The story of how Amanda Byrnes got this show is amazing. Due to her popularity on ALL THAT, another Nick series, someone decided to make her the 13 year old start of her own show. Of course being on Nick, this appealed mostly to young teens.The thing is, the show actually is a half hour version of the variety format which dominated network television for years. Somehow, Amanda, all of 13 years old, makes it work. There are a variety of guests including some musical guests.Very often the skits are funny. Some of them parody the politics going on while the show ran, & there is a particularly biting episode with a parody of the 2000 election with some sharp slaps at both Al Gore & George Bush. Slapping Bush is easy, but this is one of the few hilariously funny slaps of Gore to be found anyplace.Nick has a run of pretty decent teen talent during the late 1990's & Amanda was one of the better discoveries.

I used to watch the nick show all that and i thought that Amanda's performance was really great. She was really funny and entertaining. But then All That lost all of it's original cast members (and got HORRIBLE new ones)so i was very disappointed. But then the Amanda show was on air and i was back to my same happy TV watching. This show is REALLY REALLY great and entertaining. I love the Penelope skits with Amanda acting as her number one fan. Also the one skit where all the students have super powers like the rhyming power. haha. also judge Trudy was hilarious. All around this show is amazingly funny and entertaining. Amanda Bynes is so sweet, talented and hilarious.I'm 16 and i still LOVE it. I just wish that it didn't go off air. I am ordering the dvds off line. This show is REALLY great in every way and i think that every young person or even older person should give this show a chance. It will always be one of my favorites.

No spoilers here. I'd watch Amanda 10 out of 10 over having to watch 1 night of Leno.She may not be the writer, but she pulls off the stunts, and characters just great. True she does have 1 or 2 annoying characters, but I think you have to take into account that is where the humor is. Judge Trudy spin off of Judge Judy. Judge Judy IS ANNOYING. What would Amanda do make her spoof appear as Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm ? Amanda's one Hollywood starlet worth watching. How many other Hollywood actresses still live with mom and dad ? I saw the Ellen show before the Amanda show, and to tell you the truth there's a great many similarities in their humor. But I much prefer Amanda. Still waiting to see more releases of the Amanda show

My six year old niece was watching the show and really enjoying it, so I sat down to watch it with her. I saw a "knock knock" skit in which the characters went around hitting people, including an old lady, with fish and laughing about it. I saw a skit in which a substitute teacher was fooled by the class into doing physically harmful things to himself while the class laughed. My niece is not allowed to watch the show any more.For what I saw of the show, there were some entertaining moments, but the humor was largely based on cruelty to others, not something television should be teaching young viewers.