While not every skits funny, where some truly misfire, and aren't funny at all, depending on the viewer's sense of humor, the majority of the ones that succeed, are. Some of them are so smartly concocted, it's pure genius. This skit show based on that legendary magazine, takes digs at Michael Jackson (especially love those), Seagal, Stallone, Arnie, from a bunch of gifted comic actors who really know they're impersonations, some who have got it down to a tee, like Michael Mcdonald and Frank somebody, (love his John Madden digs) even though I've never seen the real guy, who at first was fictional. No celebrity is safe. My favorite though is that crazy Asian, acting great, Bobby Lee. This comedy sketch show is right out there. Saturday Night Live on crack.

I love snl and no one can beat them as the kings of late night sketch comedy, however mad TV comes close!They did a great job at creating a show that had it's own style and not just a rip off of snl. Unlike snl there's no celebrity guest host(except in season 2) rare musical guest and is only an hour, while snl's an hour and a half. I love snl but let's be honest, there's always only those few sketches that standout, the rest are just OK or fillers. But with mad TV there's no fillers, every sketch is hilarious! That's because the show always focus more on it's cast then snl, mad is able to let lose a lot more. And this show lives up to it's name, mad, because the writers and cast of comedians seem to be out of their minds with stuff they come up with. I love their recurring characters, vancome lady,white momma,Debra,Sturat & his mom, Loraine, Mrs.Swan and ubs guy! The show has nothing really to do with mad magazine, but occailly seeing Alfred E. Newman, spy vs. spy and Don Martins is a nice addition to the show. They had a great cast over the years, Nicole Sullivan, Areis Spears, Bobby Lee, Will Sasso, Mo Collins, Debra Wilson, Micheal Mcdonald Nicole Parker, Phil Lamar Keagan Micheal Keagan and etc. I love the original theme song," You're so crazy, You drive me wild!" "You are now watching Mad TV!". I wish it wasn't canceled but it had a great 14 season run. No doubt a classic series for the Fox network, LONG LIVE MAD TV!

I was flicking through the channels late one night and I saw this really funny sketch on the TV that had me in stitches.From that sketch I became addicted to MADtv and didn't miss a single episode.My favorite sketches are E-Harmony,Stuart,Nicole Parker,Barack Obama and all the other presidents of the USA they have had, Coach Hines and many others.I have seen nearly every episode ever made on MADtv.I watch youtube clips on the show and they never fail to make laugh non stop.I also catch the repeats they air on TV now the show is over and I feel sad the show has ended because it was sooooooooooo funny and was one of my favorite shows.10/10 is my rating

OK, so maybe "Mad TV" is the same sort of thing as "Saturday Night Live", but you still gotta love it! No matter what the situation is, they always find something great to do (including a recent skit where Kim Jong Il has the hots for Jennifer Love Hewitt during the Macy's Day Parade). Part of what it shows is that as long as our society - and the world in general - functions as it does, satire will always have a place.As for the cast, they're all quite hilarious. Bobby Lee and Frank Caliendo have got to be some of the funniest guys out there; if you haven't seen Caliendo's George W. Bush imitation, then you're really missing something! If I have to choose between this one and "SNL", I would probably go with the latter just because of it's early days. But you can't deny that this one provides its solid share of laughs. It's a modern TV classic.