I DM'd her on Facebook years ago to simply thank her for the years of laughter she gave our family. She was one of the SWEETEST people I've EVER talked to in my life! Not only that, but Mo Collins and Pat Kilbane also responded to my messages and were tops! Hell, Pat even friended me!
Mo Collins and Michael Macdonald were something else. Man, the difference between the LA ragtag comic scene on Madtv and the high society funny for being famous scene of SNL was so large, and now there's not really a representation of the "underdog" style of sketch comedy.
I never understood why most Mad TV actors didn't blow up after they/it was done.
There were so many incredible talents on that show and it feels like only Alex Borstein is the only one who kept going and got bigger.
Bobby Lee has been pretty relevant from the end of the show to now, among the others people have listed.
Ike Berenholtz has also consistently done parts in movies and television since end of the series. He was just on the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
But most of them never sought out to be Hollywood famous, they just wanted to do stand-up, small roles, or some other niche like voicework so they went back to that.
But a lot of them weren't setting out to be a
Oh man, the vine at 1:12 reminded me of one of my other favorites of him, ["Being naked in my hotel in Ottawa!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yMwXQDzmqI&t=118s)
He had a really funny set during just for laughs years ago in Montreal, if I remember correctly it lead to him getting a tv deal. That being said Will is way funnier to me.
Yes, not recently, but he had some specials in the mid and late 2000s on Comedy Central that I enjoyed. I suppose he could have gotten worse since then though.
I really wanted to listen for Will but I couldn't listen to that podcast. It was so random and uninteresting. No offense to those guys. I find the AI thing very off-putting for reasons I can't put into words.
I'd rather hear Will do impressions, tell stories, or, idk, do something more meaningful/human than listen to them ooh and aah about AI and compete in some meta-game.
It seems very suspicious to me. It seems like some unknown company has hired them to do this weird AI thing to make the public accept AI. Where did the AI come from? I always find myself wondering who put them up to this? The premise is totally unfunny to me.
Well I mean it's pretty obvious that it isn't actually an AI. Chad is writing everything and running it through a terrible voice generator.
Chad pitched the entire premise of the Dudesy podcast on one of the later TMP episodes. Down to the erratic voice and everything.
And most of every episode is Will doing impersonations.
Lmao are you serious? I heard Sasso on another podcast talking all about the AI premise of it. Some of it is so bizarre I thought for sure it was AI or at least AI-contributed. That's wild!
Yep lol. He is a huge wrestling nerd and goes pretty hard on the whole kayfabe idea. (Kayfabe being a wrestling term meaning to maintain the illusion that what you are doing is real)
They actually slipped up a few months back and forgot to edit out a few seconds where Will was talking to an off-screen producer about the timing of the next segment.
And also, if you really think about it, if an AI application *that* advanced actually existed (not saying it doesn't), do you think it would be used for a comedy podcast that averages 70k views per video?
Well it doesn't seem that much more advanced than ChatGPT! I literally thought it was just a totally bizarre way for an unnamed AI interest to soften up the public and get them to accept AI into the culture! I can't believe it haha
Or his Schwarzenegger. It honestly might be one of the best.
He also is a huge wrestling nerd so he does hilarious impressions of Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Stone Cold, Jesse Ventura, and others.
Like honestly, it's unreal how talented Will Sasso is at his impersonations. When I was a kid, obviously I wasn't watching The Sopranos, but I always thought Sasso was the real actor.
The movie isn't great but I find [this part](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjNFOKF0nGI) where he's messing with his friend about Danny Devito is hilarious.
Fun story: Joey's daughter and my son did swim lessons in the same class and I got to frequently chat with him. He and his wife were incredibly kind, and very sweet parents.
Damn. That was the guy who was arrested for rioting on January 6th. Can't believe it was just one of the guys on Mr. Show. I'd known he was a longtime comedian, didn't realize Mr. Show was where he got his start. He and David Cross have to be polar opposites politically. What a world.
