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Part of the problem is that SNL now has to contend with serious network competition each week in the form of Mad TV, Fox's one-hour sketch comedy show based on the hit-or-miss satire of Mad magazine. Though there has rarely been a show that sounded less auspicious on paper, Mad TV has turned out to be a formidable opponent. It has yet to beat SNL in ratings, but it is gaining an edge among twenty-and thirtysomething males, a group perennially coveted by advertisers. It has also developed a following among teenagers who can be readily...
...main creative forces behind Mad TV, Fax Bahr and Adam Small, were writers on the sketch show In Living Color. Perhaps because Mad is free of the white Ivy League frat-boy image that has burdened the world of late-night network comedy--just last week John Pike, a late-night programming executive at cbs resigned over accusations that he had made racial slurs in a meeting with members of the comedy group the State--Mad TV has taken bigger risks tackling controversial racial issues. In a sketch that took a sharp knife to the culture of victimhood, Bryan Callen...
Other students have added the "seven dirty words" of George Carlin's comedy sketch to the signatures included at the end of their messages, following an off-the-cuff suggestion made some months ago by Simons as a way of combating Internet censorship...
...MILK? CAMPAIGN Unlike the print ads that force attractive celebrities to don unsightly white mustaches, the series of television spots promoting the joys of milk consumption are gems of sketch comedy. The best has a smug yuppie hit by a truck and beamed to another world replete with yummy cookies and a beckoning refrigerator stocked with milk. Heaven? Nope, all the containers are empty. Hell...
...wanted poster issued last week by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the suspected robber of Matthews Hall has been discredited and disgraced by a fabricated redesign. The altered version of the poster includes a caricature of a black male in place of the original police sketch and mocks the criminal's alias as "Afro-American...