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Perodical Comedy
Army Man 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Cracked 11%  11%  [ 1 ]
Help! 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Mad 66%  66%  [ 6 ]
National Lampoon 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
The Onion 22%  22%  [ 2 ]
Private Eye 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Punch 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Sick 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Spy 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 1:09 pm 
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Historically or currently,online or on the stands.

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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:41 pm 
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Historically: Mad

Lampoon transitioned comedy.

Onion is the current winner.


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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:34 pm 
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I liked Lampoon in the late 1970s.
Weren't they trying for a come back?

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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:41 pm 
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Bigger and Better!

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Beachy wrote:
I liked Lampoon in the late 1970s.
Weren't they trying for a come back?


I think that after it went through the hands of Tim Matheson and the Dorf guy, they concentrated on putting out the original run in other formats (Digital discs and books).

After they whored the name out to anyone who would pay to have it associated with their direct to video movies, the Lampoon name doesn't have the value that it once had.


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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:44 pm 
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Some classic moments in there. Also smutty, which worked well for my 16 year old self.

My favorite to this day is from the letters page:

Dear Sirs:
Call me, Fishmeal.

—Amelia Earhart

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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 7:03 pm 
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The first 23 issues of Mad are pretty unbeatable in terms of being damn funny and widely influential. Some of the best comics ever produced in any genre. But just to be perverse I voted for Cracked, because when I was a kid in the 70s I liked it better than Mad. Partly because I thought Severin was a better artist than Mad's trio of Drucker, Davis, and Torres, and party because Mad was more formulaic and predictable. Cracked was hardly cutting edge itself, but sometimes they'd do oddball things like The Talking Blob that deviated from the standard movie/TV parody template:
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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:03 am 
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Mad. Though I use to love Cracked when I was a kid. I never got into Mad until I was in my twenties.

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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:05 am 
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it was a choice between Mad and Cracked ...
so I went Mad... :dazed: :paranoid: :huh:

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 Post subject: Best Humor Magazine
PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:17 am 
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If The Onion is an option, then I don't see how anything else can compete.


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