Inside MAD: The "Usual Gang of Idiots" Pick Their Favorite MAD Spoofs

It has long been assumed that anyone who wasted their formative years reading MAD must have wound up as a complete failure in life. But as it turns out, some readers actually went on to be...successful!

For the first time ever, MAD asked some of these successful readers to share what reading (and appearing in) MAD meant to them. What they have to say may surprise you!

Featuring essays with nouns, verbs, and punctuation by:

Roseanne Barr

Ken Burns

Dane Cook

Paul Feig

Whoopi Goldberg

Harry Hamlin

Tony Hawk

Ice-T

Penn Jillette

George Lopez

David Lynch

Todd McFarlane

Jeff Probst

John Slattery

John Stamos

Pendleton Ward

Matthew Weiner

But wait-there's more! (Regrettably.)

MAD asked some of the aforementioned "complete failures in life" (MAD's editors, writers and artists to share their all-time favorite MAD articles. What they have to say will definitely disappoint you!

Featuring the moronic mumblings of:

Sergio Aragones

Tom Bunk

Tim Carvell

Paul Coker

Jack Davis

Dick DeBartolo

Desmond Devlin

Mort Drucker

Mark Fredrickson

Drew Friedman

Frank Jacobs

Al Jaffee

Peter Kuper

Tom Richmond

And many more!

Plus, inside: a never-before-reprinted Alfred E. Neuman pop art poster! And, an all new fold-out poster: a specially commissioned look at the legendary MAD offices by Sergio Aragones!