The Idiot Box (1991)
| First Air Date: | 1991, March 23 |
| Last Air Date: | 1991, March 23 |
| Status: | Ended |
| Seasons: | 1 |
| Episodes: | 7 |
| Episode Runtime: | 30 min |
Overview:
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.