I learned to imitate Ms. Swan’s voice when I was a teen and it used to crack my mom up which was a feat. I’d call her office and leave her a message in Swan’s voice. It was the only time I could really break my reserved mom. I wish I could call her up and do the voice again but she’s passed on, so I just watch this sometimes and I laugh to myself picturing her laughing. ❤️
Arsenio convinced us to stop trying to adjust the color settings on our TV when his show was on, Michael Jordan did more than sell shoes for Nike, Jim Carey was still funny, and, of course, Homie, in fact, did not "play that".
It’s 2021. I’m at work and someone is asking me to describe a male patient. 🤣🤣🤣 I’m sorry but miss swan was the first thing that popped in my mind. Still HILARIOUS.
EVERY time someone asks "What does he look like?" I say this in her accent! (USUALLY out loud!) 🤣🤣🤣(Unfortunately, MOST ppl don't recognize it!😥 Mad TV didn't get the kudos they deserved!)
SO! You're stating, and here in public, that there actually ARE such creatures as MEN??? How very DARE you??? Next you'll be ranting that "women" exist too, I suppose???? Ugh.....what a Nazi.....
On a random note I got to meet Will Sasso.. He dropped his glasses at an event I was working, I picked them up and handed them back to him and he said "thanks." Best moment of my life
i'm just marveling at how far she's come. I grew up watching mad tv and always loved her characters. between mad tv and family guy she's been with me for years. excellent actress, one of the best comedic actresses ever.
I had the biggest crush on her back in the day. Maybe it was because I lived in Korea twice or because she was so spot on and cute at the same time?? Idk... but I'm still laughing!!
Alex Borstein... One of the best and brightest of MAD TV. Pared-down variant of "WHO'S ON FIRST?" Still works. "Bend it like Beckham" or SNL's "just" Pat: Julia Sweeney. Shanks for the memory.
Fact! And SNL cast uses cue cards too much, even professional and famous actors. This really does take away from the skit. Mad is just funnier and easier to watch.
Is that why it was canceled after trying to make a comeback after trying to go pg? SnL is pretty hilarious. And still running longer than mad tv ever has. Don’t compare the two cause they aren’t anything a like. The character breaks in alot of skits is dead funny.
@@TriqqyTones SNL stays on, because it's cheap to produce, and NBC likes having the show regardless of how much we revenue it brings in. The main thing is SNL features prominent guests, which gives the station attention among Hollywood and DC. It has absolutely nothing to do with quality, and more to do with clout. MadTV did not have a high profit margin from advertisements by the end, which is what usually determines whether a network keeps a show. MadTV's poor ratings by the end were mostly due to cast changes; many popular members like Alex here having already left the show. A comparable show for Fox would be The Simpsons. It's profit margin is probably not nearly what it once was, but Fox wants to be known as the home of The Simpsons, regardless of whether people watch the show anymore. Like SNL, The Simpsons was also a home for Hollywood guests to be featured, and for a time in the 90s being a guest on The Simpsons was considered a career highlight like that of hosting SNL.
@@brucenatelee During "SNL"'s first few years (1975-80), it was hysterical. You should check out the early stuff here or on DVD/Blu-Ray. After that, it was mildly amusing in the '80s, then became unwatchable by the '90s & has remained so. The really GREAT sketch comedy for kids (well, not just for kids) was the '80s show "You Can't Do That On Television".
I cannot believe the preceding comment was written by somebody who was HUMAN! Are you typing this as you perch on a branch at the ZOO? YOU don't "looka like a man", you sounda like a complete MO-ran!
The first time I saw this it was very early in the morning. A couple hours later at work one of the guys lost his knife. Another guy said, "What does it look like?" Of course, guy 1 said, "It look like . . . a knife."
FOX hated MadTV and resented its success. As soon as the ratings dipped they pulled it. MadTV never had any advertisement or press going for it. NBC on the other hand adores SNL and even at some of its worst moments the network still supported Lorne and his work. SNL bred stars, MADtv did not. SNL hit the cultural zeitgeist, MADtv was popular but focused more on lowbrow blue collar humor that seemed more juvenile as the years went on.
