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Rick Biolsi
August 23, 2007

Raiola Unleashed and Outrageous

Rick Biolsi
August 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 ...

Rick Biolsi
August 1, 2007

Comedian Will Let It "All Hang Out" in 'Almost Obscene'

Rick Biolsi
August 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 ...

Rick Biolsi
November 29, 2006

Keeping Lennon's Primal Legacy: Entertainer is Force Behind Ex-Beatle Tribute Since 1981

Rick Biolsi
November 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 ... 

Rick Biolsi
March 1, 2006

Satirical Comic Misunderstood, Claims Supplier

Rick Biolsi
March 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 ...

Rick Biolsi
August 1, 2004

Raving MAD Man: Blasphemy and Humor in the Berkshires

Rick Biolsi
August 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 ...

Rick Biolsi
October 1, 2003

A MAD Sensibility

Rick Biolsi
October 1, 2003

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

Rick Biolsi
February 9, 2003

Alteractive Opens with MAD Man Spewing Opinions

Rick Biolsi
February 9, 2003

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

Rick Biolsi
August 14, 2002

O.K., You've Rejected Everything. Now What?

Rick Biolsi
August 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 …

Rick Biolsi
July 1, 2002

Joe Raiola's Divine Comedy, The Censor Within

Rick Biolsi
July 1, 2002

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

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