The Idiot Box
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
- Status
- Ended
- First air date
- March 23, 1991
- Last air date
- March 23, 1991
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 7
- Episode runtime
- 30m
- Network
- MTV
- Original language
- EN
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