The real history of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman: CBC Archives

The real history of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman: CBC Archives | CBC

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In this clip from 1977, publisher Bill Gaines talks about the real history of Alfred E. Neuman - the fictitious mascot and cover boy of Mad Magazine. Mad is an American humor magazine founded by Gaines and editor Harvey Kurtzman in 1952. It had a readership of more than two million during its peak in the 1970s. For more classic clips, go to www.cbc.ca/archives
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@MrAllan9 9 ай бұрын

I'm 69 and in my youth I never missed an issue of Mad magazine, hours of really good laughs. Thank you so much for memorise and putting a smile in my heart. ❤

@DaveMalby 10 жыл бұрын

I learned how to read on MAD Magazines .. THANK YOU BILL!

@stephenbirks6458 3 жыл бұрын

Me too and enjoyed every learning minute ! - Used to read my Uncle Johns ! - Wish I had kept them !

@Comm0ut 4 ай бұрын

MAD was a cosmopolitan ray of urban humor in an otherwise stifling era. Its impact on American culture was hilariously profound.

@bayarea3850 2 ай бұрын

I had a subscription back in the 90s for years, way before MADtv came out.. man those were the good old days ❤

@lechanneldemysterieuxmante1807 Жыл бұрын

Truly, this man brought so many laughs and enjoyment with MAD and all the EC comics, especially the horror and adventure ones.

@ytubeanon 3 ай бұрын

Alfred E. Neuman was David Letterman's grandpappy, true story!

@TJWhite-pl6gt 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome iconic individual. He'd be 95 if he were still alive. Gotta wonder if, had he would've beaten his health and weight problems, how many more years he'd still be large and in charge of MAD.

@mercurialmagictrees 6 жыл бұрын

T.J. White hmm good point I suppose

@MagmaDashE 4 жыл бұрын

Bill Gaines used to make appearances in the Magazine itself, most notably in Dave Berg's "The Lighter Side Of" section!

@mrmjb1960 5 жыл бұрын

Bill as a child was Alfred E. Neumann.

@sha11235 11 жыл бұрын

Interesting how disorganized Bill was with that letter, yet he was a person who could be very organized and orderly in other ways.

@mrmjb1960 5 жыл бұрын

You can hear poor Gaines wheezing.

@diamonddog257 5 жыл бұрын

unbelievable ; the CBC is actually good for something....

@gibstrat2671 4 жыл бұрын

Back then!

@goldguy4675 Жыл бұрын

@@gibstrat2671 I was gonna say....'was' good for something. It's now a biased political weapon.

@sugarjoe50 Ай бұрын

Long live Alfred & MAD!!

@derivesrurale Жыл бұрын

the work ethics of this man is more relevant than ever. taking no money from sponsors so you can clown on everyone. more youtubers should look into this

@CantTellYou Жыл бұрын

I agree on the principle of it, but even if KZfaqrs don’t have personal sponsors & turn off monetization from the Google Ads sponsors, KZfaq will still run those ads & hold creators to the bigger companies’ standards... except the channel won’t get a cut. It’s not really a great platform to be a full-on rebel unless you don’t care about making money at all & don’t care about losing your channel - either for a week at a time or possibly even permanently. Didn’t used to be like this! But here we are.

@johngarcia8827 9 ай бұрын

As soon as he died MAD started putting ads in the issues and using glossy ,color paper. It wasn't as funny anymore and didn't last much longer

@transformlifemusic 2 жыл бұрын

my dad apparently loved mad and had small statues of him, he died in 1997. dont know much about mad but im intrigued

@richardsanders3987 5 жыл бұрын

I have a picture of Alfred E Newman from 1914

@killerpokemon 5 жыл бұрын

you should scan it, or get a picture of it, and post it online.

@kevingage6676 3 жыл бұрын

Where is the picture? Post it here by link.

@jelly.212 10 ай бұрын

Post the link

@kronossonork6994 5 жыл бұрын

First image was from 1894 of a play called The New Boy

@joelatkinson4051 10 жыл бұрын

Aww I miss Gaines! I wish I could have met him! WHY MUST THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!??!?!!?

@sha11235 9 жыл бұрын

+Joel Atkinson He was 70, which is pretty old.

@mercurialmagictrees 6 жыл бұрын

haha Mad comedy

@hobbygamer6220 5 жыл бұрын

sha11235 i disagree

@glx4909 4 жыл бұрын

asthma?

@jameshendricks2197 2 жыл бұрын

70 isn't really that old anymore...🤔

@SophiaLenore 7 жыл бұрын

That’s beautiful!

