they do, but us tv viewers only see the final cuts. people in the audience get to see everything, always thought it would be cool to go see something live and see the breaks and laughs
Um, In Living Color and MadTV wasn't "live". So they perfected each skit many times to get the laughs from a re-played audience level. SNL is actually live. That's why it's still on air and , In Living Color and MadTV isn't. Sketch TV is overrated. I do love Stuart sketches though...
FOX needs to bring this show back with the original cast and add a few. Nobody on Mad TV had a character that was or is as gay and moronic as SNL or Suddenly Nobody's Laughing. But Che and Jost should be incentivized (not to be confused with lured and/or groomed ) to come over to the side of "THE FORCE".
