| 0 | Mad Stays Up for Late Night | cover | 1 | pencils: Tom Richmond; inks: Tom Richmond; colors: Tom Richmond | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 1 | - | table of contents | 2 | pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker | Bill Cosby, Fred Flintstone, Cookie Monster, Alfred E. Neuman |
| 2 | A Mad Look at Late Night TV | comic story | 3 | script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés; colors: Carrie Strachan | |
| 3 | The 38 Worst Things About Late Night TV! | comic story | 5 | script: Desmond Devlin, Scott Maiko, Jeff Kruse; pencils: Hermann Mejía, Ward Sutton; inks: Hermann Mejía, Ward Sutton | David Letterman, Barack Obama |
| 4 | - | comic story | 2 | script: Peter Kuper; pencils: Peter Kuper; inks: Peter Kuper; colors: Peter Kuper; letters: Peter Kuper | |
| 5 | One Fine Day at a Television Station | comic story | 1 | script: Charlie Kadau; pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin | |
| 6 | Tricks of the Trade in Local TV News | comic story | 2 | script: Tom Koch; pencils: George Woodbridge; inks: George Woodbridge | |
| 7 | Where Else but on TV...? | comic story | 4 | script: Tom Koch; pencils: Jack Davis; inks: Jack Davis | Rock Hudson [as Stewart McMillan]; Ron Howard [as Richie Cunningham]; Jean Stapleton [as Edith Bunker]; Telly Savalas [as Theo Kojak]; William Conrad [as Frank Cannon]; Buddy Ebsen [as Barnaby Jones] |
| 8 | TV Warnings We Really Need | comic story | 2 | script: J. Prete; pencils: Paul Coker; inks: Paul Coker | |
| 9 | Mad Deconstructs TV Talk Shows This Month: The Colbert Report | comic story | 3 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Sam Viviano; inks: Sam Viviano | Stephen Colbert; Jon Stewart; Jimmy Neutron (cameo); Marco Crandall |
| 10 | A CBS-TV Summer Memo to the Smothered Brothers | cartoon | 1 | script: Ronnie Nathan; pencils: Jack Rickard; inks: Jack Rickard | The Smothers Brothers [Tom Smothers; Dick Smothers] |
| 11 | A Eulogy for Colbert's Late Show | comic story | 2 | script: Paula Sevenbergen; pencils: Herman Mejia; inks: Herman Mejia; colors: Herman Mejia | |
| 12 | Mad Deconstructs TV Talk Shows This Month: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | comic story | 4 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Drew Friedman; inks: Drew Friedman; colors: Drew Friedman | |
| 13 | My Pill-Ow! | photo story | 1 | script: Dick DeBartolo; pencils: Mike Loew; inks: Mike Loew; colors: Mike Loew | |
| 14 | Nutwork | comic story | 6 | script: Stan Hart; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker | Faye Dunaway [as Diana]; William Holden [as Max]; Peter Finch [as Harrowed Bile]; Robert Duvall [as Hatchet]; The Assassination Squad [Harry Reasoner; Walter Cronkite; John Chancellor; Barbara Walters] |
| 15 | Enjoy-the-View Television | illustration | 1 | pencils: Kelly Freas; inks: Kelly Freas; colors: Kelly Freas | |
| 16 | Boob Tube Mash-Ups We Can't Wait to See | comic story | 2 | script: Brockton McKinney; pencils: Kerry Callen; inks: Kerry Callen | |
| 17 | Mad's Exclusive Backstage Tour of the Family Guy | comic story | 3 | script: Dave Richards; pencils: Tom Richmond; inks: Tom Richmond; colors: Tom Richmond | |
| 18 | The Lighter Side of the Television Set | comic story | 4 | script: Dave Berg; pencils: Dave Berg; inks: Dave Berg; colors: Raven Juergensen | |
| 19 | Guest Types You'll See On Late Night TV | comic story | 2 | script: Ivan Ehlers; pencils: Ivan Ehlers; inks: Ivan Ehlers; colors: Ivan Ehlers | |
| 20 | - | comic story | 1 | script: Antonio Prohías; pencils: Antonio Prohías; inks: Antonio Prohías; colors: Carrie Strachan | The Black Spy, The White Spy |
| 21 | Audition Tapes of Talk Show Hosts Who Never Made It | comic story | 3 | script: Dan Birtcher; pencils: Sam Viviano; inks: Sam Viviano | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 22 | How Different Networks Would Cover the Story of a Giant Meteor Heading Toward Earth | comic story | 1 | pencils: Sam Sisco; inks: Sam Sisco; colors: Sam Sisco | |
| 23 | What Is Perhaps the Greatest Threat to Late Night Shows' Long-Term Survival? | activity | 1 | script: Johnny Sampson; pencils: Johnny Sampson; inks: Johnny Sampson; colors: Johnny Sampson | |
| 24 | The Television Studio | cartoon | 1 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Al Jaffee; inks: Al Jaffee; colors: Al Jaffee | |