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Pilots

Adult Swim Orders a Pilot from 'South Park's Pam Brady and 'MADtv's Arden Myrin

by | April 5th, 2013

Adult Swim has a new 11-minute cop comedy on the way. Deadline reports the network has greenlit a live-action pilot called Hole to Hole that'll be created by longtime South Park writer Pam Brady, who also penned Hamlet 2 and an early draft of Hot Rod, and will star MADtv alumnus Arden Myrin, who spent four seasons on the now-defunct Fox sketch show from 2005 to 2009 and is also a regular on Chelsea Lately. Hole to Hole is a parody of cheesy '80s cop shows and follows Ashleigh and Amelia Dangerhole, America’s sexiest billionaire detectives. If the show gets picked up, it'll be Adult Swim's fourth cop show [...]

History of Sketch Comedy

Looking Back at MADtv

by | March 3rd, 2011

MADtv was created by Fax Bahr and Adam Small, two writers from In Living Color, Fox's first sketch show. It's very easy to see MADtv as Fox's follow up to In Living Color. Both shows were directed (at least initially) towards black and Latino audiences, both made extensive use of crude and crass humor, both relied heavily on reoccurring characters and both were critically-derided.

A key difference was that In Living Color had the Wayans family behind it. While the show was frequently inconsistent, it was capable of some great sketches on race in America. That aspect was largely absent from MADtv. Instead the show mostly stuck to [...]

Lost Roles

The Lost Roles Interview with Eddie Pepitone

by | November 29th, 2012

Lost Roles is a weekly column exploring “what might have been” in movie and TV comedy as we take a different actor, writer, or comedian each week and examine the parts they turned down, wanted but didn't get, and the projects that fell apart altogether.

This week, I interviewed Eddie Pepitone, a much-loved stand-up comedian who's been performing for decades but has only recently seen his star starting to rise in the entertainment industry — an industry that he's awfully fond of lambasting in his act. A regular on Conan (where he plays a heckler), The Sarah Silverman Program (where he played a cook named "Eddie Pepitone"), and Marc [...]

Videolists

8 of MADtv's Most Memorable Characters

by | March 8th, 2012

For 14 seasons, Fox's MADtv served as the top sketch comedy show alternative to SNL and helped launch the careers of Artie Lange, Michael McDonald, Alex Borstein, Keegan Michael Key, Jordan Peele, and many others, not to mention former writers like David Wain, Patton Oswalt, SNL's Bryan Tucker, and Up All Night's Emily Spivey. While MADtv may be just another ghost of Sketch Shows Past since its cancellation in 2009, many of its memorable recurring characters are still on the internet waiting to be revisited. Here's a look at eight of them.

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