director:
Tom Stern
/
Alex Winter
playwright:
Tim Burns
actor:
Alex Winter
/
Lee Arenberg
/
Tom Stern
/
Danny Cooksey
/
Ricki Lake
genre:
Comedy
region:
United States
language:
English
all seasons:
1
number of seasons: 1
release date: 1991-03-23
IMDb: tt0211812
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.