![]() ![]() What is the most embarrassing thing you have ever worn?.If your pet could talk, what’s one thing they could say that would completely ruin your image?.All we know is these stupid questions will bring bunch of laughs in your lives and will make you all happy for sure. ![]() It could be anything or even out of the track. Well, the answers really don’t have to make some sense. Trust me, these stupid questions beg for an answer. TAKEAWAY- STUPID QUESTIONS Random Stupid and Nonsense Questions.Hilarious Stupid Questions For Your Friends.Ironic and Funny Questions to Ask– Stupid Questions.Except from the practical fact of making a living doing this, it's just a lovely challenge to solve these sometimes-complicated problems. What keeps you doing it is that the public is receptive, and what's more important is that the editors are receptive to it. Paying the mortgage! Although, I don't have a mortgage anymore. ![]() What keeps you doing Fold-Ins after six decades? I'm not keeping up with everything, and so much material comes into Mad from freelance people, from outside, they're really more aware about up to the minute stuff. Or if something strikes the editors, they call me and we figure it out. From time to time, we work together on it. Jaffee: The editors at Mad really came up with that one. What made you decide to make this month's Fold-In about the Internet? Why not include more than one snappy answer? And instead of two, why not three? Why not let the reader fill in their own? I pitched it to my editor, Al Feldstein, who approved it with one criticism. So I told him that I killed her and stuffed her in the chimney.Ĭlick to see answer to the question asked by Mad Magazine 515's Fold-In: "What's the only thing unavailable on the Internet?" Mad Magazine/DC EntertainmentĪfter I apologized to my son, I realized that everybody gets bugged by questions with obvious answers. He wants to know where his mom is, and I'm on the roof, afraid of heights. I had an experience trying to fix the TV antenna on my roof and my 10-year-old comes up behind me. Jaffee: Here again, it was a one-shot idea. How does your experience working on the Fold-In compare with the other feature you created for Mad, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions? The Fold-In didn't create more money, there was nothing to gauge what would happen to copies sold if they didn't have the fold-in.Ībove: Al Jaffee performs a live reading of Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions with his friend Jeff Newelt. (Note: Jaffee said this without even a hint of sarcasm in his voice.) I don't think anybody would've broken down Mad's doors if they canceled the Fold-In. Jaffee: It's lasted so long because of my benevolent editors. Why do you think the feature has been part of Mad for so long? Right now, I keep them in storage for my children to do what they want with them later. He may have gotten to a point where he said, "Hey, I shouldn't keep this." Or it may have been new copyright laws, or sales taxes which made things complicated. On his own, he really did like all of us. It may be out of the goodness of his heart he was a good guy. I did a sketch for Esquire in 1964 where a reader requested the original, and they sent it to him! It was very common in the golden age of comics to keep the originals and do what they wanted with them. Tour the offices of DC Comics and Mad Magazine.Then I was asked to come up with a second one, and by the third one I was getting into the spirit. All these fancy magazines like Playboy were doing these fancy colorful fold-outs, and I said to Mad, "Let's do a cheap black and white fold-in." When you're a freelance writer or artist like I was, you're just trying to make your next paycheck. ![]() Those of us who wrestle with creative material, I really expected it to make a one-time sale. And because of my work on Humbug, they asked me to submit something for Mad the magazine. Then Kurtzman did Trump for two issues, and Humbug for 11 issues, which is now in a box set. Jaffee: I was in comic books at the time, and then I got involved with Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder and Wally Wood, who had worked on the original Mad comic book. Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes, Political Humor & Satire Blog, Video Archive ![]()
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