Candice's dad was Edgar Bergen FAMOUS actor, comedian and mostly known as ventriloquist of "Charlie McCarthy" and "Mortimer Snerd" fame. Candice was on TV a lot as a kid because of Her Dad's fame... was a famous model often on the cover of Vogue. She then starred in a number of movies in the early 70's "Carnal Knowledge" perhaps the best known.
A few years ago I bought a stack of 80s Mad magazines from a garage sale from a guy in a mesh Dan Marino jersey who promised I’d love “goofin” on them. Loved them as a kid, really amazed at the quality of the gags and the art. Really fun reading the “lighter side” which was all references to 60s anxieties
Sam Viviano is hands down one of my all time favorite artists. He art directed MAD until DC left NY for Burbank. Him and Ryan Flanders are two of the most amazing people in this world. I'm also the proud owner of 2 of Sam's MAD pieces from #261
The reason the original writers of SNL loved Candace Bergen was because she was the first host that didn’t try to micro-manage them. She hosted the fourth episode, I think, and it’s the first of those early few that feels like what we think of as Saturday Night Live. So Lorne Michaels and the writers had a huge soft spot for her. A great unauthorized (read: true) book about the early seasons is Saturday Night by Hill and Winegrad
I am so friggin jealous. Mad mag was so essential to my youth. Spent so much time in library reading issues of Mad and Cracked. I'm so stoked for all the upcoming content!!!
Spy vs Spy! Al Jaffee fold covers! At any newsstand over the years I would always find a Mad mag with the backcover folded already! Lol! I miss this goofy stuff,guys! Great 👍 video! Keep reading and making comix! Tadah!
Oh man, hell of a nostalgia trip to when I first got MAD magazines as a kid! My first MAD was a British reprint that combined some features from the June and July issues seen in this video. The fold-in that Ed tries at 20:35 was my very first fold-in!
Do a compilation episode of Mad superhero spoof's. That Batman/Michale Keaton one is a favorite, the art is spot on! Jack Davis pencil work is dope, the likeness in his caricatures is amazing.
Screener video copies ... haven't though about those in 30 years. Worked in a video store and that was the best perk... being able to watch those screener copies sometimes several months in advance of the films being released on video.
The Roger Rabbit January 1989 issue they have at the top of the stack was my first ever issue of MAD as a kid! My mom bought it for me, because she read MAD as a kid too.
I feel like Mad is pretty well-archived, is there anyone that's archived Cracked like that? There's like 5 decades of great John Severin art that feels like it's in imminent existential danger of just getting lost to time.
That was better than I thought it'd be. Of course my top suggestion would be the 4 1/2 issues Kurtzman did at the beginning of the magazine run, # 24-28 in 1955-56. He was basically inventing a new format for cartooning that spread through the publishing world like wildfire, and all of those great EC guys adapted brilliantly to the black and white media. Also you had a lot of fairly well-known satirists from contemporary culture show up, guys like Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs.
I had many of these issues, and later the reprint collections. Definitely formative, kickstarted my pop culture knowledge, and basically "comics" for me. MAD artists had such a variety of styles and really made the most of halftones on newsprint. I never thought about it at the time, but it was so rare to see the medium used in this way anywhere else - and it looks so good this way, typeset letters and all. In an alternate universe, maybe we would have had a western Shonen Jump equivalent in this format and pushing this variety in more genres, instead of the windy detour that built the direct market. The peak circulation numbers for MAD were in the mid-70's, so that could be one place to continue this series.
Candace Bergen started as a model and turned actor. I don't know if she was dating someone involved with the show or something but she was an early host and the first to host twice. She hosted an episode with Frank Zappa as musical guest
These were my first experience with MAD. They screamed out to me from the newsstand at a local mom n pop grocery. Still remember asking my mom what “MAD” meant
I grew up with MAD from the tail end of the 70's through the 80's, occasionally checking it out in the 90's and beyond for good measure. All great stuff, but it was without a doubt hardest-hitting from the mid-1960's through early 1970's. MAD has always reflected the times, and that era brought about some particularly cynical, nihilistic material!
I just visited my mom in Florida, and as a ritual i visit new comic book stores in places i've never been. Local shop had a discount bin with MAD for a few bucks each. I selected a run of 5 70's era issues i had never read, from 71 to 76. I would have paid 5x for the nostalgia hit. And that smell of the newsprint.
At a glance, year by year yes!!! Please god!! I bought MAD in the 80's before i bought comic books. I'd be interested in the post-early transition to the modern format. 60's or 70's?
I had the issue with the movies recast with wrestlers. I’m pretty sure that was why I watched “Casablanca” for the first time. It became one of my favorite movies. I sided with Macho Man when the Mega Powers broke up, and I think because of that I’ve always been partial to Victor in the movie (though the characters and the movie are quite a bit different than the wrestlers and that storyline).
