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What, me worry?<\/p>\n
For some of the current late-night TV hosts, the answer is yes when it comes to MAD Magazine<\/a>\u2018s newly released June issue.<\/p>\n A few, though, manage to escape the 73-year-old humor magazine\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n The cover, revealed earlier this month<\/a> and illustrated by longtime\u00a0Mad\u00a0artist Tom Richmond, imagines a sleepover featuring several of late night\u2019s biggest names. Under the header \u201cMAD\u00a0Stays Up for Late Night,\u201d Jimmy Fallon<\/a>\u00a0spins a ghost story while\u00a0Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Seth Meyers<\/a>\u00a0hover over a Ouija board.\u00a0Jon Stewart<\/a> paints\u00a0John Oliver<\/a>\u2019s nails,\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>\u00a0snacks on chips, and\u00a0David Letterman<\/a>\u00a0curls up in a sleeping bag\u2014unaware that MAD mascot Alfred E. Neuman is doodling \u201cPutz\u201d across his face with a marker.<\/p>\n The issue\u2019s actual content, though, falls well shy of the well-considered cover\u2019s promise. <\/p>\n Basically a compilation of late night-themed send-ups from the magazine\u2019s past with a few fresh features sprinkled in, \u201cMAD\u00a0Stays Up for Late Night\u201d opens with a table of contents accompanied by an archival illustration of Johnny Carson at his desk, surrounded by short-lived daytime\/late night talk show hosts such as Joan Rivers, Tony Danza and Pat Sajak.<\/p>\n Following \u201cA MAD Look at Late Night TV\u201d (\u00e0 la the magazine\u2019s recurring series of cartoon vignettes), the first major feature is \u201cThe 38 Worst Things About Late Night TV!\u201d Though pretty pointed\/sometimes vicious (as is the magazine\u2019s well-established style), the recycled countdown instantly dates itself with repeated digs at David Letterman, the premise that Stephen Colbert still hosts The Colbert Report, and references to Last Call with Carson Daly, Craig Ferguson\u2019s The Late Late Show, and Lopez Tonight.<\/p>\n There is a seemingly new, late-night talk show-set installment of the long-running \u201cSpy vs. Spy\u201d capers (wait, there\u2019s now a grey spy?!), followed by dusty \u201cMAD Deconstructs\u201d breakdowns of The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (meaning, back when his name was in the title).<\/p>\n The rest of the fiftysomething-page issue is largely filled by rehashed and generic TV-themed satires\u2014save for an easy \u201cGuest Types You\u2019ll See on Late Night TV\u201d (e.g. The Former Child Star, The Rebranded Comedian), and \u201cA Eulogy for Colbert\u2019s Late Show.\u201d <\/p>\n The rhyming eulogy, accompanied by a sharp illustration by Hermann Mejia, is clearly the issue\u2019s freshest content, with allusions to the charity auction Colbert has been running during his farewell season, and an excerpt from the Bad Bunny \u201cQuestionert\u201d released in January.<\/p>\n The themed issue features not one but two of MAD\u2018s trademark Fold-Ins. One is a previously published nod to Letterman\u2019s heyday, while the other is brand-new, featuring Colbert about to blast off astride a rocket with a crudely illustrated Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon waving goodbye below. (We wouldn\u2019t dare spoil that completed Fold-In\u2019s message.)<\/p>\n Interestingly, outside of Seth Meyers\u2019 inclusion on the cover, that Fold-In\u2019s drawing of him appears to be the Late Night host\u2019s only other appearance\/mention in \u201cMAD\u00a0Stays Up for Late Night.\u201d Similarly, though John Oliver is also featured on the cover, he and Last Week Tonight are the target of zero zingers.<\/p>\n Bill Maher of Real Time, meanwhile, is ignored entirely\u2014absent from the \u201call-stars\u201d cover and not alluded to once on the inside pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Mad Magazine What, me worry? 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