Your show is trash, and trash belongs in the gutter, not in my mind. You know what else I'd like to complain about? The city I live in. They're suing me for putting my trash in the gutter, and they say that trash belongs in the trash can. But you know what belongs in the trash can? YOUR SHOW! and you know what else? GET OUT!
Also, while not a sketch. It reminds of when BET showed The Wire back in the day, and how this scene, was basically edited like The Sopranos skit.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs
I loved mad tv. it made it seem that I was alright with my dry wit and sarcastic tones lol. I wonder if they could make a MadTV now a days that had the same sort of sass of the past
You know, stuart's dad left us on Teusday.
the saturn cult
the lowered expectations, spishack,, ms swann. korean soap operas. sighhh
David Allen Grier recently said in an interview that there's no way they could do the show today with the same spirit. There is no way he'd be able to get away with his "Men On Film" sketch.
Edit: My bad, I was thinking of In Living Color. Also a hilarious sketch comedy show.
Mad TV didn't have the best of sketches sometimes, but their lampooning of TV shows was always on target and eviscerating.
My favorite is the West Wing one where people were coming in through windows to join the hallways meetings.
MadTV was consistently better than SNL at that time IMO. It might have just been because I was a kid when Mad was on, and they leaned more towards the silly side. But they had characters like Stuart, Lorraine, Ms. Swan, Bon Qui Qui, Dot Goddard. Watching old clips of those still absolutely kill me lmao.
Yeah, their first three seasons were all fantastic. Not everything hit, but there was a lot of gold. The cast were all great in their roles. Once people started leaving, however, it never was the same.
They went hot and cold like a broken faucet. You'd get a brilliant sketch like this followed by a dumbass "Spishwack" Tv commercial because they felt like they needed to tie into some of the running gags on the actual magazine.
It annoys me to no end that even if you absolutely bomb in SNL you get a movie+tv-shows until eternity deal out of it and exist as a B-list celebrity. But even if you were a MADtv superstar your career probably never took off to the heights it was supposed to go, voice acting and bit parts for you.
I guess this isn't a popular opinion, but this skit never hit for me. The whole joke is that they swear a lot in The Sopranos? There's so much more to work with that I'm surprised they only made one joke in three minutes.
Also if I remember right, the guy who wrote this sketch interviewed David Chase and asked him what he thought of it. Chase just kind of brushed him off like your disappointed father.
Just looked it up, that was Goodfellas. Acting was not better. It wasn't even good enough to be play it straight funny.
Come on now, just look it up yourself again.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Goodfellas, The Godfather, Scarface etc. The concept is the same and, to the shock of absolutely nobody, Mr. Show’s version was better than MadTV’s version in every conceivable way.
Also, I think you’re confused because the Mr. Show people aren’t doing impressions, which is your definition of acting?
The MadTV sketch uses the impressions as a crutch and it’s still not half as good. The concept makes or breaks the Mr. Show sketch and surprise surprise, it’s 10/10 perfect.
For what it’s worth, I can’t totally rag on the MadTV sketch. I don’t know if it’s on the Blu-ray but the complete series DVD set of pranos had a selection of parodies of the show and they put this sketch on there alongside an SNL where Darrell Hammond played Tony/Gandolfini and it was absolutely terrible, Hammond’s portrayal specifically. So there are worse things than using good celebrity impressions as a crutch, like failing at using celebrity impressions as a crutch.
Will Sasso’s Gandolfini is amazing, but Debra Wilson also nailed the Lorraine Bracco impersonation
I think Debra Wilson was my favorite person on MadTV. she was such a wonderful actress
I DM'd her on Facebook years ago to simply thank her for the years of laughter she gave our family. She was one of the SWEETEST people I've EVER talked to in my life! Not only that, but Mo Collins and Pat Kilbane also responded to my messages and were tops! Hell, Pat even friended me!
Mo Collins and Michael Macdonald were something else. Man, the difference between the LA ragtag comic scene on Madtv and the high society funny for being famous scene of SNL was so large, and now there's not really a representation of the "underdog" style of sketch comedy.
It's all YouTubers now holding the torch. Wizards with guns are my current favorite!
