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The Idiot Box (TV series)

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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. [1]

28 relations: Alex Winter, Bishop, Caffeine, Carol Channing, Danny Cooksey, Flea (musician), Freaked, Jerry Garcia, John Hawkes (actor), K.d. lang, Lee Arenberg, Mad (magazine), Max Headroom (character), Monty Python's Flying Circus, MTV, New wave music, Ricki Lake, Sinéad O'Connor, Sketch comedy, Television show, Tetanus, Tom Stern (director), Tony Danza, Trismus, United States, Wilson Phillips, YouTube, 20th Century Fox.

Alex Winter

Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is a British-American actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq.

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Bishop

A bishop (English derivation from the New Testament of the Christian Bible Greek επίσκοπος, epískopos, "overseer", "guardian") is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

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Caffeine

Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine class.

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Carol Channing

Carol Elaine Channing (born January 31, 1921) is an American actress, singer, dancer and comedian.

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Danny Cooksey

Daniel Ray Allen "Danny" Cooksey Jr. (born November 2, 1975) is an American actor and singer.

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Flea (musician)

Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962), better known by his stage name Flea, is an American musician and actor.

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Freaked

Freaked is a 1993 American science fantasy black comedy film directed by Tom Stern and Alex Winter, and written by Stern, Winter and Tim Burns.

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Jerry Garcia

Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as the lead guitarist and as a vocalist with the band Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s.

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John Hawkes (actor)

John Hawkes (born John Marvin Perkins; September 11, 1959) is an American actor, known for his portrayal of the merchant Sol Star on the HBO series Deadwood, Dustin Powers on Eastbound & Down, backwoods meth addict Teardrop Dolly in Winter's Bone, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated portrayal of Mark O'Brien in The Sessions.

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K.d. lang

Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.

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Lee Arenberg

Lee Arenberg (born July 18, 1962) is an American actor, best known for his role as Pintel, one of Captain Barbossa's crew, in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.

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Mad (magazine)

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine.

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Max Headroom (character)

Max Headroom is a fictional artificial intelligence (AI) character, known for his wit and stuttering, distorted, electronically sampled voice.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Ricki Lake

Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress, television presenter and producer.

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Sinéad O'Connor

Magda Davitt (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor, 8 December 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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Tetanus

Tetanus, also known as lockjaw, is an infection characterized by muscle spasms.

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Tom Stern (director)

Tom Stern is an American actor, director, writer, and producer living in Los Angeles, California.

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Tony Danza

Tony Danza (born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza; April 21, 1951) is an American actor and former professional boxer.

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Trismus

Trismus, also called lockjaw, is reduced opening of the jaws (limited jaw range of motion).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Wilson Phillips

Wilson Phillips is an American vocal group consisting of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson, and Chynna Phillips, the daughters, respectively, of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and of John and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot_Box_(TV_series)

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