Tom said:

It was a mock TV ad for "Butt Out Jeans." It was definitely funny, but for a good impersonation, Phil Lamaar kicked Jamie's ass.

FunkMistress said:

there was this girl on the set of one of my videos, and i swear to god, i almost kissed her.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Damn, is MADTV out on DVD yet? I've got to get the first couple of seasons. They were golden.

P.S. LMAO @ "Gimme Stuff"

FunkMistress said:

the first (or the first two) season(s) are out now.

And yeah, I was disappointed in the Prince Christmas Show. I didn't think Fred Armisen did a very good Prince impersonation. I completely agree with folks that the best part were the obscure name-checks. That gave me a little thrill. And DeNiro on the purple snow-blower was kind of funny. But overall: it was the first "Prince Show" I'd seen; I'd been dying to see one, and this one disappointed me.

FunkMistress said:

Yeah the first two seasons were the best. I can honestly say that the cast with Phil Lamar, Deborah Wilson, Nicole Sullivan, Orlando Jones, and Artie Shaw was the fu-king best. They had this skit called "Cabana Chat???" and the two characters (the lady host, and the dancing boy) were great too. Those first years were cutting edge.

SNL saw it's greatest years from during the John Belushi/Dan Akroyd time. The absolute best years were definitly the Eddie Murphy years 1980-1984. For some reason Lorne Michaels hates Eddie Murphy, but in fact it was Eddie that did save that show from cancellation by having every kid in the world sneaking and staying up late to get a glimpse of "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood"..Oh yeah Eddie was a big Prince fan.
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lmas said:

oh man, "cabana chat"...i loved those skits....you liiiiike? i liiiiike...ahhhhh!!!!

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FunkMistress said:

You mean Artie Lange?
Artie's now on the Howard Stern show, and he's about the best part of the show.

SnowQueen said:

Well clearly she got it together just in time to sing her butt off!!!!

okaypimpn said:

Ugh. I thought they were awful.

intha916 said:

IMO, MadTV has gone down since Nicole Sullivan ("Vancome Lady"), Alex Borestein ("Miss Swan"), Debra Wilson ("Whitney Houston") and Mo Collins ("Trina") left the show.

FunkMistress said:

You're right!

The other two were awful, but Beyonce a.k.a. "The Destiny Child" was awesome!

okaypimpn said:

I thought after the whole "Ashley-Gate" dabaucle they'd go back to making people perform LIVE... as in "Saturday Night LIVE".

I think the girls were doing some lead lines on live mic's but the BGs and most of the instrumentation was totally pre-recorded.

That really p*sses me off.

okaypimpn said:

But do y'all remember the episode of Malcolm and Eddie when Eddie did his Prince imitation? That was gold!

GaryMF said:

Yeah, they were singing their lead parts live, but background vocals were straight up DAT. Their lip-syncing wasn't even believable.

It was very good

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

those skits are funny, but that lady character is such a rip-off of justin bond's "kiki" character that it's not even right. but i guess if you're playing to the whole country on TV, you can get away with stealing a character that's only really well known in new york city....still...for shame!!!

...that said, i still gotta admit i cackle wildly at the cabana chat skits anyway.

I saw it. I like when they do this.

intha916 said:

they have because michael mcdonald did a movie r 2 and came back but thats all i remember




oh yeah orlando jones did movies

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

yeah both seasons r out

i think fred armisen does a great job with the prince show sketches, but then again i just think fred a. is cool like that in general - he could do a skit where he's eating a bowl of cottage cheese and i'd probably find it wildly entertaining.

the skit blew.....and so did the entire show

lovemachine said:

Yeah I get a bigger laugh out of the wondermask portion than my family ever could.

WHY WASN'T BEYONCE HERSELF (THE MUSICAL GUEST) IN THE SKIT???? It would have been funny even if they had Beyonce play someone else then interact with the Maya "Beyonce"

the real beyonce probably threw a prissy-fit at the very idea of being in the skit.

Anxiety said:

no y would she?

CinisterCee said:

I guess people don't bother reading through the other comments on a thread before posting.

As I stated above, a (reliable) person on an SNL board I read regularly who works on the show said Beyonce was originally supposed to be in the Prince Show but was sick all week and didn't show for rehearsals so was then cut out of the sketch.

SnowQueen said:

Ahh that's the only message I skipped. How 'bout gettin' an avatar?

CinisterCee said:

I had an avatar up until this afternoon when I deleted it to upload a new one.

Do you only read comments made by people with an avatar?

SnowQueen said:

Well this isn't the first time that I ended up skippin' a non-avie post.

CinisterCee said:

Well I have an avatar and I had already suggested the same thing you did! And this was before the person with the insdie scoop on SNL did.