The Idiot Box
19911 Season30m episodes6.6
Comedy
- Runtime
- 30m episodes
- Genre
- Comedy
- Origin
- US
About
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.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Tom Stern, Alex Winter
- Writing
- Tim Burns
- Status
- Ended
- First aired
- Mar 23, 1991
- Network
- MTV
Time to finish
4 hrs
7 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.
Cast
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