First Air Date: 1991-03-23
Rating:6.6 / 10(5 votes)
Status: Ended
Genres: Comedy
Seasons: 1 · Episodes: 7
Runtime: 30 min / episode
Director: Tom Stern
Writer: Tim Burns
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.
