In this installment, we pit the late night comedy of Saturday Night Live up against the late night comedy of Mad TV. The entire history of both show is taken into account, so we are not just comparing the most recent seasons.

SNL, of course, has a longer history with audiences. In fact, it has about nearly more than a decade on Mad TV.

SNL has a higher quality in it’s productions. It’s sets, hair, make-up, and impressions are usually pretty good. They even have quite a selection of hosts and musical guests, except when certain non-actors hosted the shows and stunk up the place with their unfunny-auto-pilot acting.

Mad TV, on th eother hand, had cheaper impressions and less superior makeup jobs, in my opinion. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t at all funny. They’ve made me laugh quite a bit.

Of course, I watched Mad TV a lot less than I did SNL. Some of it’s skits I’ve found funny, many I didn’t. While I found the Emo Elmo and their many claymation skits to be quite entertaining, the likes of Jason Takes NASA (an idea that entually became a movie, Jason X—why?!!)  really haunt my memory of the show.

To be fair, even in my favorite years of SNL, there were plenty of skits I hated. The skits were Farley, Spade, and Sandler played teenage girls come to mind. By the way, I just quivered from the memory! There’s also Ana Gasteyer’s skit about the two stoned radio personas, who spoke in really soft voices.  Oh, and why they occupy the cast members’ greatest hits collections, I also hated Will Ferril and Cheri Oteri’s Cheerleader skits and the male groupies skits.

But, SNL was worse than those skits and Mad TV combined, during the mid-80’s when Anthony Michael Hall was in the cast. I’ve never seen any of those skits re-aired.

But where there is shame, glory can be found. While there was those skits, you could always find stuff like “Bill Braskey!!!,” Dan Akyroid’s shady toy guy, Wayne’s World, anything Belushi, Harry Carry’s talk show, Ferril’s Bush and the other presidential impressions,”the cowbell”, the great Phil Hartman, the Roxberry boys, Ben Stiller’s encounter with one of the guys from The Eagles….ok, that last one was kind of messed up!

Out of the two, obviously I pick SNL, though it’s kind of lost me in the newer seasons. I’ve tried watching from time to time, but I just don’t find what I’ve seen to be that funny, though I quite enjoy the McGuiver parody!

While I ind SNL’s comedy more prudent to my tastes, this whole battle depends on what kind of comedy you, the readers, prefer.

So who wins? SNL? Mad TV? Another show? Neither? You decide!