lampoon

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“You don’t have to be on the Harvard Lampoon or have grown up in Manhattan. That was a very important lesson for me. I’d never met a comedy writer out of D.C.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

He soon moved to Paris and began hanging out with George Plimpton, a fellow alum of The Harvard Lampoon.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022

Sean Kelly, a wry master of literary and musical parodies who helped infuse National Lampoon with the sharp-edged and often crude humor it became known for, died on July 11 in Manhattan.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

There’s a rich history of satirical publications like Mad magazine and National Lampoon — places where the news of the day collides with the potential for laughter that can reduce its heaviness.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

While at Princeton College he was one of the editors of the Nassau Literary Magazine, and one of the founders and first editor of the Princeton Tiger, an illustrated weekly, modeled on the Harvard Lampoon.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese