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Revisiting Mad TV's 1999 skit “Pretty White Kids with Problems” [1]

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Date: 2022-12-16 15:50:30+00:00

This skit nailed it so hard.

MAD TV was kind of a treasure. The first season is supremely awkward because they actually tried to make it “MAD Magazine sketch comedy show” and I’m not sure how popular MAD was at the time still but the crossovers (spy vs spy) were just… meh. And the last season was “help our ratings plz!”

Personally I think MAD TV was overall funnier than SNL because it didn’t have to DO IT LIVE!!!1. Some of the jokes kinda don’t hold up or seem sexist/racist/ableist though. For instance, the “korean guy who can’t speak english” skits were a bit ha ha ha that wouldn’t be funny if a white person wrote it huh. The “disabled restaurant hostess” one was pretty yikes (and also seriously committed physical comedy.) Ms Swan was supposed to be Bjork but was more “white person playing Margaret Cho’s mom in full goblin mode”.

General favorites:

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