Yesterday, Mo Rocca and the crew from CBS Sunday Morning swung by the MAD offices to shoot a piece about MAD's 60th Anniversary (with an inadvertent side story about the show’s slide in journalistic integrity). The segment is going to air on Sunday (duh!) October 28th — so be sure to tune in. And in the meantime, here’s some oh-so-enticing shots of the Usual Gang of Idiots hanging out during the day of filming!
Mo Rocca generously pretends to enjoy our latest issue.
(MAD #518, on sale everywhere next week!)
Writer-artist Patrick Merrell and artist Tom Richmond
moments before their epic 45-minute arm wrestling match.
Art Director Sam Viviano can't believe he convinced artist James Warhola
to illustrate a new piece for our MAD 20 Dumbest of 2012!
The CBS camera crew peeks in on Assistant Art Director Ryan Flanders while he
checks Facebook. That's Spy vs Spy writer-artist Peter Kuper peeking out.
A rare sight: Peter Kuper working in the MAD offices rather than at his home studio.
(Of course, ANY sighting of Peter working is a rare one.)
A much more common sight in the MAD offices: writers and editors standing around doing nothing.
That's writer Matt Lassen, Associate Editor Jacob Lambert and Associate Editor Dave Croatto.
Having vanquished Patrick Merrell, Tom Richmond sizes up writer-artist Al Jaffee.
Jaffee crushed him.
Artist Tom Bunk gives a friendly squeeze to MAD's Maddest writer Dick DeBartolo.
If you combined the facial hair on these two, you'd have one very impressive goatee.
Peter Kuper's still at it. Hey, you show up at the MAD office
without your art finished, we're chaining you to the desk.
Even after a long day spent with the Usual Gang of Idiots, Mo Rocca is still smiling!
Back row: Jacob Lambert, Matt Lassen, Tom Richmond, Dick DeBartolo,
Editor John Ficarra, Al Jaffee, Ryan Flanders, Sam Viviano,
Production Artist Doug Thomson, Dave Croatto, Senior Editor Charlie Kadau
Seated behind Mo: Tom Bunk, Peter Kuper, Senior Editor Joe Raiola,
Writer Desmond Devlin and James Warhola
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