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Monday, April 18, 2022
I'VE GOT THE SECRETS
I'VE GOT A SECRET
1952-1967, 1972-1976 CBS
The premise of the game show is pretty self-explanatory, a panel of celebrities asked a bunch of questions to a person to try and guess a trait about them.
From The Population Explosion and How It Will Affect Future Living in MAD #62, April 1961, by Larry Siegel and George Woodbridge.
From TV's Effect On Children in MAD #79, June 1963, by Stan Hart and Wallace Wood
From Combined TV Shows by Paul Laikin and Mort Drucker in MAD #47, June 1959. combining it with The Huntley-Brinkley Report
From If TV Shows Were Actually Like Their Capsuled Descriptions by Earle Doud and Mort Drucker, in MAD #69, March 1962
From Russian TV Shows in Cracked #19, April 1961, by Paul Laikin and John Severin.
From If Political Figures Did TV Guest Shots in Cracked #20, By Paul Laikin and John Severin
Also, regarding the bit in Cracked #20, Eisenhower was often made fun of for his waffling way of speaking. (He could be pithy when he wanted to be; he cultivated this style to get out of having to answer questions.) Here's a famous example, which Dwight MacDonald included in his anthology Parodies:
One of the regular panelists early on was Henry Morgan, who can be seen in the pieces from Mad #79 and Cracked #20. Morgan contributed several pieces to Mad in the late '50s, after Kurtzman had left. I didn't know anything about him, but I found a profile of him on the blog of WFMU, and it turns out that he was an interesting and biting satirist in his own right, a forerunner to Mort Sahl. (The article mentions a bit of Mad trivia I'd forgotten: Harvey Kurtzman got the name of Alfred Newman from Morgan's radio show.)
Also, regarding the bit in Cracked #20, Eisenhower was often made fun of for his waffling way of speaking. (He could be pithy when he wanted to be; he cultivated this style to get out of having to answer questions.) Here's a famous example, which Dwight MacDonald included in his anthology Parodies:
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One of the regular panelists early on was Henry Morgan, who can be seen in the pieces from Mad #79 and Cracked #20. Morgan contributed several pieces to Mad in the late '50s, after Kurtzman had left. I didn't know anything about him, but I found a profile of him on the blog of WFMU, and it turns out that he was an interesting and biting satirist in his own right, a forerunner to Mort Sahl. (The article mentions a bit of Mad trivia I'd forgotten: Harvey Kurtzman got the name of Alfred Newman from Morgan's radio show.)
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