# Mad T.V. was out of line tonight. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-t-v-was-out-of-line-tonight/108605 "2002-05-12T06:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-t-v-was-out-of-line-tonight/108605/21 "2002-05-14T19:27:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sam Stone \* > \*\*I know I speak for many people when I say… “Mad TV is still on the air?” \*\* I had much the same reaction when I first saw this thread. I’m genuiniely surprised–I ceased hearing about this show at **least** four or five years ago. The ratings can’t be that good. Why is it still on? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-t-v-was-out-of-line-tonight/108605/22 "2002-05-14T19:51:22Z")
_Mad TV_? Isn’t that the one that gave Jim Carrey his start? [sub]NB. The above is an attempt to ironically poke fun at the small-time nature of _MAD TV_. The writer is aware that Jim Carrey gained his first real fame with his work on the Wayans brothers’ _In Living Color_, and that even before that he starred in a movie called _Twice Bitten_, with Lauren Hutton, Phoebe Cates, and Cleavon Little.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-t-v-was-out-of-line-tonight/108605/23 "2002-05-14T19:58:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\* > Debra Wilson. Nicole Sullivan used to turn my crank, but yeah, Debra Wilson, too. \*\* Amen! Nicole Sullivan is one of those “oddy attractive” girls for me. She’s actually kind of funny looking, but something about her definitely does it for me. I’ve pretty much stopped watching the show since she left. Although I’d be at a loss to tell you why I ever watched it in the first place. It is singularly unfunny. Just about the only funny sketch I can remember ever seeing on it (okay, apart from the Spy vs. Spy cartoons, which they don’t do anymore) was the one in which Nicole and some other female cast member wake up in bed together after a night of drunken sex play. The one girl says, “Well, I guess we’re lesbians now.” Nicole protests that, no, she’s still straight and that was just a wild night’s fun. “I like penises. They make me smile.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cunnelatio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@cunnelatio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cunnelatio)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-t-v-was-out-of-line-tonight/108605/24 "2002-05-14T20:25:26Z")
Heh heh. If MadTV offends you, [absolutely under no circumstances should you order this](http://www.ucmovie.com). ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-t-v-was-out-of-line-tonight/108605/25 "2002-05-14T21:16:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kaylasdad99 \* > \*\*[sub]NB. The above is an attempt to ironically poke fun at the small-time nature of _MAD TV_. The writer is aware that Jim Carrey gained his first real fame with his work on the Wayans brothers’ _In Living Color_, and that even before that he starred in a movie called _Twice Bitten_, with Lauren Hutton, Phoebe Cates, and Cleavon Little.[/sub] \*\* Actually, it was _Once Bitten_, and it starred Karen Kopins rather than Phoebe Cates. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-t-v-was-out-of-line-tonight/108605/26 "2002-05-14T21:24:06Z")
Also, Carrey was in a TV series called “The Duck Factory.” **cunnelation** : Some of us occasionally read the board from work, and have employers who would highly disapprove of such sites. A stronger warning might have been appropriate there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-t-v-was-out-of-line-tonight/108605.md?page=1)