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TIL comedy writers Leonard Stern and Roger Price had an idea for a word game but didn't know what to call it. One day they overheard an actor saying he wanted to "Ad-Lib" an interview in which his agent called him "mad" for doing it. Stern and Price used that chat to call their creation Mad Libs.

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