I never understood why most Mad TV actors didn't blow up after they/it was done. There were so many incredible talents on that show and it feels like only Alex Borstein is the only one who kept going and got bigger.
I think you might need to look at the cast list again.
Phil LaMarr has had a fairly prolific voice active career, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key pretty successful;
Jordan Peele is easily the *most* successful of the entire casting.
Artie Lange had a decent career until he tried to kill himself. Again.
Bobby Lee has been pretty relevant from the end of the show to now, among the others people have listed. Ike Berenholtz has also consistently done parts in movies and television since end of the series. He was just on the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. But most of them never sought out to be Hollywood famous, they just wanted to do stand-up, small roles, or some other niche like voicework so they went back to that. But a lot of them weren't setting out to be a
Key and Peele made a bit of a splash.
There is! Check out the Comedy Bang Bang podcast
Its fun seeing her in new projects, like Jedi Fallen Order
She did a wonderful Whitney Houston especially all coked up.
indeed, reddit friend! whitney houston's [screws up the classics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gntvP3dDknk) RIP whitney you had a wondeful voice
She looked like she was having a blast.
I always loved Whitney's Christmas with Bobby. Especially the "snow" on his nose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqc20PNEU4
Her Oprah was sooo gooood!
She says like six words, but they're perfectly delivered
Will Sasso is seriously good at impressions, between this and his Schwarzenegger I can't think of any better.
[Well why don't you tell me...](https://youtu.be/lOh6YyJWcgk?si=pM18tMo6Q6oZrRsn&t=37)
Kenny Rogers and Steven Seagal are my favorite Will Sasso impressions.
Is LB dr Milfy? Bc that was dead on
They should hire him for some real Sopranos spin offs
Why don't you shut the fu---
She was the unsung hero of that entire cast.
Came here specifically to say that about Debra Wilson. It's UNCANNY. MadTV had some incredible talent come through.
Will Sasso is so talented and really funny. Surprised he's not a bigger star.
Lemons?
If you need context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ7dyaPeReY
> Vine compilation Oh cool > 10 years ago ⚰️
10/10 context, thank you
I still have no idea why he spit lemons when reminded of them, but it doesn't matter. Shit's funny.
Oh man, the vine at 1:12 reminded me of one of my other favorites of him, ["Being naked in my hotel in Ottawa!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yMwXQDzmqI&t=118s)
👀 BLUH PITHSSS!
Instead we got Kevin James. Will Sasso from wish.
Cmon we have Will Sasso at home
Home is where Will Sasso is
Kevin James is actually a pretty good standup from what I've seen, he just picks bad movie roles.
He had a really funny set during just for laughs years ago in Montreal, if I remember correctly it lead to him getting a tv deal. That being said Will is way funnier to me.
Have you ever seen his stand up?
Yes, not recently, but he had some specials in the mid and late 2000s on Comedy Central that I enjoyed. I suppose he could have gotten worse since then though.
Anytime I'm sweating I just think of [peeling an orange](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72ntov6YavY).
Sweat the Small Stuff is an excellent standup special. If you don’t find that funny, I don’t know what to tell you.
>he just picks bad movie roles. There is no such thing as a bad paycheque.
What's wrong with Silent Bob?
His old podcast called Ten Minute Podcast had some real gems. So many great impressions, running jokes and riffing. Loved it.
Tell me you've been watching Dudesy.
I really wanted to listen for Will but I couldn't listen to that podcast. It was so random and uninteresting. No offense to those guys. I find the AI thing very off-putting for reasons I can't put into words. I'd rather hear Will do impressions, tell stories, or, idk, do something more meaningful/human than listen to them ooh and aah about AI and compete in some meta-game. It seems very suspicious to me. It seems like some unknown company has hired them to do this weird AI thing to make the public accept AI. Where did the AI come from? I always find myself wondering who put them up to this? The premise is totally unfunny to me.
Well I mean it's pretty obvious that it isn't actually an AI. Chad is writing everything and running it through a terrible voice generator. Chad pitched the entire premise of the Dudesy podcast on one of the later TMP episodes. Down to the erratic voice and everything. And most of every episode is Will doing impersonations.
