“People ask me what it’s like to work at MAD,” said John Ficarra, current editor-in-chief of MAD Magazine, the long-running satirical publication which taught generations of skeptical teens to question false idols, push back at deceptive advertising, and mock authority figures. “It is a job. We come in every morning and we sit and there’s blood on the walls trying to come up with an idea that we can agree on as funny.”
