# SNL vs Mad TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-vs-mad-tv/156098 "2003-02-19T10:20:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tradnor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@Tradnor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tradnor)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-vs-mad-tv/156098/21 "2003-02-20T00:16:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by madmonk28 \* > \*\*I think Mad TV is funnier and they don’t beat characters to death week after week after week after week after etc. \*\* Are you watching the same show I am? I don’t catch Mad TV every week, but _every time_ I do I see a sketch with Stewie. Same with Ms. Swan before Alex Borstein left. And I can’t stand either of them. That said, SNL definitely relies too heavily on recurring characters as well. ---
**Author:** ![MaceMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@MaceMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaceMan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-vs-mad-tv/156098/22 "2003-02-20T04:56:00Z")
I can’t remember the last time I laughed at a sketch outside the news segments in SNL. The jokes are all pretty lame, and rarely clever. MadTV is a lot funnier–there are usually a few funny parts in every episode. I loved the Vancome lady and Ms Swan, and that shopping lady who picks up items and says “isn’t that cuute?? AUGGHHH” but never actually makes up her mind to purchase the item. I usually watch MadTV and switch to SNL every once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![plain\_jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@plain\_jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plain_jane)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-vs-mad-tv/156098/23 "2003-02-20T05:19:03Z")
I don’t know how people get any satisfaction or laughs out of SNL. I hate that show. The kids in my neighbourhood could put on a better show! On the other hand, Mad is great. I am sick of some of the recurring characters, though (like Ms Swan and Bunifa Latifa Whatever Whatever Jackson.) ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-vs-mad-tv/156098/24 "2003-02-20T19:35:55Z")
Hmm…well, on one hand, Mad TV usually has funnier sketchs…on the other hand, SNL has Tina Fey…but on the other hand, it usually only has Tina for about 10 minutes an episode, but I still gotta watch to see if she’ll make a rare outside-of-WU appearance. I think that Mad TV is funnier, but SNL is better. I do what probably most of America does - watches Mad TV for the first half hour and then switch over to SNL. I should really stop doing that, when I watch reruns on TNN I find Mad TV to be very funny, even during the 2nd half hour when nobody’s watching. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-vs-mad-tv/156098/25 "2003-02-20T19:58:21Z")
I also have to keep flipping over to ABC after Weekend Update, which has started showing _The Larry Sanders Show_ in Chicago. I can’t quite figure out the start time, though. Sometime after 11 CST. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-vs-mad-tv/156098.md?page=1)