Word: lampoonable
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Wide-eyed freshmen sat on the floor of the red-carpeted room while staff-writers perched on the windows and perpetually ordered everyone to squeeze in, a process akin to herding cats. All the while, members of the Lampoon stood around smoking in a room that was no more than 15 feet in diameter. Apparently putting up with a smoke-filled, claustrophobia-inducing room is a comp requirement. But while FlyBy could’ve used a smoke, none, it seemed, were in the offing...
...rest of the meeting proceeded with more smoking—take note compers, Mores seem to the Lampoon's cigarette of choice—and a litany of hyperbole about the checkered history of the magazine, its pranks, and comper contributions of their own pranks...
...senior black correspondent," who also talks about Obama in his stand-up act. Yet Wilmore's jabs are directed, as usual, mostly at the country's reaction to Obama ("that is a very comfortable level of black") rather than the President himself; the worst he can do is lampoon Obama's habit of giving long-winded answers to even simple questions...
Comping: 1. Harvard-speak for the sometimes-competitive training process for joining a student group. 2. Still the only way to get on the staff of The Crimson, the Advocate, or the Lampoon...
...Lampoon: 1. A semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. 2. Gang of emaciated white males who amuse themselves writing penis jokes and starting fires inside their castle. 3. Campus virgin support center...