Salon.com > mad magazin http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 11:41:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A Mad magazine documentary is in the works http://www.salon.com/2013/02/06/a_mad_magazine_documentary_is_in_the_works/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/06/a_mad_magazine_documentary_is_in_the_works/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:41:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13192534 Mad magazine, oft credited as the pioneer of satire and absurdism in mainstream American culture, celebrated its 60-year anniversary in 2012. Now, thanks to a Kickstarter project, a documentary is in the works to explore the influence of the comedic mainstay since its inception in 1952.

"When We Went MAD" will include interviews with 20 original and current Mad contributors, including Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker and Dick DeBartolo. It'll also cover all six decades of Mad's history, following "Totally MAD: 60 years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity," a 2012 anthology devoted to "the thousands of jokes that have died on the pages of MAD."

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