible to miss the begining of the best comedy-sketch-show there is which started back in 1995. It includes the very first glimpse of unforgetabble characters like the Vancome Lady (Nicole Sullivan), along with extra footage, bloopers, the best parodies in all 9 years of broadcasting, make that 10... and never before seen sketches. This is a DVD you must have if you love comedy. Better than SNL I dare to say.