Earle Doud

• Born 1927-02-14 · Died 1998-10-19

Earle Doud wrote jokes for television shows including Johnny Carson, Jack Paar, and Jonathan Winters in the early 1960s. His debut comedy album was "Sounds Funny", a look at sound effects. He is mostly known for a series of successful comedy albums spoofing the political class. The first of these was "The First Family", a 1962 album that poked fun at President John F. Kennedy and family. Others continued with "Lyndon Johnson's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Spiro T. Agnew Is a Riot", and ending with "Ronald Reagan Slept Here", which spoofed the Ronald Reagan era in 1987. Doud won the 1962 Grammy Award for Album of the Year (Other than Classical) for the album, The First Family. Doud wrote many articles for Mad Magazine (EC, 1952 series), from approximately 1961 to 1986. Under the pen name of Earle Dow, Doud wrote pulp magazine novels during the 1930s and 1940s.