Mad TV (season 15)

Mad TV (season 15)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	8
Release
Original network	The CW
Original release	July 26 – September 27, 2016
Season chronology

The fifteenth season of Mad TV, an American sketch comedy series, premiered in the United States on The CW on July 26, 2016. This season features a new cast as well as featuring some original cast members, such as Nicole Sullivan, Alex Borstein, and Will Sasso. The show aired on July 26, 2016. The season finale aired on September 27, 2016.^[1]

Cast

Repertory cast members

Carlie Craig (Ariana Grande, Megyn Kelly, Kristin Chenoweth, Britney Spears, Additional Characters)
Chelsea Davison (Adele, Lena Dunham, Melissa McCarthy, Additional Characters)
Jeremy D. Howard (Kanye West, Tracy Morgan, Sumbrella, Additional Characters)
Amir K. (Terrence Howard [as Lucious Lyon from Empire], Scott Baio, Aziz Ansari, Additional Characters)
Lyric Lewis (Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Taraji P. Henson [as Cookie Lyon from Empire], Viola Davis, Additional Characters)
Piotr Michael (Donald Trump, Jeff Goldblum, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Rogen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Additional Characters)
Michelle Ortiz (Melania Trump, Raven-Symone, Penélope Cruz, Idina Menzel, Dora the Explorer, Additional Characters)
Adam Ray (Pitbull (rapper), Alec Baldwin, Tony Danza, Wolf Blitzer, Additional Characters)

Original cast

Nicole Sullivan (Hillary Clinton & Darlene McBride)
Will Sasso (Bill Clinton, Kenny Rogers, & Michael Mcloud)
Bobby Lee (Blind Kung Fu Master, Tank, & Kim Jong-un)
Debra Wilson (Phylicia Rashad [as Clair Huxtable], Tova McQueen, & Oprah Winfrey)
Ike Barinholtz (Additional Characters)
Aries Spears (Bill Cosby [as Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable], Belma Buttons, Stedman)
Mo Collins (Carol Fitty, Lorraine, Additional Characters)
Anjelah Johnson (Bon Qui Qui)
Alex Borstein (Ms. Swan & Jasmine Wayne-Wayne)

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date	US viewers (millions)
322	1	"Episode 1"	July 26, 2016 (2016-07-26)	0.81^[2]
Nicole Sullivan and Will Sasso welcome the new cast members, who say a demonic prayer to help them get through the first episode; CNN presents a political version of The Newlywed Game featuring Bill and Hillary Clinton (Sasso & Sullivan) vs. Donald and Melania Trump (Michael & Ortiz); Dora the Explorer (Ortiz) explores the seedy side of Los Angeles; Elizabeth Warren (Craig) upstages Hillary Clinton (Sullivan) during a campaign speech; a couple can't keep up with a Game of Thrones recap; Kenny Rogers appears on The Bachelorette's landmark 56th season; HBO First Look goes behind the scenes of an animated reboot of Cinderella featuring the vocal "talents" of Nicki Minaj (Lewis), Steve Buscemi (Michael), Penelope Cruz (Ortiz), Lena Dunham (Davison), Kristen Stewart (Craig), Tony Danza (Ray), and Tracy Morgan (Howard); a woman's ex-boyfriend becomes a lounge singer and humiliates her; Ned Stark (Michael) from Game of Thrones runs for President in 2016 and makes lewd comments about his daughter.
323	2	"Episode 2"	August 2, 2016 (2016-08-02)	0.67^[3]
Ike Barinholtz meets Amir K and Piotr Michael and shows them secret compartments hiding booze, pills, and a feral Bobby Lee; Bobby Lee shows Ike Barinholtz their new child; Princess Polly (Craig) works the parking lot of a Disneyland-esque theme park; James Bond gets rescued by The Blind Kung-Fu Master; a look at the Rio 2016 Olympics; Ike and Bobby go on Shark Tank; Lyric Lewis invites Idina Menzel (Ortiz) and Kristen Chenoweth (Craig) onstage to sing the national anthem; overly-PC millennials (Ortiz & Ray) host a college talk show called Safe Space and Melissa McCarthy (Davison) calls them out on their behavior; a third-grade teacher tries to resolve bullying issues in her class.
324	3	"Episode 3"	August 9, 2016 (2016-08-09)	0.60^[4]
State Farm Insurance commercial parody where drivers summon their insurance agents during awkward moments; Debra Wilson and Aries Spears return; suicide hotline callers (K, Lewis & Ortiz) are plagued with calls from people who want to know about the movie Suicide Squad; an updated version of The Cosby Show centers on Bill Cosby's allegations of drugging and sexually assaulting younger women; a ghetto court stenographer complicates a slip and fall case; Belma Buttons (Spears) and Tovah McQueen (Wilson) return for another installment of Reality Check where they call out Megyn Kelly (Craig); Octavia Spencer (Lewis) appears on an Iranian talk show; Jeff Goldblum (Michael) rambles his way through a grocery store commercial; sexual tension brews between Oprah Winfrey (Wilson) and her friend Gayle King (Lewis) during a WeightWatchers commercial.
325	4	"Episode 4"	August 23, 2016 (2016-08-23)	0.66^[5]
Match Game gets a political, modern-day update; Mo Collins' Lorraine returns to annoy a gym trainer; new album recorded by a diabetic R&B singer (Howard); Donald Trump (Michael) and Hillary Clinton (Nicole Sullivan) sing a duet about the insanity and improbability of both of them running for U.S. President; an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon includes Ariana Grande (Craig) and Pitbull (Ray) playing knife games with Fallon (Michael) for charity; Donald Trump (Michael) spouts off on Confessions of a Terrifically Huge Mind; Talking Dead gets recursive with nested spin-offs; Darlene McBride (Sullivan) returns with her FOX News Car Karaoke special; Arnold Schwarzenegger (Michael) does a PSA against steroids.
326	5	"Episode 5"	August 30, 2016 (2016-08-30)	0.70^[6]
Dora the Explorer (Ortiz) ventures to Las Vegas where she ends up at a strip club; Kim Jong-Un (Bobby Lee) joins the #RichKidsOfBeverlyHills on E!'s latest reality show; MTV's Flow welcomes a rapper whose lyrics aren't hardcore; Donald Trump (Michael) creates Trump Elementary and nearly makes out with his daughter, Ivanka (Craig); Jamiele Hall (Lewis) gets hit on by Tank (Lee); an Amish woman (Davison) is the entertainment at a bachelor party; a man from India (Amir K) struggles with baseball announcer banter; Bernie Sanders (Michael) fumbles with his new SmartPhone.
327	6	"Episode 6"	September 6, 2016 (2016-09-06)	0.68^[7]
Anjelah Johnson gets too into her role as Bon Qui Qui; Sunbrella (Howard) gets into crime scene investigation; a Walking Dead cliffhanger stretches out the suspense to ridiculous levels; Bon Qui Qui (Johnson) returns to King Burger; Empire parody featuring Justin Timberlake (John Barinholtz), Adele (Davison), and Ariana Grande (Craig), trying to sign with Empire Records; Amir K rents out Adam Ray's, Carlie Craig's, and Michelle Ortiz's dressing rooms; a half-fish Kardashian sister (Davison) is introduced on Keeping Up with the Kardashians; a cooking show for stoners; a parody of $100,000 Pyramid; Bon Qui Qui plugs Homegirl Security.
328	7	"Episode 7"	September 20, 2016 (2016-09-20)	0.58^[8]
"Hermanos Bros. Law"; Carlie Craig gains telekinetic powers after binge-watching Stranger Things; a "good cop/bad cop" scenario where the "bad cop" is a douchebag; 5 Things You Didn't Know About Britney Spears (Craig); Miss Swan (Alex Borstein) becomes a cartoon character; advertisers try to make guns more appealing to American consumers; the female cast members play Fuck, Marry, Kill and Chelsea Davison reveals that she'd do all three to Piotr Michael; Alex Borstein and Will Sasso talk about their time on MADtv; Piotr Michael's Morgan Freeman narrator voice annoys a hungover Adam Ray; an HBO First Look at celebrity auditions for The Michael McLeod (Sasso) and Jasmine Wayne-Wayne (Borstein) Story; Piotr Michael annoys Lyric Lewis.
329	8	"Episode 8"	September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27)	0.55^[9]
A crisis group centered on people who were injured while being saved by The Flash; Will Sasso and Bobby Lee play crazy ex-boyfriends; The Bachelor in Paradise; Adam Ray needs a translator for the female cast members shortened slang; a wine steward steals a man's girlfriend; Jeremy D. Howard reads his Yelp reviews; another installment of Iran's Hollywood Minute; Bernie Sanders (Michael) becomes KFC's new Colonel Sanders.

