Word: lampooner
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...inevitable rejections that Harvard presents can—does—wreak havoc on them. First comes first-year orientation programs, then freshman seminars, maybe honors-only concentrations, definitely seminars and conference courses. Worse are the extracurriculars: “comping” the Advocate, the Crimson, or the Lampoon; the arduous Let’s Go applications and interviews; some PBHA programs and other committees (even, ironically, Room 13); the social organizations—rejection is the definitive Harvard experience...
...mother and an Afrikaans father, Uys, 56, began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin Uys. His Evita not only escaped the censors - she soon had the nation eating out of her well-manicured hand. After the end of apartheid, Uys found plenty to satirize in the new "designer democracy...
...most extreme and hysterical inclusions in "Dig" are short "letters" Southern concocted for the "National Lampoon" and the private amusement of his friends. Affecting an offhanded style, Southern gleefully raises the bar for bad-taste humor in these pieces, delivering bizarre gross-outs and politically incorrect (understatement) proclamations while tweaking various bastions of civilized behavior. Although the letters read like spontaneous creations, lacking the craft and precision of Southern's best work, their surprisingly crude contents do satisfy his cardinal rule for successful writing: namely, that it possesses the "capacity to astonish...
...likely he will migrate toward other destinations. For his sake, this would be a good idea. Sources indicate that the poor fools on Bow Street have already hired cronies to traverse the sea and capture the errant bird, so that he can be resoldered atop the Lampoon Castle. Adding insult to injury, he would be forced to share his old prison with a shoddily constructed, fake plastic imposter...
...When I got on the Lampoon in 1972, it was in no sense a pre-professional hatchery; when I left in 1976, the National Lampoon was a huge success, Saturday Night Live had been on the air for a year, and the Lampoon hegemony over American television comedy had begun...