[rozwado1]

We're talking SNL v. MadTV over the last 5 years or so (when did MadTV begin?). This includes Ferrel on SNL as well as the crap they have now. Which do you like better overall?

[olePigeon]

I pick d: Python (Monty)

SNL used to be funny. MadTV is just stupid.

[spatterson]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
I pick d: Python (Monty)

Or AbFab

[demograph68]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
I pick d: Python (Monty)

"Drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait 'til lunchtime."

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
We're talking SNL v. MadTV over the last 5 years or so (when did MadTV begin?). This includes Ferrel on SNL as well as the crap they have now. Which do you like better overall?

If you include Ferrel and Fallon, I'd say SNL. Without them, they're both at the same level of unfunnyness, each with their moments.

[MaxPower2k3]

SNL 20 years ago

[Secret__Police]

The first two years of MADTV were great. The show went kinda downhill for a couple years after Artie Lange was kicked off the show.

[Xeo]

mad tv used to be funny their first couple seasons. It's gotten pretty dumb the last few years. They lost a lot of funny people.

I've never really been a SNL fan.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by Xeo:
mad tv used to be funny their first couple seasons. It's gotten pretty dumb the last few years.

Mad TV was always dumb, I think your taste in television is what improved.

[fireside]

i don't really like either currently but SNL has been funnier.

[demograph68]

Originally posted by fireside:
i don't really like either currently but SNL has been funnier.

It was, back when Bill Murray was still on it. But time is relative. SNL is relative only to when MadTV first started, like in the same time period that is. I thought Nicole Sullivan was great during their first few seasons. SNL had some crappy writers at that time, I think.

[ManOfSteal]

I prefer the o'skoo...

[BasketofPuppies]

Originally posted by MaxPower2k3:
SNL 20 years ago

It was almost cancelled after the 1984 - 1985 season.

SNL 1975 - 1979, 1986 - 1991

[ThisGuy]

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MadTV

[Nebagakid]

Mad TV is just so so so so BAD

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
We're talking SNL v. MadTV over the last 5 years or so (when did MadTV begin?). This includes Ferrel on SNL as well as the crap they have now. Which do you like better overall?

There was NOTHING funnier than MadTV during the Brian Callan, Orlando Jones, Artie Lange, Phil Lanier, Cabana Chat lady, Nicole Sullivan, Debra Wilson days and there was another young white guy who was absolutely INSPIRED (I believe he was responsible for many of their filmed skits and really biting parodies).

Side-splitting, tearsrunningdownmyface FUNNY!

But the early days of SNL were also GREAT!

Something interesting to do is watch the OLD shows now and you get a sense of how humor and entertainment has changed over the years. Some of their best stuff wasn't even supposed to be funny. They'd go for touching or tender, frightening or thought provoking sometimes.

And some of their humorous bits wouldn't even be allowed these days I'd bet.

My old girlfriend went to work as an assistant to Dick Ebersol, the Exceutive Producer during the bad era, when their best players were an undiscovered Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo and Julia Louise Dreyfuss although they didn't use her as well as Seinfeld later did.

The last five years of SNL have been like bazeboll, (beddy, beddy good to me!).

Jimmy Fallon and the pot smoking guy always play well off each other.

Will Ferrell grew on me. I didn't much like him at first but, yeah, he's great.

Tina Fey is such a cool chick! You can just tell!

They caught lightning in a bottle a few years ago with the 'more tamborine" skit with Christopher Walken, Walken's original "The Continental" skit and a Christmastime classic they threw together at the VERY last minute to eat up time when they were running short.

Fallon, the pot smoker guy, Tracy Morgan and Chris Kattan standing on stage, holding a cheezy little electronic organ, a pair of maracas and a guitar and they sang the pot guy's original Xmas song, "I Wish It Was Christmas Today," or something like that.

It was GREAAT!!!

But in subsequent years they tried to re-enact it without the same charm or magic of the first time.

Oh well. Thanks for prompting a walk down memory lane.

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally posted by aberdeenwriter:
There was NOTHING funnier than MadTV during the Brian Callan, Orlando Jones, Artie Lange, Phil Lanier, Cabana Chat lady, Nicole Sullivan, Debra Wilson days and there was another young white guy who was absolutely INSPIRED (I believe he was responsible for many of their filmed skits and really biting parodies).

Side-splitting, tearsrunningdownmyface FUNNY!

But the early days of SNL were also GREAT!

Something interesting to do is watch the OLD shows now and you get a sense of how humor and entertainment has changed over the years. Some of their best stuff wasn't even supposed to be funny. They'd go for touching or tender, frightening or thought provoking sometimes.

And some of their humorous bits wouldn't even be allowed these days I'd bet.

My old girlfriend went to work as an assistant to Dick Ebersol, the Exceutive Producer during the bad era, when their best players were an undiscovered Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo and Julia Louise Dreyfuss although they didn't use her as well as Seinfeld later did.

The last five years of SNL have been like bazeboll, (beddy, beddy good to me!).

Jimmy Fallon and the pot smoking guy always play well off each other.

Will Ferrell grew on me. I didn't much like him at first but, yeah, he's great.

Tina Fey is such a cool chick! You can just tell!

They caught lightning in a bottle a few years ago with the 'more tamborine" skit with Christopher Walken, Walken's original "The Continental" skit and a Christmastime classic they threw together at the VERY last minute to eat up time when they were running short.

Fallon, the pot smoker guy, Tracy Morgan and Chris Kattan standing on stage, holding a cheezy little electronic organ, a pair of maracas and a guitar and they sang the pot guy's original Xmas song, "I Wish It Was Christmas Today," or something like that.

It was GREAAT!!!

But in subsequent years they tried to re-enact it without the same charm or magic of the first time.

Oh well. Thanks for prompting a walk down memory lane.

The pot smoker guy was Horatio Sanz!

[MrNike]

Both have their moments (and if you're talking about Ferrell in recent SNL then you can't ignore Michael McDonald on MAD) but I would say SNL just from the pop culture power and the guest star/host factor but agreed that both have equally taken a tumble, but both some how still provide a good laugh . . . . . occasionally.


� First post, man that felt good!

[sideus]

Neither.

[ManOfSteal]

Originally posted by MrNike:
� First post, man that felt good!

Welcome to the MacNN Forums!

Are you Phil Knight?

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by manofsteal:
Welcome to the MacNN Forums!

Are you Phil Knight?

Michael Jordan?

[Truepop]

MadTV started in like 1995 so in nine years? SNL.

[nredman]

both really suck, i'd pick SNL if i had to

[ringo]

The only part of SNL I try to catch anymore is weekend update. The rest of the show is usually stale and their musical guests are often hard to listen to live. MadTV's not much better, they've been beating the same characters into the ground for years (SNL does this too, a lot).

[ironknee]

i like SNL from the past 5 years...trying to get into mad

[teaforone]

Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
It was almost cancelled after the 1984 - 1985 season.

SNL 1975 - 1979, 1986 - 1991

But you're missing the Eddie Murphy years...