Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the student body like a cancer. Anti-war rage was a powerful leveler, cutting across all Harvard class lines. As one eyewitness wrote, the University Hall occupants included "some people from the Loeb, a couple of guys from the Fly Club, at least one from the Lampoon and one in a tuxedo who just came from a party and was drunk...
From the inception of the show seven years ago, The Simpsons had a core of writers that graduated from Harvard and were editors at the Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow St. social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine...
...last two seasons, the Simpsons has been run by Oakley and his childhood friend and writing partner Josh Weinstein, a Stanford graduate who is an honorary member of the Harvard Lampoon because of the summers he spent with Oakley in Cambridge working on the Lampoon's occasional parodies of better known publications...
...basically the entire staff of the USA Today parody," Oakley says, referring to a 1986 Lampoon publication...
...idea that television writing is a viable profession and that's what people are in college to learn was taking off right when I was graduating," Cohen says. "No one thought of [the Lampoon] as the golden road to Hollywood employment or anything...