TV Show Details
Air Date:March 23rd, 1991
Last Air Date:March 23rd, 1991
Network:MTV
Status:Ended
Genres:Comedy
Original Language:English
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TV Show Tags:
sketch comedy
The Idiot Box (1991)
MTV
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Plot
The Idiot Box is an American sketch comedy television series created by Alex Winter, Tom Stern and Tim Burns, which ran on MTV from 1990-1991.
After the success of Bill & Ted, MTV hired Winter, Stern, and Burns to develop a half-hour sketch comedy show for the network. As the channel was still strictly music-oriented at the time, The Idiot Box was mainly a showcase for popular music videos, but with a series of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies shown in between. Therefore, although an episode ran 30 minutes, there were only 7 to 11 minutes worth of sketches.