This is not racist. Stereotypical humour perhaps, but not racist. Stereotypical is the word you are looking for people. It seems that people these days do not correctly apply vocabulary and use the same word for everything...
Aaron Toledo stereotypical would be having an Asian woman doing nails in a nail salon as she tries too communicate with her client in broken English and the client not understanding. What this is is laughing at a woman for a high voice and not understanding English too well which is racism. I would say you're the one who doesn't understand the difference
The character is not smart. The voice is supposed to sound funny and the language barrier is what the joke is 'going' to be about. But that's a diversion. It turns out she's stupid - like he's trying to get across the idea of skin color and she's like "yeah, it was a person". And there is nothing like over-explaining humor to kill it.
WOULD NOT FLY nowadays. This was one of my favorite Miss Swan. I used to laugh soo hard at this when he went crazy......and...yeah........would not fly.
Dear EVERYONE, She is parodying Bjork NOT an Asian person. She even named the character Ms Swan after the crazy dead swan dress Bjork so famously wore.
I remember this episode as soon as I seen the police officer asking Ms. Swan questions, then Ms. Swan kept repeating "he looky like a man". I remember my friend and I were talking about this on Monday and Tuesday (after Saturday night) when we were in grade school during the 1990s.
I learned to imitate Ms. Swan’s voice when I was a teen and it used to crack my mom up which was a feat. I’d call her office and leave her a message in Swan’s voice. It was the only time I could really break my reserved mom. I wish I could call her up and do the voice again but she’s passed on, so I just watch this sometimes and I laugh to myself picturing her laughing. ❤️
Condolences
❤️
She’s still laughing i bet 🙏🏽
Really nice post. Great that you have such fond memories.
Beautiful memory
I just realized that Ms. Swan don't snitch...
Lol ikr
Woa a also tryin to get some sex
Facts lmao
Reminds me of Papi ain't no snitch
....but that’s stupid ... lol he robbed the place lmao
I’m old, and the 90s feel like a different planet
Amen
Jimmy James 𝙂et po
I like that planet.
@wmfivethree Well only on the 2000s part. The 2010s sucked and the 2020s aren’t stacking up to be any better.
Arsenio convinced us to stop trying to adjust the color settings on our TV when his show was on,
Michael Jordan did more than sell shoes for Nike,
Jim Carey was still funny,
and, of course, Homie, in fact, did not "play that".
"Detail, you no say before."
Like that made a difference.
😂
Clearly it does!
It’s 2021. I’m at work and someone is asking me to describe a male patient. 🤣🤣🤣 I’m sorry but miss swan was the first thing that popped in my mind. Still HILARIOUS.
EVERY time someone asks "What does he look like?" I say this in her accent! (USUALLY out loud!) 🤣🤣🤣(Unfortunately, MOST ppl don't recognize it!😥 Mad TV didn't get the kudos they deserved!)
😂😂😂
😂
This skit has aged so well.
@@youroldsweetie My wife and I will answer each other, "yah, alright, I tell you everyting".
"okay black a like a me, black a like a you" 😂😂😂😂😂
This is still better then anything on tv nowadays🤣🤣
Mad TV was peak comedy back in the day lol..can’t do some of that stuff now 🙄😂
No woke BS!
@@tonymaurice4157 God you guys are fucking annoying lol
I can watch her 100 times and still laugh.
Incredible
*"Okay, detail. You no say detail before."* Ms. Swan never gave any details. I caaaaan't!!! Lmaooooo!!!
I love me some Ms. Swan, especially when she said: "Black like a me, black like a you. " LOL #comedy :)
Black like you, black like me, black lika man 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
no way this would fly on TV today.. still makes me laugh though.
Why not?
+roxcyn cause peoples feelings get easily hurt these days. most people have thin skin.
+Jonathan Urbano I think it would be OK, did you know they have Mad TV again with new people? I haven't watched it yet.
kryten09 Family Guy gets away with murder lol.
I think he's referring to a white actress portraying a stereotypical Asian woman.
You can't get quality comedy like this anymore!
