The Idiot Box

Name: The Idiot Box
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1991-03-23
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Alex Winter, Lee Arenberg, Tom Stern, Danny Cooksey, Ricki Lake

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Comedy

Creator:Tom Stern,Alex Winter

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.

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Details

StatusEnded

First AiredMarch 23, 1991

Last AiredMarch 23, 1991

Episode Runtime30dk

Seasons1

Episodes7

TypeScripted

Origin CountryUnited States

Original LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesEnglish

Keywords

sketch comedy

Networks

Last Episode

S1 E1 • 3/23/1991

Episode #1.1

The sketches in the first episode of Idiot Box include a mafia inspired intro by Alex Winter, a commercial for headache medicine, Eddie The Flying Gimp From Outer Space, Battle of The Bands, Rock Accountant and The Very Finest of Tonight's Idiot Box.