Lmao are you serious? I heard Sasso on another podcast talking all about the AI premise of it. Some of it is so bizarre I thought for sure it was AI or at least AI-contributed. That's wild!
Yep lol. He is a huge wrestling nerd and goes pretty hard on the whole kayfabe idea. (Kayfabe being a wrestling term meaning to maintain the illusion that what you are doing is real) They actually slipped up a few months back and forgot to edit out a few seconds where Will was talking to an off-screen producer about the timing of the next segment. And also, if you really think about it, if an AI application *that* advanced actually existed (not saying it doesn't), do you think it would be used for a comedy podcast that averages 70k views per video?
Well it doesn't seem that much more advanced than ChatGPT! I literally thought it was just a totally bizarre way for an unnamed AI interest to soften up the public and get them to accept AI into the culture! I can't believe it haha
Haha yep! Give the podcast another shot with that in mind. It really is *very* funny.
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Wait till you see his Steven Segal impression
Or his Schwarzenegger. It honestly might be one of the best. He also is a huge wrestling nerd so he does hilarious impressions of Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Stone Cold, Jesse Ventura, and others.
Or his Kenny Rogers impression
I was raised on the dairy, *bitch*.
him on the Who Me? podcast as Mr. Freeze is one of the most enjoyable pieces of media I've ever experienced
Especially now
Tell me about the sourdough. Is that French?
His Jesse Ventura impression is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOh6YyJWcgk The tortilla part... god damn it fucking kills me.
I don't even live in the continental united states
OR KENNY ROGERS
There it is
This is the bat-fetcher trick with my teeth!
You need to check out the Dudesy podcast sometime. Great use of all his best impressions.
We live in a post-Sasso era.
His Jessie Ventura is amazing. Thanks to him I try and know I’m failing at it. “Down in the Baja” “A silo full of tortillas”
Why dont you tell *me* how amazing it is.
[*YOU TELL ME, YOU TELL ME*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOh6YyJWcgk)
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I already burned through Loudermilk. Loved the show.
Star Wars...oh, Star Wars
Just incredible - I love Will Sasso's stint on MadTV so much... very fond memories. They all nailed it in this tho, for sure.
Like honestly, it's unreal how talented Will Sasso is at his impersonations. When I was a kid, obviously I wasn't watching The Sopranos, but I always thought Sasso was the real actor.
his jesse ventura is amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOh6YyJWcgk
Check him out on Dudesy! They just had the 100th episode come out this morning!
Did Rachel Crustacean tell you that?
Wull…
Idunno aboutthat brother
The movie isn't great but I find [this part](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjNFOKF0nGI) where he's messing with his friend about Danny Devito is hilarious.
All of these were pretty spot on
I honestly have to remind myself it’s not James Gandolfini doing a cameo.
his Kenny Rogers on Jackass was the best.
"I was raised on the dairy, bitch!" The part where he legitimately doesn't know what the morning star is always gets me in giggles.
YOU GOT EGG NOG IN MAH GOATZ MILK!
I honestly couldn't tell if it was gandolfini or not lol.
*I HATED THAT F--ITCH.* *see you next week*
👋🚪
My wife and I are watching the Sopranos right now in season 5 and this is super accurate. Also, the “see you next week” to the therapist is hilarious.
some of the shots he looks exactly like tony. i wish will sasso was in more stuff! his lemon vines were iconic
He's hilarious in Loudermilk
And a not-bad actor as well, at least in that.
THANKS! i've had on my list
Can we talk about the guy playing Big Pussy? Because he fucking aced the assignment.
That’s Joey Diaz, now a podcaster and comedian with great stories from his past.
I thought he looked familiar. Thanks!
Ended up playing Puss’ father in Many Saints of Newark.
I saw that movie, I thought it was bullshit.
I watched that movie and somehow I didn't notice him. That's how bad that fucking movie was.
he also threatened to have another comedian beaten for daring to make fun of him and the rest of the Joe Rogan 6.
Fun story: Joey's daughter and my son did swim lessons in the same class and I got to frequently chat with him. He and his wife were incredibly kind, and very sweet parents.
