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== [[Comedy]] ==
* ''[[Mad]]'' has been decaying for so long that it's become a [[Running Gag]] at the magazine. In their 400th issue, they joked, "The second issue of Mad goes on sale on December 9, 1952. On December 11, the first-ever letter complaining that Mad 'just isn't as funny and original like it used to be' arrives.". Another joke claims that ''MAD'' [[Nostalgia Filter|was best when you first started reading it]], and if you never liked it, then it was best ''just before'' you first started reading it. Signs of ''actual'' decay, however, would include its budget cutback in the late '00s, forcing it to dump its two sister mags (''MAD Kids'' and ''MAD Classics'') and, for a time, switch from a monthly format to quarterly (currently it's bimonthly). At the [[Turn of the Millennium]] it started running real ads and publishing articles plugging other people's comedy -- stuff they would have gleefully derided in their glory days. The ads also cut down on the content per issue: The page count was increased by less than the number of pages taken up by ads.
* After years of being a more or less open copycat of ''Mad'', ''[[Cracked]]''
* Arguably, ''Puck'' (roughly, the more political, 19th Century precursor to ''[[Mad]]'') after [[Author Existence Failure|creator and main artist Joseph Keppler died in 1894]] and was replaced by [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|his son, Udo]]. The actual decay took some time, as between the elder Keppler’s death and the turn of the century, some of the magazine’s most famous and enduring cartoons were produced.
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