IIG that's because people would rather be offended than laugh.
I find this neither offensive nor funny. I think the laugh track kills it.
you must not know what a laugh track is, 'cause there ain't one on this
+Doge Butt Didn't they film in front of a live studio audience?
Eric Andre
She's the most political correct person ever. Every man look like a man.
We all look alike.
SO! You're stating, and here in public, that there actually ARE such creatures as MEN??? How very DARE you??? Next you'll be ranting that "women" exist too, I suppose????
Ugh.....what a Nazi.....
But she didn't say cis man ;-)
Even Rachel Levine! I’d love to have a clip of just her saying “he look like a man”
@@paulmurphy216 hahahahahaha
This is just so damn hilarious and never gets old.
Alex Borstein’s best skit role.
I love how she is serious but says the same thing over and over XD
and went on to become lois griffin :D
@@jumpieva yeah but I only like her as original Lois Griffin not modern Lois Griffin
@c.galindo9639 Likewise. Family Guy crapped out big time years ago and now I can't stand FG anymore.
@@SamanthaJonesSATC yup. Such a shame
Only Seth MacFarlane series in cartoon form I'm still able to sit through is American Dad.
Miss Swan is the funniest gimmick i ever seen in my life.
Hahaha me too
I still can't believe Ms Swan is the voice actress of Lois in Family Guy
And misty luggins
Quarantining got me like.."I tell you everyting"🤣😂
That's the ticket
On a random note I got to meet Will Sasso.. He dropped his glasses at an event I was working, I picked them up and handed them back to him and he said "thanks." Best moment of my life
For him, it was a Tuesday.
Jesse Armstrong
One of my all time favorite characters. Love me Ms. Swan.
Reminds me of when I used to live in a Vietnamese woman's house, you try so hard, in vain, to have a conversation that gets anywhere! So spot on!
"Okay I tell you erryting, he looka like a man!" Lmaooooo
Laughing my ass off
That’s me when my teacher asks me a math question 😂😂
it's an odd number…
This Show was CLASSIC COMEDY AT ITS FINEST
She is amazing as Suzi, on Mrs. Mrs. Maizel. Well deserved Emmy.
She’s also Lois on family guy!
i'm just marveling at how far she's come. I grew up watching mad tv and always loved her characters. between mad tv and family guy she's been with me for years. excellent actress, one of the best comedic actresses ever.
I had the biggest crush on her back in the day. Maybe it was because I lived in Korea twice or because she was so spot on and cute at the same time?? Idk... but I'm still laughing!!
the officer is way more patient than the other people she works with
People too sensitive for this nowadays. This sketch funny as fuc*
I was just talking about Miss Swan today. Lol, Miss Swan had me rolling back in the day. 😂😂😂
Lol
Nowadays everybody look like a man
I swear he look a like a man randomly pops in my head until this day!!
Miss swan was before her time.. This wouldn't fly today in 2020
I think that means, she was exactly in her time.
Alex Borstein... One of the best and brightest of MAD TV. Pared-down variant of "WHO'S ON FIRST?" Still works. "Bend it like Beckham" or SNL's "just" Pat: Julia Sweeney. Shanks for the memory.
Ok I tell you evrytin!
canadianbacon007
i need that on a tshirt along with Miss Swan's face
Hahaha
@@skeeterburke yesss
lol I miss MAD TV
sleep overs. lol
He I saw everything I saw everything
Season 3=best season. Every episode a classic.
Blacka lika me Blacka lika you!😂😂😂
2019 version: they look like a person.
He a man but act like a lady
Jus Me Haha 😂
I am not sure what pronoun they identify with
like a person with no gender
@@medusaspupil like a person who doesn't claim a gender. Everyone has a gender, whether they're willing to accept it or not.
Mad was much funnier than SNl.
Fact! And SNL cast uses cue cards too much, even professional and famous actors. This really does take away from the skit. Mad is just funnier and easier to watch.
I stopped watching SNL after they fired Chris Rock and Adam Sandler.