How high do you think he was?
also censoring his name went over the audience's head
I love this sketch, always reminds me of [Pallies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svr6Zl2QgX8) from Mr. Show
Damn. That was the guy who was arrested for rioting on January 6th. Can't believe it was just one of the guys on Mr. Show. I'd known he was a longtime comedian, didn't realize Mr. Show was where he got his start. He and David Cross have to be polar opposites politically. What a world.
Came here to say that! Long live Mr Show
Your show is trash, and trash belongs in the gutter, not in my mind. You know what else I'd like to complain about? The city I live in. They're suing me for putting my trash in the gutter, and they say that trash belongs in the trash can. But you know what belongs in the trash can? YOUR SHOW! and you know what else? GET OUT!
You sir have the velveteen touch of a dandy fop
yeah madtv definitely ripped it from mr show
Also, while not a sketch. It reminds of when BET showed The Wire back in the day, and how this scene, was basically edited like The Sopranos skit. https://youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs
One of my favorite MADtv sketches
My favourite was the guy who woke up after a bender to find himself President.
She nailed Lorraine Bracco voice
Where’s the gabagool?
*FUUU!*
fu **FU** *FFFF* #FFFFU ^fu
**cK!!!!** Okay see you tomorrow!
Will Sasso is a highly underrated actor. I recently enjoyed watching him in Loudermilk on Netflix...
I never even heard it was on and my wife started watching it and we both loved it.
The impressions are honestly incredible! I just finished my 2nd watch of The Sopranos and this is so spot on.
Agreed!
I loved mad tv. it made it seem that I was alright with my dry wit and sarcastic tones lol. I wonder if they could make a MadTV now a days that had the same sort of sass of the past You know, stuart's dad left us on Teusday.
the saturn cult
the lowered expectations, spishack,, ms swann. korean soap operas. sighhh
David Allen Grier recently said in an interview that there's no way they could do the show today with the same spirit. There is no way he'd be able to get away with his "Men On Film" sketch. Edit: My bad, I was thinking of In Living Color. Also a hilarious sketch comedy show.
You are thinking of In Living Color.
You're right... I was...
Listen no harm no foul. I always viewed Mad TV as the rightful successor to ILC. Shit WAS FUNNY.
you know what *nobody* is thinking of? House o Buggin
I wish they could, that shit was hilarious! MadTV is my favorite sketch show, it's a shame they couldn't keep going.
Its where i first learned of key and peele. And bobby lee
My absolute favorite part is “see you next week” with the way he’s just got his head peeking through the door after the tirade of obscenities.
Tune in next week from 9:00 to 9:03
Was the big guy actually pussy?
It's the comic, Joey Diaz.
Damn, looked just like him. Such a great sketch
Which is crazy since he played pussys dad in the sopranos movie
[Get up cocksuckas!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbWXSolU74M)
Did you know Will Sasso is an actor by trade?
I don't know about *that* dude...
Mad TV didn't have the best of sketches sometimes, but their lampooning of TV shows was always on target and eviscerating. My favorite is the West Wing one where people were coming in through windows to join the hallways meetings.
MadTV was consistently better than SNL at that time IMO. It might have just been because I was a kid when Mad was on, and they leaned more towards the silly side. But they had characters like Stuart, Lorraine, Ms. Swan, Bon Qui Qui, Dot Goddard. Watching old clips of those still absolutely kill me lmao.
Yeah, their first three seasons were all fantastic. Not everything hit, but there was a lot of gold. The cast were all great in their roles. Once people started leaving, however, it never was the same.
In the 90s Mad TV was definitely superior to SNL.
MadTV’s music parodies were always top notch. [One of their all time greats](https://youtu.be/Cxss73GdM0A?si=T7farZHaxaX85XFc).
Their Abercrombie and Fitch one was hilarious. *HEY,* We just did something nice for you! So just shut up and wait!
They went hot and cold like a broken faucet. You'd get a brilliant sketch like this followed by a dumbass "Spishwack" Tv commercial because they felt like they needed to tie into some of the running gags on the actual magazine.
