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Season 14, Episode 17 - "MADtv Gives Back"

16 May, 2009

Fred Willard hosts "MADtv Gives Back" in the series finale, which features alumni Alex Borstein, Mo Collins, Will Sasso and Debra Wilson Skelton reprising their popular characters.

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Premiere: October 14, 1995

Type: TV Show

Genres/Tags: TV-Comedy

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Previously, MADtv had opening and closing monologues from the cast. Episodes from recent seasons have monologues performed in character. MADtv parodies other television shows such as the long-running game show The Price Is Right, with actors playing Bob Barker and Rod Roddy. It also spoofs celebrities like Wayne Brady, Kenny Rogers, and John Madden. MADtv is a successor to FOX's previous sketch comedy program In Living Color. Fax Bahr and Adam Small were writers for In Living Color. Also, some MADtv sketches are based on ones from In Living Color. Comparisons with NBC's Saturday Night Live are inevitable, given the two shows' similar formats and similar airtimes on Saturday night (MADtv runs from 11:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., while SNL runs from 11:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., Eastern/Pacific time). Having lasted now for more than a decade (13 years to SNL's 34), MADtv is the longest-running SNL competitor to date.

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