THE YESTERDAY SHOW

THE TODAY SHOW
1952-present NBC


THE YESTERDAY SHOW
Cracked #109, January 1973
a: John Severin

The Today Show has gone through many incarnations as NBC's morning news show. Its first version was The Dave Garroway Show and evolved from there. This incarnation from the early 70s had Frank Blair, Barbara Walters, Joe Garagiola, and Frank McGee.

Today was on opposite Captain Kangaroo.

THE TOO-DAY SHOW
Sick #132, April 1980
w: Arnold Drake
a: Jack Sparling

Later, it was hosted by Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley, with movie critic Gene Shalit.

Phil Donahue wasn't on The Today Show, but had a syndicated morning program around the same time.

In 1969 their line up was Hugh Downs with Walters, Garagiola, and Blair. This was the cover of TV Guide by Jack Davis.

THE DAVE GARROWUNWAY SHOW

THE TODAY SHOW
NBC 1954-present

THE DAVE GARROWUNWAY SHOW
MAD #26, November 1955
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis

The first incarnation of The Today Show hosted by Dave Garroway, previously a news anchor on radio. Television was mostly a new luxury few people had and shows like this were mostly watched from the street in windows of stores that sold television sets. Sometimes the streets were shown on TV, similar to how they are on the program today.

Also like now, the show was a combination of news and entertainment, with Garroway often upstaged by a chimpanzee named J. Fred Muggs.

A few years later, MAD had J. Fred Muggs do the cover, with a behind-the-scenes explanation of how it was done.

Unlike the humans both involved and portrayed, J. Fred Muggs is known to still be alive as of this writing.