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A [[Sketch Comedy]] show that aired on FOX on Saturday nights at 11:00 Eastern Standard Time <ref>a full 30 minutes before ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', a fact that was lampshaded on a "MADtv" cold opening sketch where George W. Bush [played by Will Sasso] calls out ''SNL'''s Chris Kattan for his movie "Corky Romano"</ref>. It was on the air for 14 seasons, running from 1995 to 2009 on the FOX Network. The show was [[Inspired By|based on]] [[Mad Magazine]] [[In Name Only|despite having next to nothing to do with it]] after the third season.
The show, after serving 14 years as ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s rival, was canceled by FOX in 2009, citing low ratings. There have been claims that the show will seek new life on cable TV, though, as of 2012, the only evidence of a ''[[Mad TV]]'' revival on cable is in the form of a [[Cartoon Network]] animated sketch show called ''[[MAD (Animation)|MAD]]'', which, unlike its live-action predecessor, is a little more faithful to the source material and is set up as a 15-minute show [[What Do You Mean
''[[Mad TV]]'' aired in reruns on [[Comedy Central]] and the Canadian sister channel Comedy Network until 2010.
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* [[Fun With Acronyms]] - The '''K'''appa '''K'''appa '''K'''appa Sorority
* [[Gayngster]]: The topic of a sketch in which two gangsters are trying to drive each other out of town, but one of them is freaked out when the other makes repeated sexual advances at him during their fight. At the end it's revealed that both of them are gay. The first gangster was just concerned that the other was still involved with another guy.
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* [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That]] - [[Biggus Dickus|Rusty Miller]]
* [[Kill the Poor]] - One sketch had the mayor of a town addressing the press to reveal his new plan for dealing with the poor. He would give them all virtual reality helmets that would show them everything they ever wanted, allowing them to live out their lives in peace. The test subject they put one on sees a beautiful woman in the distance, holding a steak dinner and a bottle of booze. He runs towards her, which leads him into traffic where he is killed by an oncoming truck. It concludes with the mayor declaring "And that's how we'll eliminate the homeless ... problem."
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