Can someone concisely explain Parade magazine to me?

I'm not American, and I always thought Parade was some small magazine of some sort that made All-America picks. Now I see talk of "73 million readers" and "highest-circulation magazine in America" and such, and I'm flabbergasted. What IS it? What does it look like? Who reads it?

Etc. Thanks!

 

"Parade" provides weekly updates to the "American Handbook," which is a secret document for Americans only, so that's why you haven't heard of it.

 

svb: It's a free insert in a lot of the newspapers. It looks like an ad insert (that same type of paper, no staples, just folded pages together) and it has stuff like Reader's Digest would have. Random stories, some helpful recipes, Marilyn vos Savant (a genius who takes questions from readers and solves them) and the first page which is always some stupid "Hey, what's Hal Holbrook up to nowadays?" stuff.

 

73 million readers? maybe 73 million people who throw it away when it comes as an insert in the sunday paper.

 

And longtime Parade celeb chronicler James Brady just died, which figures to knock that circulation down a few million

 

It also has some sweet cartoons, such as Howard Huge.

 

WHAT?? Crap. I always loved how his "profiles" had a lot more to do with him than they did the subject.

Oh, and I loved his eyebrows.

 

I once rented a movie called "Howard Huge." It wasn't exactly what I thought it was going to be.

 

That guy deserves his own RIP thread.

 

I swear, for a long time I wondered why the guy in Parade Magazine was lobbying so hard for handgun laws.

 

I actually thought it was the same guy for a while. I'm dead serious. I'm sort of a moron.

 

Leroy the journalist comes home from a hard day at work.