Reviews For Mad Magazine


Neuman is da Man!

I've been a subscriber to MAD for just over two years, and I've thoroughly enjoyed every single issue. It's the type of magazine which can be read in one sitting or twenty, depending on your tolerance for pain-in-your-gut laughter.

The MAD editors know just how to poke fun at political leaders and criticize movies hilariously while lightening the burden of everyday life with some childish laughter.

The classics such as 'Spy vs. Spy' and 'The Mad Fold-In' are just a few of the wonderful surprises to be found in each issue of MAD!

A subscription to MAD makes a great gift, but it's even better when you get to read it yourself.

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Now I remember why my childhood was so deranged...

I was walking through the magazine section at the grocery store the other day (it's a good way to get out of grocery shopping with the wife - stop and grab a magazine and fake interest until she walks away to finish the shopping and then you are free, FREE, I tell ya!)....ummm, where was I?

Oh, yeah, I was looking at magazines and saw Madd Magazine sitting on the shelf. I didn't even know that the Magazine was still printed, so I naturally had to purchase that copy (as well as the other 20 copies on the shelf because I am sick like that). Well, it is just as funny and disgusting as I remember it being as a kid.

I personally think the TV Show Madd TV is pretty stupid most of the time, but the magazine definitely holds up against any other comedy magazine I have ever read.

I know this is short, but how much more can I say? It is sick, sick, sick, twisted humor, and I love it!


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Grrffshplort!! (My Don Martin Sound Effects Rule!!!)

I am a 32 year old man who's loved Mad Magazine since the day he almost became literate enough to read books and stuff. I found my tastes in Mad Magazine, particularly when the pages were dabbed in peanut butter and cow gristle chased by a fine, sugary Kool Aid mixed with coffee grounds (Folgers). Oh, wait, I'm thinking of that Twilight Zone episode "To Serve MAD". Yeah, that's right.

My most cherished culinary experiences with Mad Magazine were, surprise surprise, the movie and tv satires which were often funnier than the comedies they spoofed. Short list of memorable titles "Rozemia's BooBoo" "Crap-A-Toa, Ecch, With Lava" "M*U*S*H" "Star Blecch" "Buttman And Rubbin'" If you didn't laugh or chuckle at those titles, you probably actually have a sense of humor and intelligence. In other words, WHO NEEDS YOU!!!!!

The magazines influence on millions of people and their pets, their pets doghouses and birdcages, has been undeniable. And I wish they'd stop influencing because don't they know influenca is contagious? I'm gagging even as I write that. Please, no, don't throw that tomato at your screen. Your only hurting your reflection.

Back in January when Don Martin passed away, I did have a private moment of silence than began laughing anew as I dug up some of his older cartoons for Mad. There is no way I can begin to describe a Don Martin cartoon, but the minute you see one you will know his style instantly. This man was a major influence on Tom Koch, another regular contributor probably best known as creator of the Garbage Pail Kids. The influence is undeniable.

My personal favorite Don Martin -- Singin' In The Rain (the very definition of gross humor, way before the Farrellys even dreamed about Mary)One Fine Day In The Graveyard (Hamlet and Yorick -- as a chattering skull)

I wrote that just to show that I can be serious even for a moment. See, I can be serious. Look it's me -- being serious. See how serious I am. Serious Him they call me. Now its time to go organize a game of 43-man squamish. Does anybody have a five-cornered flutney I can use for a weekend?

That's not even mentioning such idiocies like Spy vs. Spy, profound moronic-ness like "The Lighter Side Of..." the completely forgettable "The Mad Index Of Weights And Measures", and other classic wastes of whatever plant it is we get ink from.






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The only truly honest source in all of media

By the 1970s it was apparent that the humor industry giant, Mad Magazine, wasn't about to go under, with it's readership only overmatched by the TV Guides and Reader's Digests of the day. Today it is still a force, mainly because the magazine has managed to achieve something that many publications today lack: a sense of honesty (not to mention one hell of a sense of humor!).

The writing of such underlooked geniuses as Dick DeBartolo, Stan Hart, and Dave Berg, do not serve merely to fill the page space in between MAD's artists' uncanny celebrity renderings or cartoon-ish original creations. Both the writing and art complement each other perfectly, a symbiotic relationship that the entire staff comprehends and makes work for them, issue after issue.

If my plans come true, and I am a notable comedic writer someday, I will never bat eye while admitting that MAD's writers are the biggest influence I ever had. It takes a lot for a publication to cast nearly 500 "low-blows" per issue (aimed at everyone and everything in pop culture & the news) and still command the highest level of respect in the business. Perhaps the world has a sense of humor after all. Yeah, that must be it.


