RIP
Will he have a foldable casket?
Recognized the name immediately...thanks for all the laughs, Mr. Jaffe.
I enjoyed his folding fun.
RIP. And thanks….
I started reading MAD when it was in color, sold in the comic book section of drug stores and newsstands. When I got kicked out of the Honor Society my mother blamed my MAD addiction and threw out my collection. But she was wrong. It was tennis, girls and cars. I still loved her, though….
Read Mad Magazine all throughout my pre-teen and early teens. Had several of the paperbacks, including some of the “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions” series.
RIP Al Jaffe.
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I’m old enough to remember when having a copy of Mad Magazine was a daring act.
Many a copy confiscated by my mom.
Or the nuns.
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Not making them like this anymore.
When I was 12 I got every issue of MAD when it came out.
Thanks for the laughs and great memories, Mr. Jaffe.
I rushed to the newstand to get the newest copy (35 cents CHEAP!)
The magazine seems rather lame by today's standards but back in the day, you were the coolest kid on the block with a stack of those. Most parents would not allow them in the house.
My parents always had a rule that so long as I was reading, and not watching brainless TV (like pro wrestling on Saturday mornings), I could read whatever I wanted. Even if it was Penthouse or Hustler. I always told them I read those for the articles. And I did. The Penthouse Forum was something else in those days.
A person who made the world a better place, as did the rest of the early alumni.
RIP
My boomer parents credit MAD for their remarkable sense of humor.
Having studied 20th c American history, I know there were other influences. Lucy, Ernie Kovacs, Sid Caesar, Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Allan Sherman, Marx Bros. ...innumerable others. But always, when people remark on how funny the folks are, they credit MAD.
I have never read MAD. Probably should. It may be that the mind absorbs influences better, from reading than from TV. They were saturated with tv, yet they cite this one magazine and I don’t think it was a daily.
Memories from my childhood.
Dad had a subscription to MAD. When it came in the mail, the parents read it first and then we kids passed it around.
I was the firstborn, so I got it after my parents and then I’d give it to my brother.
It was considered common courtesy to smooth the fold-in page flat before giving it to the next reader.
R.I.P., Al and thank you for the laughs.
At one time the entire staff of Mad Magazine was 5-6 guys who farmed out the printing and distribution to a production company. At that time in the early 60s they had one (a total of one!) subscriber in Brazil (I think) who let his subscription lapse.
All 5 (or6) boarded a plane for Brazil and showed up at the guys door, unannounced, to ask why.
First thought Sam Jaffey as Dr. Zorba
A number of years ago, I purchased a CD set of all of the MAD magazines every published .. one of the best things I ever bought. I read them all through at least once a year ...