Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Butt Trumpet has an obsession with bodily functions that rivals even the Harvard Lampoon. Most notably, the title track describes someone spending a very long time waiting to get hold of a "Primitive Enema." Another song details some poor soul's yeast problems...
...this mysterious mentor?" you may ask plaintively. "Where does the aspiring scriptwriter turn?" There is, in fact, a man on the faculty who bridges the gap between high and low culture. We call this master "David Gewanter." If the Lampoon is the bootcamp of showbiz, an independent study with Dr. David Gewanter is the final testing ground...
Traditionally, people who are interested in writing professionally have gravitated to this Expos teacher. Former Lampoon president and Crimson editor John Abound III '95 gushes, "He's a little secret treasure each generation of Lampoon people hears about. People discovered him as a funny and intelligent person to write a script with. He's a man of many faces and more mysteries...
Gewanter credits the opportunities available to artsy Harvard grads to "a bunch of Harvard MBAs who think of themselves as artistic, work as producers at Fox, and hire friends..." He also acknowledges the Lampoon as a critical breeding ground a certain flavor of "masturbatory teenage boy comedy" marked by gags which derive from "too much panelling, bad weather, ex-debate champs, and small rooms." (He said it!) For Gewanter, the Lampoon is a veritable hotbed of little Adam Sandlers, or Benny Hills. Or something...
Across the table, the Harvard network started humming as a critic interjected, "I also wrote movie reviews for the Crimson. That's why I have to congratulate you on making it into comedy writing without going through the Lampoon...