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North Korea’s supreme leader, the pudgy, 30-year-old Kim Jong Un, keeps issuing nuclear threats from his crumbling peninsula (when he’s not entertaining semi-forgotten NBA rebounders, of course) — threatening to attack South Korea, the United States, and possibly parts of Guam. While nobody’s quite sure how seriously to take this guy, one thing is for certain: the whole ridiculous episode is starting to feel like a bad movie.

The current issue of Film Comment magazine features an extensive look at the history of MAD's movie parodies. As part of their research, they interviewed MAD Editor John Ficarra about the process of building each spoof and how the feature has evolved over the years.

Click through to read John's thoughts on how Mort Drucker, "horrible puns" and Louis Farrakhan have helped the parodies become an iconic part of MAD.

VIEW TO A SHILL DEPT.

Next to going to the parade and making fun of grown men wearing kilts, what better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than by ordering a new commemorative shirt featuring MAD’s own Alfred E. O’Neuman? And right now it’s on sale for a whopping 17% off! (Big deal!) Click here to order this and all the other MAD shirts before you’re too tanked up to accurately type in your credit card information.

 WE THE PAPAL DEPT.