ALL THINGS: We Hardly Knew Ye?

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I saw a Laugh In special on Netflix and was surprised that they had Lilly Tomlin , Joanne Worley & Ruth Buzzi but none of the male comic's , I assumed none were still around.
 
jerseydevil said:
It has been posted elsewhere, but...for me, this is a death.

'Mad Magazine' to Cease Publication After 67 Years
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/mad-magazine-shutting-down-855767/
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I was gonna start a thread for this, but I decided that it would be too much, and I wasn't drunk enough to have the nerve, haha.

BUT for a lot, of us, and from different generations, this is very sad news. Mad Magazine was one of those constants in our lives that we could always go to. So many great artists and writers who went through there whose work will continue to inspire. :(

Plus some very un-PC humor that would be hard to pass these days.

For example, there was a fake Dear Abby like section where a mother supposedly wrote for advice. This was from '70's Mad, in which, she wanted advice about taking her kids to meet a Black Person. Ha!

The columnist told her that while it is admirable that she wants her kids to meet different types of people, her kids don't seem quite ready yet. Instead, she should start by taking them to meet a Jew first. mhihi: :rimshot: :rolleyes2:
 
orpheus said:
I was gonna start a thread for this, but I decided that it would be too much, and I wasn't drunk enough to have the nerve, haha.

BUT for a lot, of us, and from different generations, this is very sad news. Mad Magazine was one of those constants in our lives that we could always go to. So many great artists and writers who went through there whose work will continue to inspire. :(

Plus some very un-PC humor that would be hard to pass these days.

For example, there was a fake Dear Abby like section where a mother supposedly wrote for advice. This was from '70's Mad, in which, she wanted advice about taking her kids to meet a Black Person. Ha!

The columnist told her that while it is admirable that she wants her kids to meet different types of people, her kids don't seem quite ready yet. Instead, she should start by taking them to meet a Jew first. mhihi: :rimshot: :rolleyes2:
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Well said.
And appropriately indelicate at the end.

*sigh*
 
aww, I loved both of his first 2 books. Ball Four and I'm Glad You Did'nt Take It Personally. I'm pretty sure I still have them.
 
Former champion Whitaker hit by car, dies

Pernell Whitaker, a longtime pound-for-pound king and one of the greatest boxers in history, was killed Sunday night when he was hit by a car in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was 55.

The Virginia Beach Police Department said that the incident remains an active investigation but that Whitaker was apparently hit by a vehicle at around 10 p.m. Sunday when he was walking at an intersection.

"When officers arrived on scene they located an adult male victim who had been hit by a vehicle. The victim succumbed to his injuries on the scene," Virginia Beach Police Department spokesman L.M. Bauder said in a statement. "The driver of the vehicle remained on scene with police."

Known as "Sweet Pea," Whitaker, a southpaw from Norfolk, Virginia, was revered as perhaps the best defensive fighter in history as his slick moves confounded opponent after opponent.
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RIP Sweet Pea.
 
It's kinda ironic that he was hit by a car when his whole career he was hard to hit. I loved Sweet Pea, one of the '84 Olympic Gold Medal winners that won me a Big Mac!! He was absolutely robbed by the judges in the Julio Cesar Chavez fight and gave De La Hoya a battle!!
 
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