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7/4/2019 3:15:17 PM
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R.I.P MAD Magazine.
https://pitchfork.com/news/mad-magazine-effectively-shuts-down/
Every day I feel like a little part of my childhood dies. Today it was MAD magazine.
For those of you who didn’t have the absolute blessing of reading MAD as a kid, first sneaking old issues like they were a copy of Playboy, then eventually laughing out loud at it with your parents, MAD pretty much invented the art of parody as we know it today.
When it came to MAD, not a single thing was sacred. It was adult humor, but lightheartedly so, blasting every politician, slamming every new movie, ridiculing every new trend. When I think back to the source of whatever sense of humor I may have, most of it can be traced back directly to MAD.
Unfortunately, they are going out of business. They never had a single ad in an issue- they were completely subscription-based, and in the age of the blessing and curse that we call the Internet, it simply didn’t have enough subscribers anymore.
This is a sad moment in comedy’s history. Rest In Peace, MAD and the Usual Gang of Idiots. You brought mirth to the masses.
O7
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1 ReplyAlfred E Newman is running for president, that's why
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They had a show on Cartoon Network at one point. I never read the magazine, but I thought the show was fine. r.i.p.
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I never read it myself, but I know that a lot of people loved it and it was their childhoods. F for respects.
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Edited by Uncanny_Vale: 7/4/2019 8:27:35 PMI used to love that as a kid. The fold-ins, spy v spy, the lighter side of, Mort Druckers parodies, Sergio Aragonés little doodles. But it was very much teenage boy humor and I grew out of it as I got older. I think that Mad magazine probably became more irrelevant to kids as time went on. Kids these days get their humor online rather than buying a magazine. I’m surprised it lasted this long.
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1 ReplyNoooooo! Not Spy vs. Spy! ;-;
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Damn that’s wild.
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Nooooooiooo
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[i]Damn! Another part of my childhood gone.[/i]
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F[b][/b]
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😔 The world has truly gone mad. F
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Sad bump
