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* [[Hey, ItsIt's That Guy!]] and [[Retroactive Recognition]] - Alex Borstein (the voice of Lois Griffin on ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'') was a ''[[Mad TV]]'' cast member. In fact, she had a news reporter character on ''MADtv'' who sounded like Tricia Takanawa and always addressed Diane ([[Nicole Sullivan (Creator)|Lawyer-Trabajo]], not Simmons) in her reports, even asking where Diane was in a news sketch after [[Nicole Sullivan (Creator)|Nicole Sullivan]] had left.
** [[Phil La MarrLaMarr]] also falls under this. Before he did voice acting in shows like ''[[Samurai Jack (Animation)|Samurai Jack]]'' (as the title character) and ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' (as Jamaican accountant Hermes Conrad), he was a cast member on ''MADtv'' (though before ''MADtv'', he had a small, but memorable role in ''[[Pulp Fiction (Film)|Pulp Fiction]]'' [which explains why in the show's parody called "Gump Fiction," [[Actor Allusion|LaMarr screamed]], [[I Just Shot Marvin in Thethe Face|"Not again!"]])
** Indeed, several of ''MADtv'''s actors have found successful careers in voice acting (with the possible exception of Taran Killam [''[[Mad TV]]'s'' youngest cast member at age 19], who, after a year on ''MADtv'' and eight years of bit roles and underground comedy, joined the cast of [[Saturday Night Live|another late-night, long-running sketch comedy show]]). Unfortunately, many of the later performers (like Crista Flanagan and Nicole Parker) have found themselves stuck in the [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] movies.
*** Jeff Richards did the same thing as Killam (stay one year on ''MADtv'' before crossing over to ''SNL''), only he joined ''SNL'' immediately after his tenure on ''MADtv''.
** Mo Collins is currently [[Recurring Character]] Joan Callamezzo on ''[[Parks and Recreation]]''. Joan has a somewhat antagonistic relationship with the main character Leslie Knope, played by [[Amy Poehler]]. So essentially, a ''MADtv'' alum is playing the rival of an ''SNL'' alum (how apt).
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Josh Meyers (a cast member on ''MADtv'' for the show's eighth and ninth seasons) is the younger brother of [[Saturday Night Live|Weekend Update]] anchor [[Seth Meyers]] in [[Real Life]].
* [[What Could Have Been]] - [[Seth MacfarlaneMacFarlane]] (the man behind ''Family Guy'', ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad!]]'', and ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'') was originally contracted to do cartoon shorts for this show, but backed out in favor of creating his own TV series for FOX. Had MacFarlane taken the offer, he would have created ''Family Guy'' for ''[[Mad TV]]'' before spinning it off into its own show, much like Matt Groening did with ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''.
 
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