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Interactive NY TIMES feature “ Fold-Ins, Past and Present” (use mouse to fold the Fold-In!)ĬOLBERT REPORT: “ Sign Off – Mad Magazine Stephen honors the inventor of the Mad Magazine fold-in, Al Jaffee. Mad magazine paperbacks consumed hours of my grade school attention. The ultimate treat for Jaffee fans was recently unleashed, The MAD Fold-In Collection –a deluxe four-volume set, including ALL 410 fold-ins reproduced at original size, with the “folded” image on the following page. By DCE Editorial Tuesday, October 25th, 2011. As if that wasn’t enough for these poor pishers, when Jaffee’s dad got them out of Lithuania to the U.S., she kidnapped them and took them back! Just in time for Hitler! So no wonder he’s the ultimate sillyheart he escaped misery by entertaining himself and others and made a career out of it. Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions: Leaking Pipe Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions: Leaking Pipe. He had a wretched childhood, with a hyper-religious mom who locked him and his brothers in an apartment with nothing but a piss bucket and gave all the family’s money to tzedakah, letting her kids go hungry. Even yours truly occasionally finds himself on the receiving end of these rib ticklers.Last year, I worked with Jaffe on promoting Al Jaffee’s Mad Life, his recent biography written by Mary-Lou Weisman with 65-plus new Jaffee illustrations (Heeb ran the complete prologue as an exclusive) Unintuitively it’s quite the tearjerker. Yes, life happens and life has more than its fair share of stupid questions. Then there are these classics: Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb? When was the War of 1812? When will the Beatles reunite? Hoping for an answer to these questions makes as much sense as getting milk from a bull. When “MAD magazine” artist Al Jaffee celebrated his 92nd birthday, a colleague asked, “Is this your 92nd birthday?” Jaffee replied, “No, it’s only my 29th birthday.
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While watching her husband burn his mouth on her homemade soup, a housewife asked, “Is the soup too hot?” After catching his breath, the husband replied, “It’s hard to tell with a mouth full of seared flesh.” “Fortunately, you pierced a very unimportant part of my heart,” he replied. “Did I hurt you?” she asked the man as the man clutched his chest in pain. The young cashier rolled her eyes, knowing it was a stupid question since I obviously couldn’t see age 21 with a telescope and a time machine. Remembering Al Jaffee, the longtime ‘MAD’ magazine cartoonist and creator of such beloved recurring features as the Fold-in and Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, following his. Then there is a woman who, while waiting for the bus in the pouring rain, accidentally jabbed the man standing next to her in the chest with the tip of her umbrella. “Is this quicksand?” one man asked to which the other guy replied, “Nope, it’s yummy vanilla pudding and I can’t wait for it to reach my mouth.” NEW YORK Al Jaffee, Mad Magazines award-winning cartoonist and ageless wise guy who delighted millions of kids with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of 'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,' has died.He was 102.

A story about two men sinking in quicksand is one example. Mads parodies of the first three Lethal Weapon movies, featuring art by Mort Drucker, Angelo Torres, and Jack Davis.
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When a neighbor asked, “Are you moving?” Engvall replied, “Nope, we just box up our stuff once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes.”Įngvall’s comments got me thinking about some of the stupid - but entertaining - questions I have heard over the years. The Mad Super Special reprinted movie spoofs and classic material from the magazine. Mad Magazines ageless wise guy delighted millions of readers with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of 'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.' Al Jaffee had retired at age 99. You’d see their sign and say, ‘Excuse me … never mind, I didn’t see your sign.’”Įngvall spoke about how he and his wife packed up their belongings in preparation for relocating to another state. According to Engvall, “These people should wear signs that say ‘I’m stupid.’ That way you wouldn’t have to ask them anything. Comedian Bill Engvall cornered the market on snappy comebacks for those who ask stupid questions.
