Back Quote by Orson Bean

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

— Orson Bean

When I was 13, before I got in high school, I was writing mad raps. I didn't really know if it was good or…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I illustrated as…

— Joe Lo Truglio

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

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

Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the…

— Karan Mahajan

“The utter wildness of the nineteen-fifties, a decade in which 100 new religions were formed, psychedelic drug experimentation was on an industrial scale, and…

— James Mahaffey

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 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 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