Word: lampooner
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...vast majority of zines, however, settle for the slightly irreverent. Some have literary aspirations, others revel in white-trash culture; some have , a weirdly tight focus, others purposefully ramble. Diseased Pariah News uses gallows humor to lampoon the daily trauma of living with AIDS; Processed World ridicules the consumer culture of Popeye's chicken shacks and Subway sandwich shops; the I Hate Brenda Newsletter lambastes former Beverly Hills, 90210 star Shannen Doherty for everything from her pancake-white makeup to her recital of the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican Convention. Dirt Rag is a service zine for dirt...
...across David Sedaris' name in a collection of "alternative new queer writing" edited by novelist Dennis Cooper (he of the Jeffrey Daumer-like heroes and highly-theorized fascination with rimming). Sedaris' entry in this in-your-face collection was called "Glenn's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2," a lampoon of self-righteous activism and P.C. paranoia. (Glenn indulges in frequent digressions about cruel ex-boyfriends and screams intolerance when a cornerstore cashier resists an inelegant, intrusive seduction). It was funny, a little off-color but not quite as deliberately smellyas some of the other offerings...
...Harvard Lampoon is hilarious. No, really...
...castle of the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-secret Bow St. social organization that rarely publishes a so-called humor magazine--seems to be a focal point of the latest renovations...
...with Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness). "Since then," Permut says, "I've been brought just about every TV show imaginable. Last week somebody came into my office pitching the Baldwin brothers as My Three Sons." Permut helped set up The Beverly Hillbillies, and is now preparing Green Acres, National Lampoon's Love Boat and Gilligan's Island -- films with simple aims and B-list directors. "I'm not going to be talking with Marty Scorsese about Love Boat," Permut says...