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16 Aug 2017 Conversations with Tyler Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man
“I stopped reading it when I started reading National Lampoon, which struck me as more, I don’t know, a little more grown-up.”
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…And everyone’s an idiot. The first half hour is brilliant, I think. At least watch that much of it. When did Mad magazine stop being funny? And why did that happen when it did? I don’t know if it stopped being funny. I stopped reading it when I started reading National Lampoon, which struck me as more, I don’t know, a little more grown-up. Maybe I was wrong because some of the old parodies in Mad were just brilliant. It seems it was an influence on you, right?…
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