Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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Looking Back on 'MAD' Magazine
In light of reports that MAD magazine is on the verge of suspending publication, The Nation’s national affairs correspondent, Jeet Heer, discusses the humor magazine’s influential challenge to the status quo.
@BrianLehrer I was a pretty conservative kid avoiding trouble so reading #Mad was my walk on the wild side. We sat on the floor & read it in the corner of my parents room w/locked door. I liked the movie parodies the best.
— Tee (@uforje) July 11, 2019@BrianLehrer My late husband used to tell me that he used to carry the image of A Neuman in his wallet in defense against his friends who started to carry their newborn children.
— GriffonChibi (@ChibiChieRubi) July 11, 2019@BrianLehrer when I discovered my friend’s Dad’s stack of Mad Mags at age 10 or so I was instantly hooked- but I didn’t get the jokes! It made me start reading the newspaper in hopes of ‘getting’ the next jokes.
— Tim (@shimmellema) July 11, 2019@BrianLehrer I read Mad as a child in South Africa and it was extraordinary fir us to realize that you could in fact question authority!
— Dave Muir (@dgmuir) July 11, 2019