I used to read Cracked as well as Mad as a kid in the 70s, and if anything it was more kid-friendly than Mad.
Looking at the Cracked website, I was surprised to see things like “you’re trying to nail a Brazilian woman” and “While Morning Guy is usually right, Night Guy is persuasive. It’s why he gets so much more pussy than Morning Guy”.
Does the magazine have stuff like that now, or just the website?
Don’t be a douch, what would Jesus do? Give the jew girl toys.
Fucking great.
I’m just stunned that there is still a Cracked magazine. Wow, who knew?
It’s changed owners several times recently and spent 2005 on publishing hiatius, but it’s supposed to reappear in 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracked
Holy shit, I didn’t know they were in that AMI building that got the anthrax letter in 2001. I worked right next to that building for many years and only thought it had the tabloids.
I remember reading Cracked a few times during the Nixon administration. It was simply a very close copy of Mad, complete with its own version of Alfred E. Neuman.
Of course, that was before it won all those Peabody Awards.
Well, see, that was probably the problem. Sure, Peabody may have liked it, but if you can’t sell to the Shermans of the world, you’ll end up going out of business. 
Okay, now that I’ve looked at the website, I’d have to say that rather than being an inferior copy of Mad, it’s an inferior copy of The Onion.
I’ve been reading Jay Pinkerton blog for a while now, and today I see he’s now the new editor of the new Cracked magazine:
http://www.jaypinkerton.com/blog/archives/001411.html
I guess I didn’t notice his name in the Wikipedia article.
He was former Managing Editor of the National Lampoon and sometimes has some very funny stuff on his blog, like his Superman and Batman origin comics.
“Close copy,” nothin’. They used to re-run whole articles, with new artwork.