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Now Y2k Compliant

Mad Magazine is an oldie but a goodie in my opinion. Mad has been around for a while and I've been a subscriber to this magazine for about 2 years. What makes MAD excellent is how funny it is. Every issue seems to have a "theme" ; Like the "MAD : NOW Y2K COMPLIANT" mostly satires Y2k Insanity and computers. The magazine starts out with letters replied by "Ed". Ed is increadibly rude to people but quite funny. Next up, in almost every issue there is a section called a "A mad look at <whatever>". In which there is several pages of wordless comics mocking the desired topic. Next there is the "Monroe" comics which I usually skip over because it's kinda stupid; Slightly funny. Of course, Spy vs. Spy is pretty interesting. That is in every magazine. My favorite part of the magazine, however, is "The lighter side of..". It is the section which just covers a bunch of random topics like school and sports and mocks them. It is also the most witty of all the sections I think. Usually, on every last page there is a "Mad's Celeberity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds" which takes a popular celebrity and tell how they're gonna die. Such as Ricky Martin
Cause of Death Betting Odds
Devastating hip-swiveling stage 2:1

There is usually about 6 different things.
On the back page(inside), there is the famous "Mad Fold-In" which folds to reveal a satire of something else.


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It's A Mad World and I'm Happy to Live in it

I buy this magazine because it's incredibly funny. In my opinion, this is probably one of the best magazines ever. The movie/TV show parodies are hilarious. Just about everything in this magazine is funny. I think the fact that they can always find new and original material that's funny, has helped them in lasting on the magazine rack for so long. Other similar magazines, such as Cracked, are funny, but still don't match up to Mad's usual gang of idiot's. I like just about everything in this magazine, but if I had to pick a favorite comic in this magazine, I'd have to go with the never ending battle of Spy vs. Spy. Only one spy can win the great battle. This comic is almost every Mad Magazine. The jist of this comic is that one spy is trying to outsmart the other. Both spys do try this. By the end the other spy usually comes back with a great defense and his enemy perishes in a painful death. I know this doesn't sound funny, but it is. Some things that Mad writes are mean, but you have to look at the funny parts. The writers are only trying to get a laugh out of the readers. The magazine Cracked is funny and you might want to try it, but Mad is definetly funnier.


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"The usual gang of idiots" never fails!

MAD magazines are one of the best magazines around. So many magazines today are all about fitness, video games, news, and what not. What we really need in the world are more Magazines like MAD, that make you laugh so hard you pee in your pants when you read. That's how funny MAD magazine is, and they leave no stone-unturned making fun of everybody and anybody. They run parodies of good and bad movies all alike making sure they've gotten a great joke into every frame of the comic. The First time I read MAD I thought, how good could this magazine be, it's not even in color. Of course I was a young boy back then, and preoccupied with pretty colors. Then I read the magazine and thought it was the funniest thing I had ever read, and now I'm a long time reader and subscriber. There are also some great comics that MAD has produced by themselves in the magazine that aren't parodies of anything such as the infamous Monroe, who is part of your stereotypical white trash family, drunken divorced father; slutty mother; dorky tries to be cool kid. We've followed his adventures from Skiing to Tom Jones, and to many other places, and he just continues to get laughs from me. Then there is the classic Spy vs. Spy; even though they have no words, their actions to destroy each other are always funny. There are some more regulars, and there are also the special inserts that have to do with making fun of pop culture's latest trend. As for those that claim that MAD is offensive, in the words of ED, the letter guy, "you're a shmuck!"It is a great magazine and I recommend it to anyone looking for a great laugh.


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Not Just For Kids

When I was 8 I started reading Mad for the pictures,the jokes about bodily functions, and Spy vs. Spy. Now I read it for the political satires, and the lambastings of movies I have seen. What strikes me the most is their refusal to take ads or hold anything sacred. The writers poke fun at Newt and Slick Willy, Dubya and Gore, not to mention a slew of media darlings. They aren't even above poking fun at themselves. This frank honesty and potty humor surprises some, shocks a few, and disgusts parents everywhere. Most of the humor is universal, which makes it stronger than other exclusive magazines. If you're looking for a laugh, pick it up, if not for the satire, than for the latest jokes about erectile dysfunction.


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MAD about MAD

I have been reading MAD magazine since I was in elementary school. I am now in college and read it just as much. It was one of the few things that I could sit down, read, and just relax and laugh my butt off. Not a lot has changed in MAD. It still has parodies of just about anything in the mainstream. Want to get the skinny on a movie you want to see? Just read a MAD and find out. There are tons of other sections too. One of my favorites is titled Melvin and Jenkins. Melvin and Jenkins is a current day Goofus and Gallant (a throw back to my Highlights days). Melvin is an idiotic malcontent while Jenkins is an upstanding citizen. Each month a new topic is chosen to see how Melvin and Jenkins contrast. MAD also has many of the comics that have been there for years, including "A MAD Look at...", "Spy vs. Spy", and "Mad about....". If anyone is looking for comic relief to get away from the real world for awhile, just pick up an issue of MAD and relax.


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I'm MAD about this Magazine.

One the most outrageous magazines of all time, MAD gives us a look at the "flip-side" of life in america. Whether its the hypocondriac, Mr. Kaputnik, or the classis "Spy VS Spy", you'll definately be laughing out loud every time you pick up a copy. It's jam packed full of parodies of our favorite movies and TV shows, comical advertisements and fake catalogs of some very interesting merchandise, and as always, as many wisecracks and sarcastic remarks as possible. This mag has been a favorite of mine every since I was a little kid, and even present day. Due to the graphic nature of this magazine, I wouldn't recommend it for children under 12 or so, but this magazine is for EVERYONE else. I would even go as far as saying it is geared towards adults. If you've never seen MAD magazine, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy soon. You wont regret it.


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