1964-1970 SYNDICATED
THE JOE NASTY SHOW
MAD #116, January 1968
w: Larry Siegel
a: Jack Davis
One of the first confrontational conservative talk-show hosts, always having deliberately provocative guests and asking them loaded questions, paving the way for the likes of Morton Downey Jr. or Sean Hannity.
THE JOE PAIN SHOW
Sick #51, March 1967
w: Jim Atkins
a: Angelo Torres
AuH2O was the slogan for Barry Goldwater, Republican Presidential candidate in 1964. The guest is modeled after Granny Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies.
Joe Pyne and Alan Burke were only portrayed in Mad once that I could find, in a backhanded valentine in #118.
ReplyDeleteIn the splash panel of the Sick parody, the picture Pyne had on his desk is of David Susskind, also a talk show host who covered controversial topics. They weren't at all alike otherwise, though. Apparently Susskind once went on Pyne's show and called it "an orgy for morons".
I've heard the "you must be a table" crack, because I'm a big fan of Frank Zappa, and he's reported to be the one who leveled it at Pyne. (He went on the show in 1966, a few months after his first album came out. Unfortunately, there's no tape.)