Nonsense was big business for Larry Sloan, who co-founded a Los Angeles publishing company in the 1960s to print books that were blueprints for silliness. The series of word-game books, “Mad Libs,” ...

“There’s a very small number of people on this planet who have this very specific job.” That’s how Mad Libs editor Laura Marchesani describes her work, and the exact thought that made me curious about ...

Do you remember playing Mad Libs as a kid? As the zany word game turns 50, TODAY has the story about how the game came to be. Plus, author Leonard Stern also wrote an exclusive Mad Lib about the TODAY ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The series had a fittingly serendipitous start. Leonard Stern, who has created and produced nearly two dozen TV series, was writing an ...

Leonard Stern, an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director whose career in television spanned “The Honeymooners,” “Get Smart” and “McMillan & Wife” and whose additional career in publishing ...

My earliest memories of Mad Libs date to junior high, when Marcy Merti and I would explode into giggle fits over inappropriately placed nostrils, double-knit pilgrims and one particularly frightening ...

Books of Mad Libs were my favorite thing to do in the car as a kid. Asking people for nouns and verbs to make up nonsensical stories that always ended up being hilarious was a fun time waster. Doing a ...