"Maroon 5 is band you're going to be hearing a lot of for many years to come!"

Tim Meadows is the most underrated guy in the history of the show. He's a genius of deadpan deliverary, and was very versatile, but he just doesn't have a fanbase for whatever reason. I think he's brilliant, one of the best ever.

He's not well-apreaciated because, apart from a few notable exceptions (Ferrell being the biggest), the SNL "star" players are the least apropriate sketch comedians. The best sketch comedy is based around ensemble and ever since Chevy Chase got huge after the first season, the show has become more a star factory than a sucessful sketch show and it's to the point where they're hiring schmucks like Jimmy Fallon who don't even pretend to have a sense of ensemble.

MAD TV's cast is comprised entirely of those people from high school who weren't really funny but talked loud and made fart noises so they won "class clown" at the end of the year. That, and they always bring in lame b-rate celebrities to help with sketches, and then kiss their asses.

That's not true at all. MadTV is fucking awful, but they've generally hired really talented people who did great work in Chicago. I have no idea how the show is so terrible, but the problem isn't the cast.

I think I liked it so much because I was younger. I still really like it though.

I would say that the problem isn't lack of presence or charisma on the part of the cast, but maybe that they're more geared toward stage than TV. The way both Mad TV and SNL farm out talent hurts the improv/sketch ensemble process. I think the people Mad TV hires are more cognizant of this, so instead of ending up with tons of people climbing all over each other to become celebrities, they churn out a watered down in-between version of good sketch and SNL, which is the opposite side of the same coin.

The only Mad TV person to ever make it to SNL is Jeff Richards, who is a boring guy with a lot of bad characters, and has recently been fired. It's pretty obvious why he didn't fit in.

"Hey, honey, remember that stomach virus I got that nearly killed me? I'll never forget that." Jim Breuer is that kind of memorable.

by the by Mad TV wretched and makes me wretch when I watch it (though they occasionally fall into a good sketch) they equate yelling and repeating annoying quirks w/comedy. also the sketch w/the tall guy that has rosy cheek make up and pretends hes a little kid ('stuart' I think) is awful but they continue to do a sketch w//the character almost every show!

Sigh.

Actually, that makes me feel a lot better. Sophie Muller's one of my favorite videos and I hated the idea that the worst image I'd ever seen was her idea.

Beautifully worded! Cheers!

videomakers.

This is definitely my least favorite flavor of current pop music: sensitive-dude pop-rock.

this sums up much of the appeal of both singles for me, actually