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Jeff Smith: 'Mad' magazine first taught me life could be funny — even absurd.'

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Jeff Kaplan : "Mad" magazine was essential part of my childhood and early adolescence.

It was “Mad” that first taught me life could be funny — even absurd, Kaplan says.

He says the magazine was a piece of modern, secular Jewish literature.

Kaplan: Jews have plenty to worry about the fallout from the recent assassinations of terrorists.

And to remember what it was like when I first learned to laugh at the world and at myself. Thank you, “Mad,” for being my teacher..