![]() Stern (McDonald) put up with Anna Nicole Smith (Weir) on an episode of her reality show in new XXX sequel, Vin Diesel (Barinholtz) repairs cars for the AAA Jenny Jones (Collins) interviews a white trash mother (Weir) who accuses her infant son of being a slacker Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson appear in an all-star American Idol sketch Kelly Clarkson is interviewed by Ted Koppel (Caliendo), then performs a duet with Whitney Houston (Wilson) as part of his community service, Allen Iverson (Spears) runs a camp for underprivileged kids a doctor's attempt to remove his patient's infected toenail turns violent and disgusting. "Without Me" parody has Eminem (Meyers) rapping about the lackluster fall TV line-up Daniel Smith (Meyers) and Howard K. Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, Kelly Clarkson, Ryan Seacrest, Brian Dunkleman ![]() When all cast members and guests are introduced, the music stops and the title sequence ends with the phrase "You are now watching Mad TV". A shot of the cast member slightly moving appears on the screen with a caption of his/her name superimposed on it. The three screens multiply until they occupy the entire screen. The screen dissolves into three live-action clips of an individual cast member. The theme song, performed by the hip-hop group Heavy D & the Boyz, begins and each repertory cast member is introduced alphabetically, followed by the featured cast. The title sequence begins with the Mad TV logo appearing above the Los Angeles skyline. Guests this season included: former In Living Color cast members Tommy Davidson and David Alan Grier comic actor Fred Willard, That '70s Show cast members Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, and Wilmer Valderrama and former MADtv cast member, Nicole Sullivan. In her short time on the show, Jill-Michele Meleán was known for her Drew Barrymore impression and her recurring turn as one of the Glamazon Huntresses. Separately, Barinholtz performed celebrity impersonations such as Joe Millionaire's Evan Marriott and Nick Nolte, while Meyers offered offbeat impersonations of Eminem, Matthew McConaughey, Owen Wilson, Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel, and some *NSYNC members. Like their counterparts Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz on Saturday Night Live, long-time pals Ike Barinholtz and Josh Meyers would frequently appear in sketches together and play off each other's chemistry. Vogt replaced Will Sasso James Lipton and impersonated classic sitcom stars, such as Edward Asner ( The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jackie Gleason ( The Honeymooners), and Charlotte Rae ( Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts Of Life). Newcomer Ron Pederson played Dick Clark, Woody Allen, Saddam Hussein, and Entertainment Tonight anchor Mark Steines. ![]() With Sasso gone, Frank Caliendo became the latest cast member to play George W. New faces in the cast for this season include: Ike Barinholtz, Simon Helberg (who only lasted a short time on this show, but is now more popular in his role on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory), Josh Meyers (younger brother of SNL cast member, Seth Meyers, making this the only time a Saturday Night Live cast member has had a family member be hired as a cast member on a competing sketch show), Christina Moore, Ron Pederson (who would become the show's second Canadian cast member after Will Sasso), and Paul Vogt ( MADtv's only male homosexual cast member and the second cast member after season six's Nelson Ascencio to have an identical twin brother). Jill-Michele Meleán and Bobby Lee were upgraded to repertory status (though Meleán left in the middle of the season for undisclosed reasons). ![]() With fan-favorite cast members Alex Borstein, Will Sasso, and Andrew Daly gone, MADtv scrambled to find new talent to fill the void. ![]() The eighth season of Mad TV, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on the Fox Network between September 14, 2002, and May 17, 2003. ![]()
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