MAD Senior Editor On Spoofing Celebrities

Joe Raiola is juggling several jobs at the moment. There’s his stand up comedy up act (The First Amendment, a one man show), his radio work (he appears every Sunday on The Woodstock Roundtable) and his upcoming John Lennon tribute concert (with Yoko Ono‘s blessing, of course). Then there’s his day job as senior editor of MAD magazine. Raiola has been with MAD for 28 years, and says in a lot of ways, nothing has changed. “The thing you have to keep in mind about MAD is: If you mature, you get fired.