The Idiot Box (1991)

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.

First aired

1991-03-23

Genres

Comedy

Seasons

1 (7 episodes)

Status

Ended

Created by

Tom Stern, Alex Winter

Directed / written by

Tom Stern, Alex Winter

TMDB rating

6.6/10 from 5 votes