Summary
Spencer Kayden, Ron Pederson, Aries Spears, and Paul Vogt left at the end of season ten. Crista Flanagan, a featured player from season ten, was promoted to repertory status. One new repertory cast member, Arden Myrin, and two new featured cast members, Nicole Randall Johnson and Frank Caeti, were added to the cast. Stephnie Weir, who announced her departure at the end of season ten, agreed to film four new episodes' worth of material, which was spread throughout the first half of the season until Weir ended her 6 year run on Madtv.
Season 11 showcased one of the youngest casts ever: except for Michael McDonald and Stephnie Weir, all cast members were born in the 1970s and joined MADtv after the year 2000. The ethnic composition of the season 11 cast was also the most diverse in the show's history, with one Asian male, one Jewish male, three white males, two African-American males, two African-American females (the only season to do so), and four white females.
New sketches in season 11 included send-ups of Fox NFL Sunday, featuring Arden Myrin, Jordan Peele, Frank Caliendo, Frank Caeti, and Ike Barinholtz, and Ike and Bobby "On the Town" sketches, which were often shot on location. Nicole Parker introduced her first recurring character, The Disney Girl, a perky, happy young woman who tries to spread joy in city slums. The Disney Girl is also carefree yet naive and expresses her feelings by singing. (Parker won a Creative Arts Emmy for best lyrics in the Disney Girl sketch "Wonderfully Normal Day"). Daniele Gaither appeared as mumbling sociopath Yvonne Criddle and Crista Flanagan played Wendy Walker, a cooking show host who gets stressed out preparing meals. Myrin impersonated Hollywood's D-list celebrities such as Jillian Barberie in Fox NFL Sunday sketches; she also played nerdy craftsworkers Krista and Alana from Holly Meadow Estates. Johnson played characters like The Vancome Lady-like Ka-Son and impersonated celebrities like Star Jones, Queen Latifah, and Chris Rock. Frank Caeti impersonated Nick DiPaolo and former Dallas Cowboys coach-turned-Fox NFL Sunday-announcer Jimmy Johnson.
A variety of special guests this season were from sitcoms (Jeff Garlin, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris, Jaime Pressly, Michael Rapaport), wrestling organizations (John Cena), and past seasons of MADtv (Jeff Probst, Pauly Shore, Fred Willard). Pamela Anderson, a celebrity lampooned by past cast members Mo Collins and Arden Myrin (and who hosted a season 22 episode of MADtv's rival show, Saturday Night Live), made her first appearance on the sketch show's 250th episode.
Read more about this topic: MADtv (season 11)
Famous quotes containing the word summary:
“Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)