I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I…

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

— Jerry Zucker

The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd.

— Orlando Jones

Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend Ernie Kovaks…

— Orson Bean

How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the years they…

— Dave Itzkoff

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always…

— Colson Whitehead

I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could…

— Stephen R. Bissette

'MAD Magazine' put out a book that was a collection of Trump cartoons, and they asked me to do the forward because they knew…

— Jake Tapper

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew…

— Amy Heckerling

I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic…

— Rachel Kushner

I was a very young mod. The older mods at school used to like me because I brought in a copy of Mad magazine…

— Jerry Dammers

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of…

— Al Yankovic

Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my…

— Al Yankovic

Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

— Marshall McLuhan

My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw…

— Tom Tomorrow

"Mad" magazine is like one of my few formative experiences, absolutely. "Mad" magazine teaches a whole generation of people to be irreverent toward power.

— Daniel H. Pink