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Wherever there's misfortune, the Lampoon--the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine--is there to guffaw at the misery...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon College Guide Hits Shelves, Sells Big | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...while high school seniors across the country bite their nails, pull out their hair and have nervous breakdowns over getting into college, the funnymen (and woman or two) have published The Harvard Lampoon's Guide to College Admissions, released Sept...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon College Guide Hits Shelves, Sells Big | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

Kristin's writing skills, honed on the Harvard Lampoon, have come in handy for her father. When he appeared on the Tonight Show last February, she coached him on how to answer Jay Leno's inevitable question about the regular pounding the Vice President gets from late-night comedians. "Actually, we have kind of a family ritual," he deadpanned. "We just sit around the dinner table every night around 11:30 and make jokes about you." But Kristin--a favorite with the campaign staff--prefers to stay in the background, running the photocopy machine with the volunteers as her older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: A Comic In The Family | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...wildly inventive Modern Humorist www.modernhumorist.com) founded by Harvard Lampoon alums John Aboud and Michael Colton, has a broader satiric scope, which has led some to call it the National Lampoon of the Web. But its richest targets have been pop culture and the media. When US Weekly retracted a claim that Tom Cruise had fallen out with the Church of Scientology, MH fired off "Corrections the Scientologists Made Us Run," including "Tom Cruise does not stand on a phone book whenever he and Nicole Kidman are photographed together. Instead she stands in a hole." It greeted Oprah Winfrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irony Is Dead. Long Live Irony (On The Web) | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...Softball: Traditional spring diversion of Harvard student groups. The Crimson dominated on the diamond last spring, and is riding a 113-year winning streak over the Lampoon...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvardisms: Harvard for Beginners | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

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