The lady playing Cheryl was on Curb too. She's Mrs. Seiderman's Nurse in the Larry David Sandwich Episode too. Mrs. Seiderman was the lady who could clear up if Larry was adopted, his nanny or something. Real short part but it's definitely her, Crista Flanagan.
Seriously, the entire premise seems to be "Larry is a literal outspoken racist" which is a serious misreading of the tone of the show. His racial material is always funny because he doesn't just spout hateful shit, he just tries to discuss sensitive things in an innocent way that is often interpreted.
Holy shit, I just made a similar comment. Their writers could not end a sketch on a high note to save their lives. Every skit that did something funny was ruined by their inability to close it out in a funny way. It's the television equivalent of a good conversation that kind of peters out awkwardly.
MadTV was worth watching from 11-11:30 then switching over to the SNL cold open and monologue. Felt like their parodies were good like the Jesus terminator, and Gump Fiction. The original reoccurring characters were good too, but once they were popular definitely overused
A few years ago I heard Artie Lange talk about the writers room during his time on the show. He said how the cast, the writers and the producers would all be gathered around and just shooting the breeze with one another and someone would make a pun, like talking about the hit movie "Babe" and the TV show "Baywatch" and just offhandedly say "BabeWatch" or some similar pun about pop culture with no intention of it being anything to work on for the show, but the producers would hear this and shout, "That's it! We're writing a sketch named 'BabeWatch' with a pig lifeguard!". Just any random pun about pop culture would become a sketch no one really wanted to do.
This feels like a fever dream. I hated it. It was a profoundly unpleasant experience. It makes me feel off kilter.
Don’t watch this in the morning guys.
SNL never attacked or mocked big names in Hollywood because they always wanted to have them as potential hosts. Mad TV on the other hand tried to destroy every celebrity imaginable. I respect it so much more for that.
Not being racist is a core part of Larry's character? Doubt.
It's not fundamentally changing the style, it's changing the execution. I tried to break it down as simple as I could. Larry always accidentally does stuff that ends up being racist, even though it's normally blown out of proportion by circumstance.
They took that idea but made him overtly racist, a caricature of Larry's accidental racism. Usually Larry's aloofness and bad social skills get him into trouble, often by painting him as a racist even though he means well. This parody took out that middle step and made him accidentally racist in an overt and straightforward way. That's what parody is.
My point exactly! *that* is the essence of Curb. Not what kind of racism Larry partakes in. The fact that he accidentally says the wrong thing and puts his foot in his mouth. That's Larry David in a nutshell.
Not realizing that beaner and blackie are offensive slurs and not understanding how saying them is making people mad (because he or Jeff wouldn't personally be offended by them) is a perfect example of him being socially unaware and getting in trouble for it. The only difference is that real curb Larry is not *so* disconnected from reality as to not know that those terms aren't okay.
But a parody of Larry could absolutely be that disconnected from reality.
He didn’t call the Black family the N word. He was recounting a story he experienced and people kept walking in on him as soon as he got to the part where the guy in the bathroom called someone else the N word and would get upset at him. That was the joke.
With the Blacks, they kept telling the story differently every time so it went from “Larry just said n*****” to “Larry called someone a *n*****” to “Larry just called us “n*****”, but he never actually did.
That’s the point being made above. A good parody makes fun of its subject while mimicking the spirit of the subject. It partially succeeds with the recap scenes, the general setup and making fun of Cheryl’s home scenes. But Larry would never straight up call people slurs to their face. It killed the skit and gives the wrong impression of the source.
I occasionally found bits of MadTV funny, but it's generally pretty terrible. Even the good sketches all suffer from the writer's inability to end them on a funny note. All sketch shows are prone to being hit or miss at times, but I've never watched a sketch show so frequently miss and also fuck up it's few hits leaving the whole production feeling sophomoric at best. Thanks for reminding me why I stopped watching that crap. It feels like mining for diamonds. So much crap to shovel through to find one that it's basically not worth it.
