Pablo_Kielbasa's Mombasa

I sent this open email to the publishers of Mad Magazine regarding the deplorable state of the Fox "comedy" series, MAD TV. When I recieve a reply, I will amend this post.

 Dear Mad Magazine Editorial Staff:  

 What me worry? Err...yes, me very worried.  

 I have been a fan of Mad Magazine since the 1970's, and remain so today. It would be perfectly accurate to proclaim that Mad Magazine played an important role in my formative years, not only as a source of comic relief, but also in revealing the follies and foibles of the human condition as well.  

 Ahh, the Bill Gaines years.

 Martin, Aragones, Berg, Jafee, the best and brightest visual satirists on the mass consumption paper-flop media market. When MAD TV made its debut over a decade ago, I expected more of the hilarious same.  It started out great, but then...What happened?

 MAD TV has absolutely none of the finely honed wit and keen sense of irony that the original Mad Magazine had. Who is charge of MAD TV? Who is the liason between the show and the publication that is supposed to ensure a quality product befitting of the MAD logo? Does a liason even exist?  

  Frankly, MAD TV sucks.

 It is simply not funny, vulgar and edgy, racially inflammatory, and especially simply un-funny. Something needs to be fixed here.  

  It is my recommendation that MAD TV be totally dismantled and reinvented, the entire production and acting staff fired, and the original time-tested core attributes of the original Mad Magazine under the glorious Gaines years be reinstated once.more. In its current format, MAD TV does not work, and is a travesty to what Mad Magazine has meant, and continues to mean, to the eager eyed youth of America.

  Sincerely, A really mad, Mad fan

 cc: info@madtv.com, askmad@madmagazine.com, askfox@foxinc.com

Why has TV foresaken thee, Alfred E?!