Showing 1 - 6 of 6 articles tagged "MADtv"

• Posted Friday 2/26/21 at 4:03AM EST

  Original MADtv cast member Debra Wilson says she left the show in 2003 over pay disparity with less-tenured white male cast members

  "I was a tenured cast member from the beginning, from pilot, and people were coming in after me making more...

• Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 11:36PM EDT

  Nearly 20 shows have used blackface since 2000

  Slate has compiled all the instances of blackface on American television in the past 20 years -- not just on...

• Posted Thursday 9/19/19 at 3:54AM EDT

  SNL doesn't have a liberal bias -- it's always been a conservative show that favors the status quo

  Shane Gillis was reportedly hired as a conservative cast member to counter the belief that Saturday Night Live has a...

• Posted Wednesday 7/10/19 at 11:35PM EDT

  ABC's The Mad Magazine TV Special in 1973 was the first attempt to bring MAD Magazine to TV

  It was announced last week that the iconic magazine will stop publishing new material.

• Posted Thursday 3/28/19 at 6:41AM EDT

  Jordan Peele started envisioning himself as a mega-producer when MADtv wouldn't let him audition for SNL

  It was around the time that then-Senator Barack Obama was "becoming a thing," but MADtv refused to let him out...

• Posted Monday 3/05/18 at 8:45AM EST

  Jordan Peele's victory means MADtv and SNL are tied when it comes to Oscar-winning former writers and performers

  Peele, who starred on the Fox late-night sketch show for five seasons, became the first MADtv writer or performer to...