Is that why it was canceled after trying to make a comeback after trying to go pg? SnL is pretty hilarious. And still running longer than mad tv ever has. Don’t compare the two cause they aren’t anything a like. The character breaks in alot of skits is dead funny.
@@TriqqyTones SNL stays on, because it's cheap to produce, and NBC likes having the show regardless of how much we revenue it brings in. The main thing is SNL features prominent guests, which gives the station attention among Hollywood and DC. It has absolutely nothing to do with quality, and more to do with clout. MadTV did not have a high profit margin from advertisements by the end, which is what usually determines whether a network keeps a show. MadTV's poor ratings by the end were mostly due to cast changes; many popular members like Alex here having already left the show.
A comparable show for Fox would be The Simpsons. It's profit margin is probably not nearly what it once was, but Fox wants to be known as the home of The Simpsons, regardless of whether people watch the show anymore. Like SNL, The Simpsons was also a home for Hollywood guests to be featured, and for a time in the 90s being a guest on The Simpsons was considered a career highlight like that of hosting SNL.
I thought this was funny when I was a kid, but it's very repetitive. Yes, he looka lika man and I tell you everyting. Got it.
"Okay...black like a me, black like a you" 😂
I saw everything I saw everything
Lmao my son just asked what Victor Von Doom looks like under the helmet. All I could think of was this
Her and bonquiqui, priceless
2022 here and my gawd. Much better than Saturday night Live.
you sound surprised...of course it is
Yup. SNL has always been trash; they canceled the wrong show.
Its 2024
it’s the
Nostalgia for me
Classic...MadTv is and was better than Saturday Night Live
I kinda grew up watching MadTv and never cared for SNL. Then there's All That as well, sketch comedy for the kids.
@@brucenatelee
During "SNL"'s first few years
(1975-80), it was hysterical.
You should check out
the early stuff here
or on DVD/Blu-Ray.
After that, it was mildly
amusing in the '80s,
then became unwatchable
by the '90s & has remained so.
The really GREAT sketch comedy
for kids (well, not just for kids)
was the '80s show
"You Can't Do That On Television".
I love this show!!!! I Remember watching it as a kid.
This was the first sketch I had ever seen of Ms Swan. Still fucking hilarious. XD
Me too!!
This is so hilarious I can't stop laughing 🤣😂 they should find some way to bring back that character in a different show or something
In the world of Woke? Hahaha. She'd be cancelled faster than she could say "he looka like a man".
When I was in 7th grade, I thought this shit was sooo funny...I can't believe it was written by somebody in their 30s.
I cannot believe the preceding comment was written by somebody who was HUMAN! Are you typing this as you perch on a branch at the ZOO? YOU don't "looka like a man", you sounda like a complete MO-ran!
lol why not?
I've actually did this to traffic investigation police! Drove the cops NUTS! They walked away from me! 😂😅😂
The good old days when comedy shows were actually funny
Dude Alex Borstein is TALENTED.
Miss. Swan - madTV
The teacher- Lizzy McGuire
LOIS GRIFFIN!!! - Family Guy
Wonder Woman- Robot Chicken!!!!
I remember watching these episodes when I was 14 back in 1997....classics!!!
I was 7 in 97
This must have been the first appearance of Ms Swan.. Lol
Maybe so, because the audience didn't clap and go wild when they saw her (like they normally do).
I remember clearly and it was the first character appearance. I got it on VHS. LOL
This is the second Ms Swan sketch; the first one was almost the same.
The first time I saw this it was very early in the morning. A couple hours later at work one of the guys lost his knife. Another guy said, "What does it look like?" Of course, guy 1 said, "It look like . . . a knife."
This use to make me and friends laugh all the time. Brings back memories. 😆
She's also Lois Griffin 😯😯
She always had me rolling... I think that's who plays Louis on Family Guy too 😂
I remember watching this when it first came out. It hits completely different today when you have people switching genders 🤦♂️
The ending of this skit was crazy too bad it got cut short here 😂😂
This gets cancelled, yet that bullshit Saturday night live is still on the air
FOX hated MadTV and resented its success. As soon as the ratings dipped they pulled it. MadTV never had any advertisement or press going for it. NBC on the other hand adores SNL and even at some of its worst moments the network still supported Lorne and his work. SNL bred stars, MADtv did not. SNL hit the cultural zeitgeist, MADtv was popular but focused more on lowbrow blue collar humor that seemed more juvenile as the years went on.
