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This magazine helped me through a horrid childhood.

I used to read MAD in norwegian back in the 90s

Awesome! Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴ The best Magazine ever created!!

MAD IS JUST DAM SPELLED BACKWARDS. SO....I GUESS IF WE REVERSE EVERYTHING WHEN YOU TALKED TO MOM YOU'D SAY," I WANT THAT DAM MAGAZINE ' OK?😊I 😂😊😊😊

MAD magazine was by BEST and MOST EDUCATING READING IN MY EARLY TEENS AND MY TEENS.😊😂😂😊😅😅

I was so influenced by the 80s issues of this magazine. I was really into drawing and cartoons, and i bought a stack of old issues from ~'84-'87. This was in the early 90s. My mom took me to a mad art exhibition where 4:58 Mort Drucker was present and I got his autograph.

I have a copy of an Aragonés drawing on my wall. It is all the way up in the corner. Nobody but me knows why it's hanging in such a strange place. That makes me happy.

In 1973 I sold the first 10 issues of Mad Comics for $15.....oops 😢

I wish i still had the mad magazines i bought in the 60s

It's been said that MAD was published by the sanest people in the world 😊 Our town library had a subscription in ghe 1970's, so I would read it there. And some of MADs run-in's with the FBI are legendary! My favorite was the $3 bill that worked in the change machines of the era. J. Edgar Hoover kept a file on MAD, considering them to be unAmerican.

iloved it... at this time i only had the german versions..of mad magazin...

MAD aka Mutual Assured Destruction was staple reading matter for me aged 6+ by having two older brothers. I assumed it was an accurate reflection of the USA. I was right.

Although the animated pilot was more toned-down than the comic to meet standards and practices; personally, though with the pilot, it does give kind of a timeline vibe to it, like it's set somewhere in between, an era where while after they just started their club, and before they became full blown toxic, that they were jerks but they didn't raise any red flags.

The Alfred/ Obama cover was funny as hell….no wonder I have a warped sense of humor….

13:01

Spy -vs- Spy!!

Spoofs of popular movies was a laugh; "A Space Idiocy" one of the best. Don Martin Steps Out; Don Martin Steps Back In---best comic books ever written.

Gibberish. MAD was only acceptable as ong as it was left wing. They attack ideals and values of REAL America and call it satire etc etcx. they never attacked a heap and horde of ideals and vales from the left wing. no credibiity. They just fit in fine with liberal left agendas in a time of a more balanced from the establishment. however then and now it was a left wing establishment. plus it probably was almost all males who cared about it. Really locker room or boy jokes. There is more and not less censorship today from these left wing people. The presumptions here of mAD as something important is mad.

Spy v/s Spy.

In the early '70s I never missed an issue. My favorite was Don Martin. His stuff was hilarious. The movie satires were great.

A#1 😂

I once bought an issue as an adult. I couldn't believe how stupid it was. Sandler jack'n'jill stupid. Maga stupid.

18:56. WRONG. If you subscribe you can still get printed MAD delivered to you.

I loved Mad Magazine growing up. Cracked was a cheap imitation.

i am so into Mad Mag in 80's

Now we have The Babylon Bee.

It's so weird hearing Gen-Zers talking about this stuff.

I miss MAD, but I think that politicians keep a copy under their pillows at night.

I never bought a single comic of any kind.

I met MAD magazine in the fall of 1960, I was starting 6th Grade. I had just decided I was an 11-year old Barry Goldwater fan. MAD fulfilled all the fantasies of a boy who also considered himself a budding artist. I have no idea how many of those pictures I redrew.

Alfred E. Buttigieg? They're dead ringers...

Mad magazine had a pic of Tony Abbott on the front.

I didn’t know it as a magazine when I was a kid in the uk, but my dad had about 5 Mad paperback books. Good n Mad, The brothers Mad, inside Mad, Utterly Mad. I think they were 'compilation' books of the magazine. I started getting the magazine in the late 70s and loved it. I still have my copy of December 1978's The Force and I, the Star Wars musical.

I read MAD magazine in the 70s as a schoolboy and wondered at their amazing "cut through" the corporate and political bs. I still remember their spoof of the movie "Patton".

This is such an excellent video, MAD is truly such a treasure. Its amazing that its remained so impactful to this very day

As a kid in the 70's and early 80's I had a subscription to MAD every year for about 10 years, and continued to read it occasionally as an adult. Some of that satire definitely seeped into my psyche and became part of my sense of humor. I'll always love MAD magazine!

4:00 how do we know this is an African American character?

At the 12.27 mark , The Poseidon Incident was parodied as The Poopside down Incident . We all had a great laugh over that hilarious magazine , and yes , it did tell it like it is , some movies had flaws and they played on them to our glee . Always well worth the price bought new .

Mad was my internet.

Spy vs Spy was funny

As a child I use to sneak & read my uncle’s Mad magazines on the top shelf of his room back in the 70s. I loved the one in ‘84 called “Purple Acid Rain” after Prince’s movie came out that year. I’m a big fan still if I can find them still being sold. The ones in the 70s & 80s were the best.

You nailed it for us Gen Zers, took the words right from me. I remember vividly coming home from school and watching an episode right after adventure time. It reminded me a lot of robot chicken since my Dad watched it all time and when it came on it was our bedtime😂 Even reading issue 118 from April of 68 knocked my pecker off. It’s so true even now!

Mad Magazine may have made me into the conspiracy theorist I am.

My childhood best friend lived and died by this magazine. He had all issues and was forever laughing at it, and encouraging me to read it. He passed on last year at 74. I'm 74 and did not know it was out of print till this video.

I was a fan during the late 60s through the 70s, it was a largely aimed towards the middle class blue collar population, but the high costs of printing and the technology of the Internet which killed off a lot of print media led to its demise. It also didn't help that during the 80s and 90s and through the end, it became hugely bent towards left wing politics, something that probably discouraged a lot of middle class readers.

f_n musak

My next door neighbor brothers my age had like every comic there was than the stupid ones like casper etc so I mean I read a LOT of comics over there but they also loved MAD which I dont know why but It totally bored me. I especially did not like the character alfred E newman.....i didnt get why that was entertaining but then again I was busy entertaining myself at the expense of society in general. I was fucked up and fucked up loads of stuff around but I just was not entertained at all with making fun of fucked up things...go figure ....Its like I appreciated the status quo but was personally incapable of BEING such if that makes any sense at all. Which is probably why I am bored to tears with TV comedy especially anything with a laugh track which I find beyond lame....why am I writing this??? no idea

I live in Oklahoma and I remember reading Mad magazine quite a few times in the early 1970s when I was 12 or 13. To this day I still remember a page which showed 6 men sitting on 6 chairs and they had a revolver with one bullet in it. Starting on the left the first man puts the gun to his head and pulls the trigger but it just clicks. He got lucky. Then he passed it to the next guy. Each one gets lucky until finally the gun is passed to the last guy. So the last guy suddenly stands up and aims it at the previous guy and shoots him and the bullet goes through five guys heads since they are all sitting in a line. I remember getting a laugh out of that. Why do I remember that so well when I don't remember much else very clearly? I don't know.... childhood is strange.

My brother's friend gave him all his magazines, and my mother trashed them. there was to be no joy in her house, I had three brothers that I could not talk to or visit in the house. she was probably insane

How I miss Mad and those satires. It lasted almost 50 years, helped EC to survive, outlived all its (inferior) imitators, and it still shapes my thinking. Here’s hoping it will be revived at some point.