References

↑ Petski, Denise (15 June 2016). "'MadTV': Jeremy Howard & Adam Ray Among New Cast Members Of CW Reboot". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
↑ Porter, Rick (July 27, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'AGT' and 'Bachelorette' adjust up, 'Zoo,' 'Coupled' and 'Whose Line' adjust down". Retrieved July 27, 2016.
↑ Porter, Rick (August 3, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'America's Got Talent' adjusts up, 'Whose Line' and 'MADtv' adjust down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
↑ Porter, Rick (August 10, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: Olympics adjust up, 'MADtv' adjusts down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
↑ Porter, Rick (August 24, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'Better Late Than Never,' everything else unchanged". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
↑ Porter, Rick (August 31, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'America's Got Talent' adjusts up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
↑ Porter, Rick (September 8, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings:'America's Got Talent' adjusts up, 'Better Late Than Never' adjusts down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
↑ Porter, Rick (September 21, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'NCIS,' 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' adjust up, 'This Is Us' & 'Bull' steady". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
↑ Porter, Rick (September 28, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'The Voice' adjusts up, 'Scream Queens' adjusts down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 28, 2016.

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[1] Petski, Denise (15 June 2016). "'MadTV': Jeremy Howard & Adam Ray Among New Cast Members Of CW Reboot". Retrieved 26 July 2016.

[2] Porter, Rick (July 27, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'AGT' and 'Bachelorette' adjust up, 'Zoo,' 'Coupled' and 'Whose Line' adjust down". Retrieved July 27, 2016.

[3] Porter, Rick (August 3, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'America's Got Talent' adjusts up, 'Whose Line' and 'MADtv' adjust down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 3, 2016.

[4] Porter, Rick (August 10, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: Olympics adjust up, 'MADtv' adjusts down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 10, 2016.

[5] Porter, Rick (August 24, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'Better Late Than Never,' everything else unchanged". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 24, 2016.

[6] Porter, Rick (August 31, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'America's Got Talent' adjusts up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 31, 2016.

[7] Porter, Rick (September 8, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings:'America's Got Talent' adjusts up, 'Better Late Than Never' adjusts down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 8, 2016.

[8] Porter, Rick (September 21, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'NCIS,' 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' adjust up, 'This Is Us' & 'Bull' steady". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 21, 2016.

[9] Porter, Rick (September 28, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'The Voice' adjusts up, 'Scream Queens' adjusts down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 28, 2016.