SIXTY SECONDS

SIXTY MINUTES
CBS 1968-present

SIXTY SECONDS
MAD #210, October 1979
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Jack Davis
This news show has been on every night... uh... like clockwork. MAD has done several parodies of them over the years. This first one was of the show in general with the original reporters Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and Morley Safer.

SIX MINUTES ON “THE RETURN OF THE DRAFT”
MAD #215, June 1980
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Jack Davis

They parodied the show again using journalist Harry Reasoner.

SIX MINUTES LOOKS AT NUCLEAR POWER
MAD #233, September 1982
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Jack Davis

Their Sixty Minutes parodies started to become almost a recurring feature similar in MAD, similar to their “[---] of the Year” articles. The show also had reporters that came and went, like here they had Ed Bradley.

AN ANDY ROONEY “60 MINUTES” EDITORIAL WE'D LIKE TO SEE
MAD #239, June 1983
w: John Ficarra

Andy Rooney had a humor opinion piece at the end of the show in the early 80s. Mike Wallace had a mini-scandal when he was caught on tape commenting the fine print in housing contracts would be hard to read “over watermelon and tacos”

SICKY MINUTES LOOKES AT SEX AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA TODAY
MAD #260, January 1986
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres

As you could see for their letters columns, the targets of MAD were usually in on the joke and you could argue their jokes may have been compromised as a result, but two places where they never pulled any punches were with smoking and religious hypocrisy.
Diane Sawyer was a correspondent for the show. The opening panel has North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms.

The next to last panel has a caricature of Phyllis Schlafly, anti-feminism architect.

Jerry Falwell, precursor to today's “war on wokeness” pundits.

Bob Guccione, as publisher of Penthouse, was Hefner's “hold my beer” competitor.

SIX MINUTES LOOKS AT SMOKING
MAD #292, January 1990
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres

Meredith Vieira was another reporter for Sixty Minutes.

The bellboy was a TV mascot for Philip Morris cigarettes.

Old Gold cigarettes had commercials with a box that had a woman's legs. What this aricle fails to mention is that decades before this Mike Wallace did cigarette commercials.

Morton Downey, Jr. was one of the last of the cigarette smoking talk-show hosts.

Sixty Minutes has covered all sorts of subjects in its long run, including the inner workings of MAD. This is from 1987, and they mention how MAD was an institution that had been around for years. This report is now older than the first issue of MAD was then.

SICKLY MINUTES
Cracked #277, December 1992
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan

Lesley Stahl became one of their regulars. Covering the George Bush Sr/Bill Clinton/H. Ross Perot presidential race This has Howard Stern, Bart Simpson, and Madonna as correspondents just in case you forger this was 1992. >

Gennifer Flowers was one of the women who claimed Bill Clinton had an affair with her.

The first panel has Jesse Jackson and the second has Mario Cuomo.