MAD magazine (and to some extent their imitators, including what issues of NATIONAL LAMPOON we could cadge, but also PLOP!, CRACKED, CRAZY, and such) were hugely influential on my 1970s cohort, including the paperback reprints of the 1950s and 1960s issues...but also SNL, MONTY PYTHON, SCTV, and the better sitcoms and even THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW had their effects...and I was lucky enough to be exposed to comedy records, including the Smothers Brothers & Pat Paulsen, Lenny Bruce and the Firesign Theater at tender ages. To say nothing of THE BULLWINKLE SHOW and its imitators.
I got a pathetic 40%. I blame the lack of questions on sitcoms of the 70s. The Multimedia Quiz was fun, too. I did better there. I got a season of Rocky and Bullwinkle for Christmas. It's just the way I remembered it.
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I grew up Mad magazine. My sense of humor was nurtured by that nutty mag.
Me, too. I still have some of the early issues that I bought way back when. Not #1, but I think I have #2.
MAD magazine (and to some extent their imitators, including what issues of NATIONAL LAMPOON we could cadge, but also PLOP!, CRACKED, CRAZY, and such) were hugely influential on my 1970s cohort, including the paperback reprints of the 1950s and 1960s issues...but also SNL, MONTY PYTHON, SCTV, and the better sitcoms and even THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW had their effects...and I was lucky enough to be exposed to comedy records, including the Smothers Brothers & Pat Paulsen, Lenny Bruce and the Firesign Theater at tender ages. To say nothing of THE BULLWINKLE SHOW and its imitators.
Robert Benchley, Jean Kerr, and James Thurber, Mark Twain, among others, didn't hurt, back when, either.
Amazing how much influence that kind of thing can have, I guess. I know all that stuff had an effect on me, one way or another.
I got a pathetic 40%. I blame the lack of questions on sitcoms of the 70s. The Multimedia Quiz was fun, too. I did better there. I got a season of Rocky and Bullwinkle for Christmas. It's just the way I remembered it.
You can't go wrong with Rocky and Bullwinkle. And besides, who cares who Roseanne's first husband was?
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