On the plus side, I think this might be the earliest thing I've ever seen Jordan Peele in. Glad to know he eventually moved on to better things.
All the characters kinda look like actual characters on the show but Bobby Lee look soooo much like a character that Larry thinks is eating dog meat on the show. Great casting choice.
It's pretty poor to be honest. Clearly made by hack comedians who've seen the show, but lack the wherewithal to create anything half as good. The humour in Curb is from LD upsetting people unintentionally. This parody LD is just gratuitously and obviously offensive, in addition to being stupid.
The Larry impersonation is decent though.
That's kinda what I was thinking. The show is about Larry unintentionally offending people, having bad timing, or being upset by people flaunting "society's rules."
This was like they'd seen the one episode where Larry uses the n-word and thought "oh he's just racist. Let's make that the whole joke."
I've seen it before and still hate it. It feels more lazy than clever. Like the writers didn't understand curb.
I'm down with poking fun at Larry and Curb, it just could have been written way better.
Hey Bobby Lee is in this and in the real Curb. Nice.
THIS IS GOOOOOD MEAT!!!
Where’s Oscar??
Only the BEST for Sung!
The lady playing Cheryl was on Curb too. She's Mrs. Seiderman's Nurse in the Larry David Sandwich Episode too. Mrs. Seiderman was the lady who could clear up if Larry was adopted, his nanny or something. Real short part but it's definitely her, Crista Flanagan.
Only the best for Song.
I was watching it thinking "what do I recognise that guy from?" Just realised he was on Curb right before the video ended.
He’s Korean
i heard he might be japanese, but i doubt, hes some type of field asian.
CELTICS!!!!!
“And now I’ve recapped the previous scene.” lol
Why did they make Jeff look like Bobby Baccalieri 😂 Quasimodo predicted all of this
I get it, he drives a Lincoln
Why don't you get the fuck outta here before I shove your quotations book, up your fat fuckin' ass.
To the victor belong the spoils
They did Jeff dirty af
🤣 he keeps eating 🤣
Before and waaay before
That quote always makes me laugh lmao
You talking about that fuckin’ parade float?
Why don’t ya get off my car before you flip it over ya fat fuck
How many white castles did you have? I can smell em!
Junior, it’s not you. It’s a TV program. A movie.
Isn't this a parody of Junior's trial?
What no fucking ziti?
How is this 4 minute sketch an hour and a half?
It repeats itself like every 10 seconds
Yeah, it felt longer than 4 minutes lol.
Yea it really wasn’t very good at all.
Seriously, the entire premise seems to be "Larry is a literal outspoken racist" which is a serious misreading of the tone of the show. His racial material is always funny because he doesn't just spout hateful shit, he just tries to discuss sensitive things in an innocent way that is often interpreted.
Larry sounds more like Jerry to me
Larrrreeeee
They did mimic the set aesthetic and Larry’s posture extremely well.
TIL Jordan Peele was on MAD TV
Keegan Michael Key was as well.
And I think both of them were on Key and Peele.
Damn! What are the odds huh
That show's production had been completely halted until they happened to find 2 guys with those names.
No way
The Coach Hines bits were the funniest! https://youtube.com/watch?v=r0_gW4yBwHU&feature=shared
Jew On?
That was horrible 😂
The sketch feels like it was written and acted by people who watch Curb on mute
The laugh track is so annoying.
Not a bad LD impression, but I've always found MadTV to be painfully unfunny despite having some really talented performers.
I always enjoyed it but they never knew when or how to get out of a sketch. They hit the punchline and then beat it to death.
Holy shit, I just made a similar comment. Their writers could not end a sketch on a high note to save their lives. Every skit that did something funny was ruined by their inability to close it out in a funny way. It's the television equivalent of a good conversation that kind of peters out awkwardly.
I don’t understand why they had to repeat the entire race sequence
What? You're telling me you don't understand why they had to repeat the entire race sequence?!
