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* [[wikipedia:Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells|Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells]].
* ''[[Yes, Virginia]]'' was a response to an actual letter to the editor from an 8-year-old girl.
* ''[[Two Thousand AD (Comic Book)|2000 AD]]'' has always had its letters answered by Tharg The Mighty, except for one time in the [[The Nineties]] where characters from ''Vector 13'' took it over while Tharg took a leave of absence.
* In [[Mad Magazine]]'s "Letters and Tomatoes Dept", letters were typically answered in a snide and insulting manner. They also published many letters that mocked the magazine creatively.
 
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== [[Comics]] ==
* [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Nineteen Sixty Three|1963]]'' would have a fictional [[Letters to Thethe Editor]] page, parodying the columns [[Stan Lee]] would put out for Marvel in the [[The Sixties]].
* Letters to the ''The Sensational [[She Hulk]]'' were answered by the titular character or one of her supporting cast.
* [[Ambush Bug]] answered his own letters, and in his first issue was puzzled that he had to wait months for feedback from the reader who had just finished the book.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Parodied by the ''National Lampoon'': Its Letters section had funny made-up letters, often supposedly from celebrities.
* [[PG Wodehouse (Creator)|P. G. Wodehouse]] dealt with this in the "A Letter to the Editor" chapter of ''Louder and Funnier'', in which he includes his poem, "Dear Sir: I take issue with Walter S. Swisher."
* Famously, pornographic magazines like Penthouse had letters pages where people wrote about their sexual experiences; most were made-up by the magazine's writers.
 
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Oh! Calcutta!]]'' has a song about them.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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