Product Description

An illustrated compilation of the craziest humor published in the 1960s in the nation's craziest--and most popular--humor magazine includes movie parodies, political satire, memorable MAD covers, classic features, and much more. QPB.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #242510 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Amazon.com Review
When American kids of a certain vintage--Bill Clinton, for example, but not Bob Dole--put down their childish things, they picked up MAD magazine. It didn't leave their hands until adulthood hit, and maybe after. The magazine ain't what it used to be, so it's easy to forget how keen it once was. MAD About the Sixties is a long-overdue collection of material from that seminal humor magazine's salad days. It's a welcome reminder that when MAD was good, it was very, very good: it featured solid writing coupled with great art, month after month. The movie and television parodies ("Bats-Man," "Star Blech") are sure to be a hit, whether you saw the originals the first time around or as reruns. While it helps to have lived through the era--particularly for the ad parodies--there's enough generic daffiness in MAD About the Sixties to satisfy the reader who never saw Wings, much less Paul McCartney's other band.

From School Library Journal
Grade 7 Up–MAD magazine works in much the same way as a Bugs Bunny cartoon–the humor operates on several levels. Unfortunately, today's teens won't be able to get some of the jokes. For example, Ringo Starr's BLECCH shampoo ad makes more sense if you actually remember the Breck Girl ads. The book also features people who may be unfamiliar to YAs, including Adlai Stevenson and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Still, the volume is bound to find an appreciative audience, and MAD fans will be delighted to see the first-ever Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, as well as the first MAD fold-in (featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton). Readers will also enjoy early versions of the magazine's staples like Spy vs. Spy and The Lighter Side. This volume features parodies of popular television programs like (Holy Kinsey Report!) Batman, Mod Squad, The Fugitive, and Star Trek. Teens won't know that Uptight Is a Dry Sugar Cube is a spoof on Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, but they won't need to in order to laugh about their parents' and grandparents' generations.–Andrea Lipinski, New York Public Library
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Customer Reviews

Laughing is healthy
You would like this edition.A friend of mine came from the States and lent me only once,but I must own it to read through it again.I like Mad magazines since I was a kid.To me a person should be a little mad or
funny.But also be intelligent at the same time.
Unfortunately,there are people who are only mad.

A History text of a decade, with a few boffo laughs
Great for us Baby Boomers. Younger readers will know the Beatles, but what will they make of "Nikita Kruschev" (who seems to be in more stories than anyone else), or "Cassius Clay", or Joey Bishop? If you are a baby boomer you will enjoy running barefoot through all the nostalgia, scatteringflowers and babana peels (there's even a joke about smoking them!). If you are a BB's parent you will be able to say "I told you so". But younger readers whoare not History buffs will probably start fairly quickly skipping pages to find Don Martin and Spy vs Spy.

Humorous Summary Of The Decade
This book, which is a collection of things compiled from Mad Magazine, is funny summary of the decade. Mad About The 60's covers many of the most popular movies and tv shows from the 60's with their usual style of parody. This book also features many of the funniest cartoons that would appear monthly in the magazine such as Dave Berg, Don Martin, ect. Many of the featured elements of this book have a lot to do with the attitude, politics, and lifestyle of the 60's. For a Mad Magazine fan this book is a nice buy.