Mad Magazine Exposed, 1983

This extremely rare TV story of a 1983 visit to Mad Magazine headquarters meets up with the legendary Bill Gaines, Nick Meglin, John Ficcaro, Al Feldstein, Len Brenner and Dick DeBartolo. During the visit, reporter Jeff Strate, responding to a tip by a stool pigeon writer, launches an investigation into Mad staffer work habits.

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• Exposed
• 1983
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• DeBartolo
• Al
• Feldstein
• John
• Ficcaro
• Nick
• Meglin
• Len
• Brenner
• Gene
• Rayburn
• chaeap
• Alfie
• Afred
• Newman
• what
• me
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• satire
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• jeff
• strate
• SidFortune
• Jeff
• Strate
• Bob
• Russo
• Allen
• Brookins
• Brown

[DominoRyder]

lol what show is this from, this is so funny

[SidFortune]

@DominoRyder The story was produced out of the New York bureau of "The Afternoon Show," which was seen only in Indianapolis, Tulsa, Huston and Sacramento. If it had survived corporate poker, "The Afternoon Show" would have been syndicated around the country by Corinthian Broadcasting.

[MastoidPressMFG]

I was fortunate enough to have a subscription during the Gaines-era. The garbage they print today aint worth my time.

[SidFortune]

@MastoidPressMFG I'm glad I have many of my old copies of MAD. I remain in touch with Dick DeBartolo.

[Irondo11]

I remember hanging out at the Mad office with Nick Meglin. He gave me 2 magazines yet to be published and told me not to circulate them. Later, he made it clear he was interested in me and my tight pants...LOL I found a Mad mag under a park bench in Battery Park, NYC in 1990, and he told me that was a bad sign; that the magazine used to be shared, and sales were down. He said it was a clear sign that there was no longer an audience for intelligent political satire.

[SidFortune]

@Irondo11

Very cool Irondo. My pal Jeff Strate (who appears in this video) got to spend a number of New Years Eves in the 1980's with the Mad office crew on Dick DeBartolo's houseboat on the Hudson. Nick and Bill and the wives were among them. Great family. I still read MAD. I like satirical non-destructive edge.

[RetroToledo]

@DrHorrible13Medic A legend.

[RetroToledo]

@Irondo11 Sad really.

[DrHorrible13Medic]

R.I.P. Bill Gains you will be missed

[CelestialWoodway]

@brianpadraic He has his Bongo Comics.