[RedMonqey]

It's a sad day for America when a staple of America youth of the past has gone the way of Rock and Roll, the rotary telephone and Polish jokes. Used to wait for the latest copy of our favorite satire magazine to make fun of the latest movie, event and even , yes, politics. But in this day and age of PC and "wokeness", humour that must get approval from the Commissar of Culture or risk permanent banishment isn't funny, it is propaganda. William Gaines and the usual gang of idiots are spinning in their graves.

[Jonty30]

You can’t satirize our society. It just gives the left ideas.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Will Alfred E Newman Live on?

[nopardons]

Sad day indeed!

I started buying and reading MAD, when I was 10 and it was just a regular comic book that cost a dime.And funnily enough, I can still remember what was in many of those very early comic books, after all of these many decades.

[Brilliant]

Probably trying to remove an obstacle to Buttigieg.

[csvset]

Mad Fold In

So long Alfred, we have Pete now.

Wait a minute, what a joke !

[jmacusa]

I'm old enough to remember when having a copy of MAD Magazine was the equivalent of having any form of ''samizdat'' in the old Soviet Union.

[House Atreides]

TRUMP CURSE hits again.

[dp0622]

No, in fact the OPPOSITE is true.

There are SO MANY online sites that the younger generations follow that MAD lost ground.

Geez people around here sound like my father with rock and roll, God Bless His Soul.

Till has LAST DAY he REFUSED to believe “Michele” was written by The Beatles.

Things die out. Doesn’t always mean a conspiracy.

Almost always means we’re getting old :)

[davius]

Now we’ll have no way to teach future generations who it is Mayor Peter looks like.

[Rebelbase]

I was selling my brother’s old Mad Magazines out of a red wagon when I was five years old.

[Williams]

Looked at one recently, it was all anti Trump hatred.

[Rebelbase]

The best Mad Mag story I’ve read was sometime in the early 90’s their only subscriber in the Dominican Republic dropped his subscription.

Al Jaffee and the entire Mad staff flew there to talk him into renewing his subscription.

[TChad]

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
With marble baths in each john
And every room a great salon
To please his family.

A builder came, surveyed the land,
Proposed a deal for him to sign.
"I'll build it in a year, as planned;
T'will cost you only fifty grand."
And Kubla said, "That's fine."

No work was done for half a year,
A fact that Kubla didn't like;
He said, "You're way behind, I fear;
How come there are no workers here?"
The builder said, "A strike."

Two years, then three went by before
Poor Kubla stood inside his hall.
The den, he noticed, lacked a door,
And three rooms on the second floor
Had not been built at all.

"Good God!" he screamed,"You can't deny
That what you've built here is a mess!
"I'd like to know the reason why!"
To which the builder did reply, "Poor workmanship, I guess."

So Kubla Khan left Xanadu
Disgusted with his pleasure-dome
And now, near Highway Twenty-Two
He lives as many others do,
Inside a mobile home.

by Frank Jacobs for Mad Magazine

[jarwulf]

I liked Mad and they have always been left leaning but lately it was just 80% rehashes and Drumpf this and Drumpf that. Theres a billion other places to go if this is what you want. Gotta stay relevant somehow.

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

Like Saturday Night Live it became unfunny and moronic years ago.Get the anthologies of 60s and 70s issues. You can still get the old paperbacks.

[FreedomCalls]

“Go woke, go broke.”

[Impala64ssa]

Alfred E. Neumann even had a hit song in the late 60's, It's a Gas!

[mrsmith]

Aw, too bad.

[Billthedrill]

When political humor seemed to work, MAD doubled down on lampooning the Trump administration, which earned some critical praise but likely alienated conservative readers...

Ah, what a pity. Who did they think were buying their magazine?

[Zhang Fei]

Impressive that it outlived Cracked by 12 years. Meanwhile comic books featuring protagonists in skintight rubber costumes continue to be big. Go figure.