Candice Bergen can be seen in the interstitials of Walt Disney’s Fun And Fancy Free (the one with Mickey’s Jack and the Beanstalk) she’s in it with her dad and his dolls. Candice was also tide into the Manson murders because her boyfriend Terry Melcher, was pretending to produce Manson’s music in order to party with Manson’s girls. Melcher pissed Manson off pretty bad when he figured out Terry had no intention of pushing him to stardom. Later the Tate murders were committed at the house Candice and Terry used to rent in the Hills when Terry and Manson knew each other. What me cryptic?
ah... so true. 1989 Mad magazine has such a sweet spot and think you are right that same audience wasn't far away from Wizard. New release movies use to take 6-12 months to reach us in the cinema's so mad magazine spoofs were the first way to 'see' a movie. Took me awhile to realise they were spoofs cause its kinda like "this didn't happen in the movie" .... ah to be young and naive.
Loved Mad. I remember when I was about 7 or 8, I found all my Dad's old issues and read them for hours. He started buying them for me after that, so I actually had most of these issues. Too bad they got bought out by Warner.
This was definitely my first Eisner exposure. I woulda been 9. I'd love to see more of this era, maybe '88? I remember writing a letter to Mad and getting a "signed" picture of Alfred E. Neuman in return.
Candice's dad was Edgar Bergen FAMOUS actor, comedian and mostly known as ventriloquist of "Charlie McCarthy" and "Mortimer Snerd" fame. Candice was on TV a lot as a kid because of Her Dad's fame... was a famous model often on the cover of Vogue. She then starred in a number of movies in the early 70's "Carnal Knowledge" perhaps the best known.
There was a popular Bergen/McCarthy radio show back in the day. It takes a special genius to become a radio star as a ventriloquist.
@@russworks2882 I would think it would, in fact, be very simple to be a ventriloquist on the radio.
A few years ago I bought a stack of 80s Mad magazines from a garage sale from a guy in a mesh Dan Marino jersey who promised I’d love “goofin” on them. Loved them as a kid, really amazed at the quality of the gags and the art. Really fun reading the “lighter side” which was all references to 60s anxieties
Sam Viviano is hands down one of my all time favorite artists. He art directed MAD until DC left NY for Burbank. Him and Ryan Flanders are two of the most amazing people in this world. I'm also the proud owner of 2 of Sam's MAD pieces from #261
Thanks for reviewing these man, I couldn't believe how much of these I remembered and I haven't had my hands on these since I was around 9 years old.
The reason the original writers of SNL loved Candace Bergen was because she was the first host that didn’t try to micro-manage them. She hosted the fourth episode, I think, and it’s the first of those early few that feels like what we think of as Saturday Night Live. So Lorne Michaels and the writers had a huge soft spot for her. A great unauthorized (read: true) book about the early seasons is Saturday Night by Hill and Winegrad
I am so friggin jealous. Mad mag was so essential to my youth. Spent so much time in library reading issues of Mad and Cracked. I'm so stoked for all the upcoming content!!!
PW BOTHA GETS THE GAS FACE!
Please more MAD, guys!! It fills the hole the reprints have left. What a shame
Love MAD, love Mort Drucker. So glad you’re looking at this stuff!
Botha was leader of apartheid South Africa
Spy vs Spy! Al Jaffee fold covers! At any newsstand over the years I would always find a Mad mag with the backcover folded already! Lol! I miss this goofy stuff,guys! Great 👍 video! Keep reading and making comix! Tadah!
Oh man, hell of a nostalgia trip to when I first got MAD magazines as a kid! My first MAD was a British reprint that combined some features from the June and July issues seen in this video. The fold-in that Ed tries at 20:35 was my very first fold-in!
Sam Vivano is such an underrated Mad artist
Do a compilation episode of Mad superhero spoof's. That Batman/Michale Keaton one is a favorite, the art is spot on! Jack Davis pencil work is dope, the likeness in his caricatures is amazing.
Love the channel, always awesome content!
Awesome! Love MAD. A lot of gems in there. Can't wait for another episode.
Screener video copies ... haven't though about those in 30 years. Worked in a video store and that was the best perk... being able to watch those screener copies sometimes several months in advance of the films being released on video.
The Roger Rabbit January 1989 issue they have at the top of the stack was my first ever issue of MAD as a kid! My mom bought it for me, because she read MAD as a kid too.
Wow so many memories, Thank's!
Yep! That’s definitely Stan Hansen in No Holds Barred!
Bring More Mad!! I loved this video! Thanks
Not gonna lie, I was way more into Cracked as a kid, but holy shit do I appreciate seeing Mad more as an adult.
Grant Wood, Gene Shalit 😅
Super nostalgia! 80's Mad and Cracked magazine was my jam!
What the hell?? What a great collection of Mad! I remember having a ton of these from that same era.
Mort Drucker and Angelo Torres were my childhood spirit animals
I feel like Mad is pretty well-archived, is there anyone that's archived Cracked like that? There's like 5 decades of great John Severin art that feels like it's in imminent existential danger of just getting lost to time.
That was better than I thought it'd be. Of course my top suggestion would be the 4 1/2 issues Kurtzman did at the beginning of the magazine run, # 24-28 in 1955-56. He was basically inventing a new format for cartooning that spread through the publishing world like wildfire, and all of those great EC guys adapted brilliantly to the black and white media. Also you had a lot of fairly well-known satirists from contemporary culture show up, guys like Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs.
