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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 1000 students filled Sanders Theater as Lampoon court jesters in pink tights and magenta-striped pants presented the three-foot "Elmer Award" to comedian Jay Leno last night...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Leno Receives Lampy Prize | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...Elmer Award is given in honor of Elmer Green, the former caretaker and friend of the Lampoon who died in 1977. Previous recipients in the prize's 10-year history have included Bill Cosby, John Candy and Pee Wee Herman...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Leno Receives Lampy Prize | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...jesters in medieval attire danced onto the stage with the envelope and the mammoth trophy. And Fernandez announced--to no one's surprise--that Jay Leno had won this year's Elmer Award. The Lampoon announced the decision several weeks...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Leno Receives Lampy Prize | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

Leno gracefully accepted the award, saying, "I wish I had a Cadillac to put this...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Leno Receives Lampy Prize | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...Winning the Outstanding Diver award meant much more to me than taking first on the 3-meter board," Greene said. "That dive was such a fluke thing that I can't worry about it. It will never happen again...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Nothing More Than a Fluke Dive | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

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