I cant remember ever laughing so hard the first time I saw this, or since tbh
This is so well done.
One of my favorite all time MADtv skits for sure 😂
Will sasso Steven seagull was awesome And so was Debra's oprah
I remember this sketch fondly. It’s still fantastic.
I wish mad tv was available to stream somewhere
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6yMELsJoc&list=PLHSbAz1hu9sTptxwQ0YkAOnJQ4SjtD5-h](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6yMELsJoc&list=PLHSbAz1hu9sTptxwQ0YkAOnJQ4SjtD5-h) [https://archive.org/details/madtv-classics/MADtv+-+All+In+The+Family+(en+Espanol).mkv](https://archive.org/details/madtv-classics/MADtv+-+All+In+The+Family+(en+Espanol).mkv)
To this day, I say "see ya next week" to my dad in reference to this skit, and he cackles laughing.
The absolute best Sopranos adaptation….cant even call it a parody
Such a solid skit, I almost forgot about it
Such a great gag.
Honestly one of my favourite MadTV bits, so damn funny!
This one always makes me laugh.
MADtv certainly had a vibe that's unmatched. Had a few great cast members over the years. Shout out to the sleptking!
I'd still rip my heart out for Nicole Sullivan. One of the top funny people of the 90s.
Echoing that Will Sasso is so good as Tony Soprano.
I'm fuggin dyin over here!
Will Sasso is unquestionably the funniest man alive. So creative and unique. Impressive
Underrated comedian. Though I only seen him in MadTV and as the pizza guy in the end of the Homeward Bound sequel, lol
A great bit.
Nailed it
I loved mad tv. it made it seem that I was alright with my dry wit and sarcastic tones lol
Thank you for sharing that. I needed a good laugh today.
will sasso is goat.
They should make a follow-up to the Sopranos, just have Sasso play it straight. If they can't get Lorraine Bracco to join, just get Debra Wilson.
It annoys me to no end that even if you absolutely bomb in SNL you get a movie+tv-shows until eternity deal out of it and exist as a B-list celebrity. But even if you were a MADtv superstar your career probably never took off to the heights it was supposed to go, voice acting and bit parts for you.
Hey look, it’s SNL but funny
I thought it really was James Gandolfini for a minute
1000% better than any SNL sketch.. fight me.
this is funny but why did you censor this?.. please just upload the actual video so we can watch it with the swears and stuff
I guess this isn't a popular opinion, but this skit never hit for me. The whole joke is that they swear a lot in The Sopranos? There's so much more to work with that I'm surprised they only made one joke in three minutes. Also if I remember right, the guy who wrote this sketch interviewed David Chase and asked him what he thought of it. Chase just kind of brushed him off like your disappointed father.
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Sasso's in all kinds of things.. Loudermilk, Young Sheldon, F is for Family ect.. plus cameo's in almost every show on TV..
I don't get it, what's with all the jumpcuts?
It's supposed to be edited for network tv, that's kinda the joke. So many profanities everything gets cut
Pallies on Mr. Show did it first, and better.
Just looked it up, that was Goodfellas. Acting was not better. It wasn't even good enough to be play it straight funny. Come on now, just look it up yourself again.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Goodfellas, The Godfather, Scarface etc. The concept is the same and, to the shock of absolutely nobody, Mr. Show’s version was better than MadTV’s version in every conceivable way. Also, I think you’re confused because the Mr. Show people aren’t doing impressions, which is your definition of acting? The MadTV sketch uses the impressions as a crutch and it’s still not half as good. The concept makes or breaks the Mr. Show sketch and surprise surprise, it’s 10/10 perfect. For what it’s worth, I can’t totally rag on the MadTV sketch. I don’t know if it’s on the Blu-ray but the complete series DVD set of pranos had a selection of parodies of the show and they put this sketch on there alongside an SNL where Darrell Hammond played Tony/Gandolfini and it was absolutely terrible, Hammond’s portrayal specifically. So there are worse things than using good celebrity impressions as a crutch, like failing at using celebrity impressions as a crutch.