@buzzkill9991 8 жыл бұрын

I think the mad guy is actually prince Charles

@ptofview 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like George W Bush.

@apexone5502 3 жыл бұрын

It's not. They got it from old images from the early 1900s.

@HisAssholiness 3 жыл бұрын

did you even bother watching the viddy ?

@ARedMotorcycle 3 жыл бұрын

Look at the two idiots above me that can't take an obvious joke.

@dallasradionerd 11 жыл бұрын

thankx

@dgontar 10 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure the face of Alfred E Neuman was first used in that ad William Gaines refers to. I think it dates back farther than that.

@paulbcote 5 жыл бұрын

I saw it in that french cave with the prehistoric bison paintings.

@richardsanders3987 5 жыл бұрын

I have an Alfred E Newman picture from 1914 from stuff and Wilson

@Malkmusianful 3 жыл бұрын

Alfred E Neuman's face is the first face the first human ever noticed - the first creation of his primitive consciousness

@WARP228 4 жыл бұрын

Can you put up the video of the telecast for December 28, 1967 at 3:00 P.M. on "Take 30" that featured a documentary on Mad Magazine.

@demetriusdillard2863 6 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@clownnookie Жыл бұрын

Getting ready for the 70th Anniversary issue with all new content. And you can still subscribe to help support the mag!

@johngarcia8827 9 ай бұрын

He also said the seatbelt law was police state stuff. He was right

@Dane_Youssef 5 жыл бұрын

I used to think he was the guy who created the magazine. Now I realize he represented the type that read MAD.

@sha11235 11 жыл бұрын

Nice coat Bill.

@janmathews3200 4 жыл бұрын

Loved Peter Gzowski

@gohantanaka 2 жыл бұрын

King Billy.

@allexbratson 4 жыл бұрын

who comes here for Pete Edge Edge?

@CFITOMAHAWK2 5 ай бұрын

BILL GATES OF MAD MAGAZINE AND BILL GATES OF MICROSOFT, 2 AMERICAN GENIOUS...

@theluckiesteh9058 5 жыл бұрын

If he grows his hair out, he's gonna turn into Santa Claus!

@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 3 жыл бұрын

The Jerry Garcia look...

@pennygretch 3 жыл бұрын

I was a fan of MAD Comics in the 1950's......I wondered for many years as to the origin of Alfred E Newman......I came across some of the evidence presented here, which I DON'T dispute, but here's what I believe was the origin........There was a lot of Irish dislike and even hatred loose in the land in the late 1800's and probably into the early 1900's.....I believe that the face that became Alfred E. Newman was a slam on the red haired, freckle faced Irishman, considered lazy and ignorant by the WASPs.......These perceptions were unfair and untrue, and were proven so by the Irishmen over the following years.......My Irish came here in the 1700's and fought in the Revolutionary War, but I have read the stories of lawn signs, "Irish and dogs, keep off", and other belittlement the Irish suffered in the 1800's..............Hope this doesn't take the fun out of the humor of Mad and the "Alfred" character.........It didn't for me....I was an early and thorough fan of the original MAD COMIC in the 1950's.

@ApartmentKing66 Жыл бұрын

I thought his name was spelled "Neuman."

@jameshendricks2197 8 ай бұрын

@@ApartmentKing66 It was!

@Adrian_Stone 6 жыл бұрын

Canadian audiences 1977 > Canadian audiences 2018

@pennygretch 3 жыл бұрын

....I remember when Alfred was Melvin Kosnowski.

@mikewilliams258 8 жыл бұрын

The gullibility of Americans is staggering.

@mgraves9484 6 жыл бұрын

That is so true! Some of them wanted Hillary Clinton to be President, if you can believe it!

@markfryer9880 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah and look at the Orange Joker they got instead.

@jameshendricks2197 2 жыл бұрын

@@mgraves9484 Anything would have been better than what we ended up with!

@jameshendricks2197 2 жыл бұрын

@@markfryer9880 The Orange Clown! 🍊

@ApartmentKing66 Жыл бұрын

@@jameshendricks2197 Well, at least he can find his way out of a bathroom stall, unlike your idiot.

@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 3 жыл бұрын

William Gaines and Jerry Garcia - separated at birth? 🤔

@smashingthreeplates2171 2 жыл бұрын

He looks like Karl Marx with glasses!

@burkeshaw 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes! Peter Gzowski! CBC mornings has not recovered from his passing. Jian Ghomeshi came close, but the CBC in a typical display of political correctness destroyed his career. Rest in peace CBC!!!!