Mad TV was great. Now, they did start with a rap video starring Bush and Cheney and making fun of his execution record among other things--but damnit, it was funny. They really captured all the silliest things about modern rap videos and got a credible impression of what it would look like if Bush and Cheney were doing them.
Later, they had an actor made up as a cross between Al Gore and Lurch come into one actress's dressing room. It started out with her fawning on him and a few jokes where he stumbled trying to sound cool and hip, and I thought "Here we go again. He gets nothin'." But then he demanded her car keys, instead giving her one of those scooters. He tried to tell her a sob story about another voter--but it was another actress on the show, and he went from describing how she had to turn tricks to buy prescription drugs to how she was a burn victim, to how hard her life was because she was only two inches tall.
When the actress responds that he CAN'T take her car because she needs it to pick up her son, he responds "The government has already done that." He won't tell her where her son is, only that he's been renamed to something like A55gh65833201fff11111111111111111111j, because "It's just easier."
It was brilliant. The kind of thing you'd expect Rush Limbaugh to do if his writers were a bit smarter. I think there may be a libertarian or two lurking on Mad TV.
