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Members of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, said yesterday that they were planning a prank for today...
...time, often shaving years and suspiciously dated credits (Who's the Boss? Uh-oh) from their resumes. A thirtysomething friend of a friend of a friend of mine, a comedy writer, even had plastic surgery so he could pass as a twentysomething, presumably fresh off the Harvard Lampoon...
...hope the University will take a lesson from the council's detective work and come clean with everything else we know it's got--Jimmy Hoffa, the Lampoon's Ibis, the ark of the covenant and all the socks that disappear in the dryer. Cough it up, guys. Beth will thank...
...being said, it seems pointless to mention that the 163-page collection of totally fabricated celebrity dirt is perhaps a little too darkly funny for some of us. (Don't worry; it will be mentioned anyway.) Stewart's bizarre sense of humor--an almost schizophrenic mating of pseudo-highbrow Lampoon humor with seventh grade locker room jokes--brought him notoriety, though not much air time, on the short-lived "Jon Stewart Show" on MTV. In book form, however, his alternatingly grotesque and hysterical comedic style finds a happy home. These are not jokes that would work in a standup routine...
...know anything about it. It's not a Lampoon joke," said Poonster President Matthew J.T. Murray...