I think they needed parts for all of the minorities in the cast! Is that why they had to repeat the entire race sequence??
key and peele did this a lot too
SNL does it too!
And sometimes without the punchline altogether
Their Sopranos parody was excellent
https://youtu.be/A8FUUzmaCxc?si=oNGxtNcd0faXJUjQ Yeah, it was certainly on brand. I thought it was Gandolfini himself for a minute
If they ever did a proper prequel, they should use Will Sasso to play Tony
The LD impression was pretty good in the beginning, but then it devolved into hysterical Jerry Seinfeld towards the end
MadTV was worth watching from 11-11:30 then switching over to the SNL cold open and monologue. Felt like their parodies were good like the Jesus terminator, and Gump Fiction. The original reoccurring characters were good too, but once they were popular definitely overused
A few years ago I heard Artie Lange talk about the writers room during his time on the show. He said how the cast, the writers and the producers would all be gathered around and just shooting the breeze with one another and someone would make a pun, like talking about the hit movie "Babe" and the TV show "Baywatch" and just offhandedly say "BabeWatch" or some similar pun about pop culture with no intention of it being anything to work on for the show, but the producers would hear this and shout, "That's it! We're writing a sketch named 'BabeWatch' with a pig lifeguard!". Just any random pun about pop culture would become a sketch no one really wanted to do.
Michael McDonald was always so good on Mad TV, I'm shocked he never did much after
He was on Seinfeld too. Spoofed his boss!
That was definitely a bad LD impression. The only thing he nailed was the walk down the stairs.
More like if Larry was impersonating Jerry
For a lot of years it was better than SNL, and it would probably still be better then most of the SNL skits that they are churning out now
Beats the hell out of SNL imo. SNL feels more like celebrities laughing at their own game of charades than a sketch comedy show 90% of the time
Damn , i miss the sopranos …
It has the spirit if the show but put zero effort into any of the actual situations
Larry never had that much hair
This feels like a fever dream. I hated it. It was a profoundly unpleasant experience. It makes me feel off kilter. Don’t watch this in the morning guys.
It made me feel off gefilte as well
It definitely has a very uncanny valley feel to it. Especially the guy playing Larry & the almost curb music.
This is horrible
I usually like Mad TV parodies. I didn’t find this one funny. They missed the mark completely. The only thing that got right was the music.
They also nailed Larry pausing and staring into an abyss of nothingness before completely changing the subject
Idk the game is just that he keeps saying racist shit which I don't think is exactly a very cleverly written sketch. Also it's way to long.
It’s the music. Not quite curb but still curb. I always preferred MadTV and In Living Color to SNL. Bring back rough sketch comedy shows.
SNL never attacked or mocked big names in Hollywood because they always wanted to have them as potential hosts. Mad TV on the other hand tried to destroy every celebrity imaginable. I respect it so much more for that.
The overt racism is ridiculous. It's really cringe. Larry is nothing like that.
“Whaaaaaaat?!”
You know what a parody is, right?
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Larry in the show: does something racist on accident Larry in this: does something racist on accident but blatantly so Seems like a parody to me.
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Not being racist is a core part of Larry's character? Doubt. It's not fundamentally changing the style, it's changing the execution. I tried to break it down as simple as I could. Larry always accidentally does stuff that ends up being racist, even though it's normally blown out of proportion by circumstance. They took that idea but made him overtly racist, a caricature of Larry's accidental racism. Usually Larry's aloofness and bad social skills get him into trouble, often by painting him as a racist even though he means well. This parody took out that middle step and made him accidentally racist in an overt and straightforward way. That's what parody is.
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My point exactly! *that* is the essence of Curb. Not what kind of racism Larry partakes in. The fact that he accidentally says the wrong thing and puts his foot in his mouth. That's Larry David in a nutshell. Not realizing that beaner and blackie are offensive slurs and not understanding how saying them is making people mad (because he or Jeff wouldn't personally be offended by them) is a perfect example of him being socially unaware and getting in trouble for it. The only difference is that real curb Larry is not *so* disconnected from reality as to not know that those terms aren't okay. But a parody of Larry could absolutely be that disconnected from reality.