Cool Collection! I have some Original Art from many mad artists.
I had many of these issues, and later the reprint collections. Definitely formative, kickstarted my pop culture knowledge, and basically "comics" for me. MAD artists had such a variety of styles and really made the most of halftones on newsprint. I never thought about it at the time, but it was so rare to see the medium used in this way anywhere else - and it looks so good this way, typeset letters and all. In an alternate universe, maybe we would have had a western Shonen Jump equivalent in this format and pushing this variety in more genres, instead of the windy detour that built the direct market.
The peak circulation numbers for MAD were in the mid-70's, so that could be one place to continue this series.
Candace Bergen started as a model and turned actor. I don't know if she was dating someone involved with the show or something but she was an early host and the first to host twice. She hosted an episode with Frank Zappa as musical guest
These were my first experience with MAD. They screamed out to me from the newsstand at a local mom n pop grocery. Still remember asking my mom what “MAD” meant
My mom taught me to read when I was 4 years old using MAD and Cracked Magazine. In kindergarten they bumped me to first grade for reading class.
I grew up with MAD from the tail end of the 70's through the 80's, occasionally checking it out in the 90's and beyond for good measure. All great stuff, but it was without a doubt hardest-hitting from the mid-1960's through early 1970's. MAD has always reflected the times, and that era brought about some particularly cynical, nihilistic material!
I just visited my mom in Florida, and as a ritual i visit new comic book stores in places i've never been. Local shop had a discount bin with MAD for a few bucks each. I selected a run of 5 70's era issues i had never read, from 71 to 76. I would have paid 5x for the nostalgia hit. And that smell of the newsprint.
At a glance, year by year yes!!! Please god!! I bought MAD in the 80's before i bought comic books. I'd be interested in the post-early transition to the modern format. 60's or 70's?
I had the issue with the movies recast with wrestlers. I’m pretty sure that was why I watched “Casablanca” for the first time. It became one of my favorite movies. I sided with Macho Man when the Mega Powers broke up, and I think because of that I’ve always been partial to Victor in the movie (though the characters and the movie are quite a bit different than the wrestlers and that storyline).
Candice Bergen can be seen in the interstitials of Walt Disney’s Fun And Fancy Free (the one with Mickey’s Jack and the Beanstalk) she’s in it with her dad and his dolls. Candice was also tide into the Manson murders because her boyfriend Terry Melcher, was pretending to produce Manson’s music in order to party with Manson’s girls. Melcher pissed Manson off pretty bad when he figured out Terry had no intention of pushing him to stardom. Later the Tate murders were committed at the house Candice and Terry used to rent in the Hills when Terry and Manson knew each other.
What me cryptic?
I remember reading these! The X-men issue was great too
I have that Roger Rabbit one! I found it at the Salvation Army a few years ago.
Do the Jaws and Jaws 2 issues this summer to commemorate the summer blockbusters!
Candace Bergen started out as a model in the 70s. I think her Dad was an entertainer of some sort too...
*Hey gents maybe you could do a "Top 20 Mad Magazine Covers of the century" episode* *Suggestion for future episodes* BTW you guys Rock Hard.
Had no idea Jaffe was still alive. I’m 10 or 12 years older than you guys was incredible in my early teens!
ah... so true. 1989 Mad magazine has such a sweet spot and think you are right that same audience wasn't far away from Wizard. New release movies use to take 6-12 months to reach us in the cinema's so mad magazine spoofs were the first way to 'see' a movie. Took me awhile to realise they were spoofs cause its kinda like "this didn't happen in the movie" .... ah to be young and naive.
Did Mad Magazine ever do an issue on the original "Highlander" movie? Thank you 🤓
Grant Wood did "American Gothic"
P.W. Botha gets the gas face.
Yo as recent as 3 or 4 years ago, ESPN had dudes playing cornhole, complete with sponsored jerseys and shit. That 24 hour padding never stopped
Question: Can You Take A Look At Mad Magazine From 2001
This is gonna be great
Maybe have a “Mad Mondays” doesn’t have to be weekly just on Monday’s?
RIP Zeus
P.W. Botha was a leader (prime minister or president or whatever) of apartheid era South Africa.
Grant Wood painted "American Gothic."
Loved Mad. I remember when I was about 7 or 8, I found all my Dad's old issues and read them for hours. He started buying them for me after that, so I actually had most of these issues. Too bad they got bought out by Warner.
This was definitely my first Eisner exposure. I woulda been 9. I'd love to see more of this era, maybe '88? I remember writing a letter to Mad and getting a "signed" picture of Alfred E. Neuman in return.
Do 1988 and 1990 in a similar style
Sweet !
Love the review, but I'd prefer a more in-depth look at each issue.
P.W. Botha was Prime Minister of South Africa during the apartheid era
FYI Botha was the president of South Africa, which was still under the Apartheid system.
The Cracked satire of Roger Rabbit was better than Mad's.
DC did MAD wrong.
SUPERDUPERMAN FTMF'nW!!!! 🖖♾