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What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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Post by SL61 »

scottyah wrote: post #110
ttmb wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had never heard of the Babylon Bee and I just took a look at it. Are you saying you think The Onion is the very political one, or did I misread your sentence?

I think the Onion has become very political over the last year or so. When I started following the Babylon Bee, they were already very political to me.

The Onion has always been very political with a liberal slant. I have some of their print collections from the early 2000s and they're similar to today's Onion with maybe a little more edge.

Their gun control headline "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C'_Sa...) dates to 2014.

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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Post by freejazz »

webdoodle wrote: post #100
ethbr1 wrote: post #2

Through my childhood, my mother always found a copy of MAD to give me for Christmas. Honestly, it'd be great to have more physical zine-style humor back in the US zeitgeist. It's important to laugh at the issues of the day, while also thinking and doing something about them. Satire and laughter is a critical antidote to the 24/7 BREAKING-NEWS panic-fear response that all-day news so often inspires. PS: Also, long liv…

> It's important to laugh at the issues of the day Is it? In Robert Heilein's Stranger in a Strange Land one of the central conflicts involves the main character who's grown up on Mars, where there are no humans and no humor. He is thrust into Earth, humans and humor and makes a bold observation about humor: We only laugh at things that cause pain. Whether physical, mental or spiritual, all humor is reflecting on pai…

I take it you've never read Mad magazine then?

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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Post by DonHopkins »

pfarrell wrote: post #94
DonHopkins wrote: post #15

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The Simpsons did the best tribute to Mad that captured its true essence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzu4qILQqpA

“New Kids on the Blech” is spot on.

Fred Astaire as Alfred E. Neuman: In 1959, Fred Astaire danced on television with the odd choice of wearing a mask of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzpuGXd1lA

Makeup and prosthetics expert John Chambers checks the fit on an Alfred E. Neuman mask he made for a television special in 1959. The man behind the mask is Fred Astaire.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/uuturm/makeu...

Disturbing Alfred E. Neuman Cameo / Worst Movie Ending from Up The Academy (1980): Eek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71kJbWWOkY

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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Post by DonHopkins »

ahazred8ta wrote: post #73
bluedino wrote: post #4

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Hah! Mad Magazine was one of the things my mother refused to allow me to checkout from the library.

Mad once caricatured the young Prince Charles with enormous ears. They got an anonymous letter on Buckingham Palace stationary informing them that they were a bunch of poopyheads.

1993 SNL skit about Prince Charles turning himself into a tampon, featuring a cameo appearance by Mick Jagger delivering a package containing Prince Charles to Lady Camilla:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrzj_oMZ7c

A skit like that could have never aired on live TV without Mad Magazine paving the way in print.

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Post by criddell »

SL61 wrote: post #111
scottyah wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the Onion has become very political over the last year or so. When I started following the Babylon Bee, they were already very political to me.

The Onion has always been very political with a liberal slant. I have some of their print collections from the early 2000s and they're similar to today's Onion with maybe a little more edge. Their gun control headline "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C'_Sa... ) dates to 2014.

Since wanting to end school shootings is not a left or right issue, how would a conservative publication satirize the issue?

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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Post by b112 »

froh wrote: post #108
jordigh wrote: post #101

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A port to GNU Octave... x = [ -27,-11,-23,-6,-28,-13,-22,-6,-20,-5,-12,-5,-27,-14,-26,-13 ... -38,-29,-42,-28,-40,-28,-50,-16,-8,13,0,13,-29,4,-29,9 ... -50,-17,-41,-28,-49,-17,-50,-8,-8,12,0,12,-28,5,-28,13 ... -50,-15,-49,-10,40,-26,42,-17,-4,9,-21,14,5,48,2,44 ... -53,-39,-45,-48,-55,-23,-55,-28,-61,-23,-58,-22,-42,-39,-43,-39 ... 36,-52,36,-55,-37,-48,-32,-56,-32,-56,-26,-60,9,-74,33,-55 ... 6,-12,12,-11,14,-8,24…

oh great. the listing is missing checksums! madness! we're in 2024, checksums are the least I can expect.

It's worse than that. It's actually an AGI seed. If you run it, you get an AI which quickly gains sentience... but it's Mad.

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Post by jdougan »

criddell wrote: post #115
SL61 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Onion has always been very political with a liberal slant. I have some of their print collections from the early 2000s and they're similar to today's Onion with maybe a little more edge. Their gun control headline "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C'_Sa... ) dates to 2014.

Since wanting to end school shootings is not a left or right issue, how would a conservative publication satirize the issue?

At a guess, by pointing out the "Gun-Free Zone" signs.

Edit: No longer a guess, https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-schools-gun-free-zone-si...

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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Post by themadturk »

whartung wrote: post #16

If you look around in stores, MAD is doing kind of “best of” issues. I purchased one recently with their old sci-fi stuff (original “Star Drek”, there Star Wars parody, etc. ). I found it in a grocery store. Classic stuff to be sure.

I started reading Mad in the mid-60s, before I was old enough to get the humor. My first firm memory of it was the Star Trek musical parody. Since I was practically raised on Rogers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Lowe, I knew all the melodies and it was just hilarious.
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