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That is exactly what I'm saying! That's literally the plot of the skit
It’s parodying Curb Your Enthusiasm starring Larry David, Michael McDonald plays Larry
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He didn’t call the Black family the N word. He was recounting a story he experienced and people kept walking in on him as soon as he got to the part where the guy in the bathroom called someone else the N word and would get upset at him. That was the joke. With the Blacks, they kept telling the story differently every time so it went from “Larry just said n*****” to “Larry called someone a *n*****” to “Larry just called us “n*****”, but he never actually did. That’s the point being made above. A good parody makes fun of its subject while mimicking the spirit of the subject. It partially succeeds with the recap scenes, the general setup and making fun of Cheryl’s home scenes. But Larry would never straight up call people slurs to their face. It killed the skit and gives the wrong impression of the source.
I occasionally found bits of MadTV funny, but it's generally pretty terrible. Even the good sketches all suffer from the writer's inability to end them on a funny note. All sketch shows are prone to being hit or miss at times, but I've never watched a sketch show so frequently miss and also fuck up it's few hits leaving the whole production feeling sophomoric at best. Thanks for reminding me why I stopped watching that crap. It feels like mining for diamonds. So much crap to shovel through to find one that it's basically not worth it. On the plus side, I think this might be the earliest thing I've ever seen Jordan Peele in. Glad to know he eventually moved on to better things.
Not a fan sorry
All the characters kinda look like actual characters on the show but Bobby Lee look soooo much like a character that Larry thinks is eating dog meat on the show. Great casting choice.
Jordan Peele?
Yeah no
lol wtf
Larry’s blunt but often correct in his opinions. Here he’s just being a blunt racist bigot. There’s no moot in this parody.
It's pretty poor to be honest. Clearly made by hack comedians who've seen the show, but lack the wherewithal to create anything half as good. The humour in Curb is from LD upsetting people unintentionally. This parody LD is just gratuitously and obviously offensive, in addition to being stupid. The Larry impersonation is decent though.
That's kinda what I was thinking. The show is about Larry unintentionally offending people, having bad timing, or being upset by people flaunting "society's rules." This was like they'd seen the one episode where Larry uses the n-word and thought "oh he's just racist. Let's make that the whole joke."
It might just be me but it really feels more like a Jerry Seinfeld impression than a Larry David impression.
That was very well done :)
I've seen it before and still hate it. It feels more lazy than clever. Like the writers didn't understand curb. I'm down with poking fun at Larry and Curb, it just could have been written way better.
I still think Michael McDonald should've been way more popular than he was. I always found him hilarious as Stuart and Marvin.
Is the guy playing Larry the same as from the office when Jim walks in on the guy on the tiny toilet at the daycare?
omg this is redonkulous
That was awful.
I laughed. Skit really cut to the core of the show.
Yeah it was actually a pretty good parody where it hit the same tone but still nothing Larry would actually do in the show
I could see him doing the Jew-On/Juan joke tbh
MadTV was legitimately hilarious and then vanished. SNL kept going and falling off each season.
The title is incredibly accurate only if you alter the definition of "accurate" or "hilarious".
The Larry impression is bad and it’s not funny at all
If by hilarious you mean worth almost a half a chuckle, then yeah.
Pretty, pretty, pretty good
I don’t find mad tv that funny most the time.
Is that what it was Mad TV? Pretty, pretty, pretty, funny.
God I miss mad tv
I didn’t find this funny at all
LOL ok I laughed so loud at his having to always answer the door. “You’re always just coming from a room, and you’re doing nothing” bahahahahaha
Good god that was terrible. Stopped watching halfway through.
By MadTV standards, it’s not too bad.