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25 Years of Madness What - me worry? (ALFRED E. NEUMAN )
Towards the end of 1959, one of America's most successful humour magazines, Mad, launched a British edition. Its editorial position was clear: if it exists, we can take the mickey out of it. In the last 25 years, they have lampooned everything - but principally the America we know through the cinema and television.
Christopher Frayling looks at the style and substance of the monthly magazine, with the help of the publisher William Gaines , the Editor
Albert B. Feldstein and 'the usual gang of idiots', writers and artists who have contributed to a magazine which has survived with no advertising revenue for 25 years.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Contributors

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Alfred E. Neuman
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Christopher Frayling
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William Gaines
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Albert B. Feldstein
Producer:
Carroll Moore

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