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Jun 4, 2018
Former Mad Magazine editor speaks on First Amendment in Great Falls
Jun 4, 2018
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Jun 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2017
Joe Raiola: Nonprofit President Helps Cancer Fighters Find Harmony Through John Lennon's Music
Dec 4, 2017
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Dec 4, 2017
Nov 18, 2015
For the Love of New York City
Nov 18, 2015

I’m not one given to transcendent awakenings per se, however I could sense the spirit of Dr. Winston O’Boogie sitting beside me in the mad, mad, mad world of Joe Raiola’s MAD Magazine office in mid-town Manhattan ...

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Nov 18, 2015
Nov 17, 2015
Tribute to John Lennon Endures in 35th Year
Nov 17, 2015

Tuned to “Monday Night Football” on his transistor radio, Joe Raiola nearly wrecked his taxi on Queens Boulevard ...

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Nov 17, 2015
Mar 1, 2014
Interview with a MAD Man
Mar 1, 2014

Joe Raiola is not like most major magazine editors; that much became evident when I tried to call him and reached his voicemail ...

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Mar 1, 2014
Feb 20, 2014
Monastery to Premier "Still Ignorant After All These Years"
Feb 20, 2014

Comedian Joe Raiola will perform a new piece created exclusively for Zen Mountain Monastery ay the Sangha House Performance Hall ...

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Feb 20, 2014
Nov 13, 2013
So What Do You Do, Joe Raiola, MAD Senior Editor and John Lennon Tribute Executive Producer?
Nov 13, 2013

In addition to having the good fortune of goofing off for a living in an office on Broadway across from David Letterman, MAD Magazine senior editor Joe Raiola is also responsible for the only sanctioned annual John Lennon tribute in North America ...

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Nov 13, 2013
Aug 7, 2012
MAD Man in Alaska
Aug 7, 2012

The Valley Arts Alliance and Friends of the Wasilla Public Library were proud to co-host an appearance by Joe Raiola, Senior Editor of MAD Magazine ...

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Aug 7, 2012
Sep 23, 2011
MAD Magazine Editor to Perform at Englert
Sep 23, 2011

American Heretic a show full of edgy, outspoken material, will leave an Iowa City audience questioning the roots of their religions ...

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Sep 23, 2011
Oct 8, 2010
John Lennon, Remembered on His Birthday, Through 30 Years of Tributes
Oct 8, 2010

Joe Raiola can remember the day John Lennon died "like it was yesterdary" ...

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Oct 8, 2010
Nov 5, 2009
MAD Man Speaks About First Amendment
Nov 5, 2009

Ragging on politicians, religion and the media, MAD Magazine senior editor Joe Raiola took a humorous approach to First Amendment issues ...

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Nov 5, 2009
Apr 11, 2009
MAD Man Gets Mad About Gag Mentality
Apr 11, 2009

MAD Magazine Senior Editor Joe Raiola riffs on various assaults on the first Amendment in his one-man show "The Joy of Censorship," ...

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Apr 11, 2009
Apr 1, 2009
Oh, yeah? Zip this!
Apr 1, 2009

A MAD Magazine editor brings his one-man show about free speech to Eugene ...

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Apr 1, 2009
Nov 30, 2008
A Tribute to John Lennon Keeps to its Quixotic Path
Nov 30, 2008

It’s a rabbit-hole kind of question born of today’s surreal economy: If your annual charity fund-raiser looks as if it might actually lose money, do you stage it anyway? ... 

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Nov 30, 2008
May 5, 2008
MAD Editor's Finger Censored in Yearbook Photo
May 5, 2008

An photograph of Joe Raiola is censored in a story about his anti-censorship show ... 

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May 5, 2008
Nov 5, 2007
MAD Editor Speaks on Censorship, First Amendment Rights
Nov 5, 2007

As a young boy, using the f-word saved and changed the life of comedian Joe Raiola ...

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Nov 5, 2007
Nov 1, 2007
Repeat Offender: Joe Raiola Laughs at Attacks on Free Speech
Nov 1, 2007

Joe Raiola laughs at attacks on free speech in The Joy of Censorship ...

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Nov 1, 2007
Aug 23, 2007
Raiola Unleashed and Outrageous
Aug 23, 2007

Woodstock Fringe has come up with another winner this season: Joe Raiola’s controversial one-man show, Almost Obscene. MAD Magazine’s Senior Editor, Raiola is a very funny man ...

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Aug 23, 2007
Aug 1, 2007
Comedian Will Let It "All Hang Out" in 'Almost Obscene'
Aug 1, 2007

Who says there are no new frontiers? Joe Raiola is a pioneer if ever there was one — taking risks and following paths others wouldn’t dare to ...

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Aug 1, 2007
Nov 29, 2006
Keeping Lennon's Primal Legacy: Entertainer is Force Behind Ex-Beatle Tribute Since 1981
Nov 29, 2006

Joe Raiola remembers driving his cab on Dec. 8, 1980, a typical night for the actor as he headed west on Queens Blvd. cruising for fares. But as every Baby Boomer knows by broken heart, that night was anything but normal ... 

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Nov 29, 2006
Mar 1, 2006
Satirical Comic Misunderstood, Claims Supplier
Mar 1, 2006

This article is about the response to the depiction of "Muhammad in a Pancake," which appeared in a satirical piece in MAD Magazine written by Joe Raiola in response to the sighting of the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich ...

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Mar 1, 2006
Aug 1, 2004
Raving MAD Man: Blasphemy and Humor in the Berkshires
Aug 1, 2004

In his one-man satire, Almost Obscene, Joe Raiola, Senior Editor of Mad Magazine, is mad enough to step, repeatedly, on the third rail of American culture: religion ...

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Aug 1, 2004
Oct 1, 2003
A MAD Sensibility
Oct 1, 2003

Joe Raiola works hard at pissing people off—but he also tries to make them think and laugh in the process ...

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Oct 1, 2003
Feb 9, 2003
Alteractive Opens with MAD Man Spewing Opinions
Feb 9, 2003

Joe Raiola has a bone to pick with God ... 

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Feb 9, 2003
Aug 14, 2002
O.K., You've Rejected Everything. Now What?
Aug 14, 2002

At the end of “Almost Obscene,” Joe Raiola, having fallen off a chair he had been straddling backward, and raising himself hesitantly from his sprawl, says, “I’m in a mess, and honestly I don’t know the way out …

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Aug 14, 2002
Jul 1, 2002
Joe Raiola's Divine Comedy, The Censor Within
Jul 1, 2002

“Our God is a totally neurotic, evil, codependent, sick, fucked-up god,” says Joe Raiola in clipped cadences ...

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Jul 1, 2002

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The most pressing question of our age: what is a wall?

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