1. Mad magazine was primarily read by kids between 9 and 14 years old. It was also the most important satirical magazine in American history. Let me explain.
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5. In the sweep of American cultural history, Mad was the crucial link between the anarchic immigrant humor of the Marx Brothers in the 1920s/1930s & the insurgent counterculture of the 1960s and beyond.
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6. The decision of Mad very early on to focus on media and advertising was crucial: in an increasingly media-dominated society, Mad picked the right target. Not taking advertising from 1957 to 2002 allowed MAD to go after people (cigarette companies) other media avoided
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7. Patti Smith: “After Mad, drugs were nothing.” Without Mad, it's hard to imagine underground comics, National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live, the Simpons, the Onion, Stephen Colbert. Mad was the seedbed of an entire genre of media-focused satirical comedy.
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8. More thoughts on Mad's legacy here: https://www.thenation.com/article/mad-magazine-media-politics/ …
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I inherited my uncle's collection of MAD from the 60s and early 70s. One issue (from 1967) I have has a parody of Porgie & Bess called "Stokely and Tess" and was about the conflict within the civil rights movement btwn Carmichael and MLK. It is problematic, but fascinating.
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With you, except re: "buttoned-down" (like 'spoonsfull'?)
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