Inside MAD: The "Usual Gang of Idiots" Pick Their Favorite MAD Spoofs

Go Inside MAD!

It has long been assumed that anyone who wasted their formative years reading MAD must have wound up as a complete failure in life. But as it turns out, some readers actually went on to be...successful!

For the first time ever, MAD asked some of these successful readers to share what reading (and appearing in) MAD meant to them. What they have to say may surprise you!

Featuring essays with nouns, verbs, and punctuation by:

• Roseanne Barr
• Ken Burns
• Dane Cook
• Paul Feig
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Harry Hamlin
• Tony Hawk
• Ice-T
• Penn Jillette
• George Lopez
• David Lynch
• Todd McFarlane
• Jeff Probst
• John Slattery
• John Stamos
• Pendleton Ward
• Matthew Weiner

But wait-there's more! (Regrettably.)

MAD asked some of the aforementioned "complete failures in life" (MAD's editors, writers and artists to share their all-time favorite MAD articles. What they have to say will definitely disappoint you!

Featuring the moronic mumblings of:

• Sergio Aragones
• Tom Bunk
• Tim Carvell
• Paul Coker
• Jack Davis
• Dick DeBartolo
• Desmond Devlin
• Mort Drucker
• Mark Fredrickson
• Drew Friedman
• Frank Jacobs
• Al Jaffee
• Peter Kuper
• Tom Richmond
• And many more!

Plus, inside: a never-before-reprinted Alfred E. Neuman pop art poster! And, an all new fold-out poster: a specially commissioned look at the legendary MAD offices by Sergio Aragones!