Tongue in cheek and baton in hand, Peter Schickle poked fun at classical music and the justly forgotten P.D.Q. Bach.
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Madison Avenue had statistics and selling points but one Mad Man dared to think different.
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Death may be final but mocking the Grim Reaper is an old American tradition
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At the end of the Freud-filled 1920s, James Thurber and E.B. White launched their careers with a silly question and a spoof.
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You may think football a grim sport, but meet Alex Karras, "a clown with a fine sense of timing." And, BTW, Hitler's husband.
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No verse was too light, no rhyme was too impossible for Ogden Nash.
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“Network" did not predict populist anger -- it foresaw a network using anger to boost ratings. Sound familiar?
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Strikeouts? Politics? Drugs? Transcendental Meditation? Ask the "Spaceman," still pitching in his late 60s. All for the love of the game.
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Comedic couples come and go but there has never been a more perfect union of wit and mind than Nichols and May.
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H.L. Mencken
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For a full generation, as the world teetered on the brink, the lone voice mocking in the wilderness was truly MAD.
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Shy second grade dropout. Struggled onstage with one-liners. Without a further word, he became a clown for the ages.
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“There’s no secret to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
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A Wasabi Alarm? Astrology Charts for Bacteria? Scheduled Earthquakes? The Ig-Nobels are science for wise guys.
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Presidents are rarely known for their humor, at least not their intentional humor. JFK was.
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Our National Pastime thrived on legend until Jim Bouton toppled the pedestals. Was that Mickey Mantle pinch hitting with a hangover?
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