JANUARY UPDATES 3

UPDATES 3 Yet still more before the new stuff...

GUYS AND DOLLS (1955)
dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

COCKEYED REVIEWS THE CINEMA: GUYS AND DOLLS
Cockeyed #4, c. 1956
a: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961)
dir: J. Lee Thompson

PAPAKONSTANTANTINOU AND COMPANY
Sick #9, November 1961

HEY HEY IT'S SATURDAY
1971-1999 Nine Network

HEY HEY DOES IT MATTER DAY
Australian MAD #276, January 1988

Spoof they did of the show prior to the one I posted before.

“Media Watch” was one of their segments where viewers would send in funny newspaper and magazine articles. “Red Faces” was parodied before.

“Chook Lotto” was their version of a Lotto draw with the numbers placed on live chickens instead of something like ping pong balls, and the winner was presented a Toyota from dealer Ken Morgon.

Jackie McDonald was later co-host of the show.

THE JACK PAAR SHOW
1957-1962 NBC

JACK PAAR'S KNOW-IT-ALLS
Sick #10, December 1961
a: Leo Morey

Jack Paar was one of the first talk show hosts. I can only identify a few of the caricatures here, and after more are pointed out, I'll realize what I forgot. Right now all I can point out are Boris Karloff, Charley Weaver, Jonathan Winters, Wally Cox, Elsa Maxwell, Mort Sahl, Ed Sullivan.

JACK'S MYSTERY GUEST
Sick #14, August 1962
artist unknown

KING KONG (1976)
dir: John Guillermin

KONG DONG
Goose #3, December 1976
a: Al Scaduto

L. A. LAW
1986-1994 NBC

LA-LA LAW
Barf #1, May 1990
w: Herb Shapiro
a: Wood (not Wally)

Parodying how that and all Stephen Bochco=produced shows have large casts. The ending is a reference to the cabin scene of A Night at the Opera.

LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN
1982-1993 NBC

DAAAAAAAAVIID LITTERMAN!
Barf #3, December 1990
w: Todd Loren
a: Ken Landgraf

GUYS & DOLLS

GUYS AND DOLLS (1955)
dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

GUYS & DOLLS
Sick #121, June 1978
w: David Allikas
a: Bill Burke

Sick tried to do what MAD did parodying traditional musicals and putting them in contemporary settings. Here they updated the backdrop of Times Square's gamblers and gangsters in Guys and Dolls with the then-current life of pimps, prostitutes, porn, and drugs. If they were to do it today, it would be about tourism and theme stores. They obviously knew nothing about vice other than what they saw in TV, movies, and comics, and not using a Mort Drucker or Mort Drucker imitator, they didn't even try to attempt likenesses for the most part.

Sky Masterson was played by Marlon Brando in the movie, so he's portrayed here as Brando in The Godfather. The mayor is a pun on Ed Koch.

In order to raise money for a crap game, Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) bets Sky Masterson that he won't be able to ask out Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) from the Save Our Souls mission, a church that works in the streets, and he woos her pretending to be a recovering gambler. He ends up falling in love with her and attempts to save her church. Here she's a Moonie, a religious cult known at the time for brainwashing runaways. They were called that because they were disciples of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.