Letters to the Editor
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Anonymous
Why, thank you Anonymous. Say ... you're not "Silenced" in disguise trying to pull me middle leg now wouldya be?
Anyway, stalking and getting more and more irrational and personal about it is not mere criticism. It's wobbling over into dangerous loony territory.
Berk's use of the Feiffer dancer theme is too blatant to ignore and I'm calling him on it. And I guess I could have been more specific that if Berk's dancer just had one of Don Martin's famous hinged feet, he would be uh, "borrowing" from Martin's catalog also. I can't remember who at Mad Magazine did most of the song parodies.
I quit reading Mad and stopped watching Saturday Night Live when they ceased to amuse me. It's interesting that some people like to say "When Mad stopped being funny." But the truth is, Mad is still funny, and so is Saturday Night Live. It's just that people pass a certain age and suddenly the things that were so damned hilarious in their youth just seem passe later on.
And it's true for cartoonists too. They get a hit strip and it gets syndicated and they start making a ton of money going for the same repeated gags and cute characters over and over again until it's stale. But the money is too irresistible so they keep churning out the crap until they can buy a place in the south of France, or Aspen, or both, and retire.