Comment on 25 years ago, Mad TV was shitting on Steven Seagal before shitting on Steven Seagal was cool
trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Mad TV was like SNL, but funny.
Comment on 25 years ago, Mad TV was shitting on Steven Seagal before shitting on Steven Seagal was cool
trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Mad TV was like SNL, but funny.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
And “In Living Color” blows them both out of the water.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 months ago
In Living Color, Liquid Television, The Simpsons when it first came on. For some reason these little separate groupings of people with no connection at all to one another just all decided it was okay to show genius weird shit on TV, all of a sudden, when before that it was all just "Cheers" and bullshit and whatever.
TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A lot of it came from Fox being the young upstart network that wanted to make waves. They started green lighting shows that no other network would put on air and it let the writers cut loose and even make fun of Fox as a network. It made them cool and less stuffy, while letting them grab onto the Gen X/Millennial core audience group. Lots of other channels did the same thing and were successful, but rarely to the degree of late 80s - early 90s Fox.