Someone Random is a triggered trumpTARD snowflake. LMFAO!
Well SNL has his good points and bad the problem with Mad TV getting canceled because the executives at Fox Entertainment were idiots.
@@barnabyaprobert5159 nah he's right on the money
i miss In Living Color ... "Homie don't play dat"
I absolutely love Ms. Swan !
I love this skit. Best one on Madtv
she's actually trying to be helpful. she just can't find the words lol
She is phenomenal! Love her!!
When Will Sasso squints his eyes at 0:22 lmao he does that in all kinds of clips...
This was the best Miss Swan sketch imo
Great childhood memories. 😂 They wouldn’t make this today.
My belly hurting after eating 🍽 😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Why didn't Ms. Swan ever get her own show? It's 25 years later and this shit is still funny as fuck.
Every-ting I tell you.
This wouldn't fly today... this PERSON.. looked like a PERSON lol
That cop is cute
This will give anyone 25 and under a heart attack.
Miss the good.old days
Technology has advanced to the point where an AI version of Mrs. Swan should be created to entertain us.
This is not racist. Stereotypical humour perhaps, but not racist. Stereotypical is the word you are looking for people.
It seems that people these days do not correctly apply vocabulary and use the same word for everything...
Aaron Toledo stereotypical would be having an Asian woman doing nails in a nail salon as she tries too communicate with her client in broken English and the client not understanding. What this is is laughing at a woman for a high voice and not understanding English too well which is racism. I would say you're the one who doesn't understand the difference
Nope. It is racist.
The character is not smart. The voice is supposed to sound funny and the language barrier is what the joke is 'going' to be about. But that's a diversion. It turns out she's stupid - like he's trying to get across the idea of skin color and she's like "yeah, it was a person". And there is nothing like over-explaining humor to kill it.
Oh come on guys. I had a Viet mother in law. She had a very heavy accent. I showed her this sketch and she laughed her ass off.
So making jokes about African Americans about fried chicken is stereotypical not racial? I don't think either is mutually exclusive of the other...
WOULD NOT FLY nowadays. This was one of my favorite Miss Swan. I used to laugh soo hard at this when he went crazy......and...yeah........would not fly.
Classic clip. They would cancel FOX for airing this show today. :/
We're cracking this case wide open! There can't be more than 4 billion men that fit that description.
This is the best ever. I'm still crying laughing LOL. It just never gets old!
As a Gemologist, sometimes we had to identify gemstones. My coworkers would ask "what is it?" We'd always answer to each other " He looka like a man."
Miss Swann is The Best
When comedy was comedy. Nothing other than that.
I love Mrs. Swan and Will Sasso!
Yup… Darklight 😂😂
watching her in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel right now
Everyone think Susie lookah like a man
Ms. Swan, an American Icon. Yes, no, I tell you everything!
How in the F did he not break character 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
A man
Now days saying he look a man can be taken the wrong way lol.
Dear EVERYONE, She is parodying Bjork NOT an Asian person. She even named the character Ms Swan after the crazy dead swan dress Bjork so famously wore.
If she was my mother, we would have different characters for every day 🤣😂😂😂
It takes a lot to actually make me laugh, but this got me!
I wish mad tv was still on tv
Love this show so much
Thank goodness for UA-cam!
I remember this episode as soon as I seen the police officer asking Ms. Swan questions, then Ms. Swan kept repeating "he looky like a man". I remember my friend and I were talking about this on Monday and Tuesday (after Saturday night) when we were in grade school during the 1990s.
2022 still watching major throwback
He
We live in such a “woke” world today that humor like this would somehow be disrespectful to some particular groups..
Happy Folger says hello
this character is so GD funny. comic genius.
this show is so funny
I used to watch this when it was still on tv 😀😂
El o el
My sister used to watch this and whole time I ain’t even realize it was Alex Borstein lmao