![]() Clay Wilson appeared on its cheap newsprint pages. In its heyday, everyone from Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller to Woody Allen and Dick Gregory to Ken Kesey and Tim Leary to Art Spiegelman and S. The Realist was a proto-underground magazine of “Free-thought Criticism and Satire” begun in 1958. Kurt Vonnegut and Lewis Black are just two of the legions of fans who cite him as a major influence and inspiration. And as the editor of The Realist he paved the way for The Simpsons, The Daily Show, and Bill Maher. He was instrumental in founding the Yippies!, those radical “Groucho Marxists” who fought the establishment in the late 1960s with theatrical, absurdist guerrilla monkeyshines. He palled around with Lenny Bruce, the pioneering 1950s “sick” comic, and even edited Bruce’s autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. And it’s been going on for more than 50 years. There’s something oddly funny about Paul Krassner. ![]()
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