Which show was funnier: SNL, Mad TV or Chappelle's Show?

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  1. daca

    daca Currently on Double Secret Probation

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    The original SNL Belushi led cast was great but, Chappelle by miles.

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  2. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    Unfair comparison. Chappelle Show took a LOT longer to make than the other two. That certainly gave them more time to polish sketches and ensure everything is as perfect as can be prior to broadcasting it on TV.
     
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  3. lesterbangs

    lesterbangs Forum Resident

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    SNL had a ton of great moments over the years, but Chappelles Show packed such a punch in the short time it was on.

    This was during my high school years, so it was very impactful on me.
     
  4. Galley

    Galley Forum Resident

    When MADtv debuted, I stopped watching SNL, and haven’t had any desire to watch it since.
     
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  5. Roland Stone

    Roland Stone Offending Member

    Wasn't Jim Carrey's Fire Marshall Bill on IN LIVING COLOR?

    Another great sketch show was the short-lived BEN STILLER SHOW.

    However, as a 50-something, I am required to inform everyone that the greatest skit show ever was actually SCTV . . .
     
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  6. Exile On My Street

    Exile On My Street Senior Member

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    Yes, this was already established like a page ago. o_O
     
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  7. Matthew Tate

    Matthew Tate Forum Resident

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    chapelle, key and peele , madtv and in living color were all better than SNL taken as a whole
     
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  8. bekayne

    bekayne Senior Member

    SCTV better than all of them
     
  9. wgriel

    wgriel Forum Resident

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    Yes! SCTV was hilarious - much better than any of the other skit shows imo.
     
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  10. MikeManaic61

    MikeManaic61 Forum Resident

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    Glad it ended when it did though. Rather have a small finite well produced sketches than burning out with nothing left to give.
     
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  11. GuildX700

    GuildX700 Forum Resident

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    None of those 3.
     
  12. ohnothimagen

    ohnothimagen "Live music is better!"

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    Chappelle's Show, no question- simply based on the "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" segments alone!
     
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  13. lightbulb

    lightbulb Not the Brightest of the Bunch

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    Well, yes, including the always hilarious SCTV alters the conversation. They were one of the best comedy ensembles ever!!!

    ...Oh, what’s that you say...?

    Monty Python ....?!?!
     
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  14. Chris Schoen

    Chris Schoen Rock 'n Roll !!!

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    Martin Short was the funniest on SNL (imo) - Interestingly, he did not approve a "best of" dvd collection of his skits from SNL,
    as most of the other cast members did.
     
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  15. Matthew Tate

    Matthew Tate Forum Resident

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    maybe he felt being on there for such a short time didn't warrant a best of dvd
     
  16. Michael Rose

    Michael Rose Forum Resident

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    SNL should be 60 mins. Keep the two musical segments and weekend update in full but trim rid themselves of the last 5 or 6 sketches.
     
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  17. lightbulb

    lightbulb Not the Brightest of the Bunch

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    IIRC, when SNL was at it’s best with a talented, seasoned, creative cast, it seemed like the last 15 to 20 minutes of the show would reveal skits that would be an interesting mix of spontaneous, underrehearsed, surrealistic, bizarre creativity that was refreshing, if not funny.
     
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  18. My choices in order, with some qualifiers, is this.
    Chappelle Show: usually funny for most of the show, sometimes the whole show. Always pushing the limits and finding new ways to do so successfully.
    Mad TV: Pretty funny most of the time, with some really great skits here and there.
    SNL: But only the first 5 or so years. After that it is here and there at best, with a downward spiral and a mushroom cloud at the bottom.

    A good show, but not on your list, "Kids in the Hall". Quite a lot like Mad TV, mixed with old SNL.
     
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  19. Michael Rose

    Michael Rose Forum Resident

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    You are correct, if I could amend my comment, I would drop the word *last. But still drop about 5 sketches
     
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  20. lightbulb

    lightbulb Not the Brightest of the Bunch

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    To amend my comment -
    When the SNL cast is - ahem - less than stellar, obviously painfully not improv-seasoned talents, then many of the skits betray those flaws, and the jokes just fall flat, without any redeeming qualities, without even evoking a chuckle.

    More so a wince.
     
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  21. RoyalScam

    RoyalScam Luckless Pedestrian

    For CONSISTENT laughs? Like barely a boring moment? Chappelle hands down for me.

    The thing about SNL is that it's been incredibly inconsistent ever since its launch. No doubt that the original cast was brilliant, but the memories of those shows are often much better than the reality. I've spent years trying to get through all of the episodes from the first 5 seasons all the way through...I just can't get through more than one or two at a time without being largely bored to death. Those compilations make the show seem so much better.
     
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  22. Chris Schoen

    Chris Schoen Rock 'n Roll !!!

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    Could be a dvd just on his "Ed Grimley" character.
     
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  23. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    Stuart was funny the first couple of times.....then they drove the skit into the ground.

    But I still say "Look what I can do!" whenever I do something stupid.
     
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  24. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    It's really not fair to compare 42 years of SNL (with over an hour of live content in every episode) to 2 1/2 seasons of Chappelle (which had just 22 minutes of mostly pre-recorded content in each show).
     
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  25. Roland Stone

    Roland Stone Offending Member

    I must have watched a different MAD-TV than many here. It was pretty mediocre most of the time, sorta like the older FRIDAYS. And like FRIDAYS, I would watch it because nothing else was on.

    IN LIVING COLOR and BEN STILLER SHOW were much better, on the same network. Can't recall if they were all running concurrently, though.
     
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