For American kids coming of age in the early 1970s, Mad magazine was many things. It was a guilty pleasure. An eye-opening first look behind the curtain of the adult world. Just plain fun. For a nerdy ...

Thanks to satire like The Simpsons and The Daily Show, it’s hard to imagine a time when irreverent humor wasn’t everywhere. But the 1950s were much different. Anti-establishment humor wasn’t part of ...