"They came, they outraged, they moved on, but they left more DNA behind than O. J. Simpson. Spy’s influence is everywhere today, from Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” to — Time, even. If there’s a bit of chest-thumping and backslapping in this dandy 20th anniversary volume — Carter and Andersen are referred to variously as the “Lennon and McCartney of publishing, the Nichols and May, the Woodward and Bernstein” and for good measure, “Mick and Keith”; O.K., O.K., we get it, you were good, you were gods — one inclines to forgive, because they really were that good."
Christopher Buckley reviews Spy: The Funny Years in The New York Times.
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