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...legendary former Mayor of Cambridge, Alfred E. Vellucci, tried to rectify this problem years ago when he planted the Liberty Elm tree in front of the Harvard Lampoon...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: The Fall (and Foliage) of Cambridge | 9/29/1993 | See Source »

...main disappointment of Late Night with Conan O'Brien is that it fits so comfortably into the Letterman-fashioned late-night mold. Another tall, Waspy male with a facetious, wise-guy attitude, drawing writers from the same pool of ex-Harvard Lampoon staff members to help deliver a nightly mix of topical jokes and goofy comedy bits. In its search for someone to take over the time period where Letterman reinvented the talk show, NBC might have tried something truly different: a show with real interviews, for instance (a Larry King for the twentysomething generation), or maybe even (radical thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. O'Brien's Neighborhood | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

From the Harvard Lampoon castle to NBC's Studio 6A, Conan O'Brien '85 hit the late night television scene Monday night with topical humor, self-effacing charm, and a leg-wrestling match...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: O'Brien Debuts as NBC Late Night Host | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

This esprit de cool comes from the host: Harvard Lampoon ex-president, writer-producer for television's best show (The Simpsons), scion of a tony Boston family (he could do my-father-the-doctor, my-mother-the-lawyer jokes, but won't). And, now, the star of Late Night after David Letterman. "I'd be an arrogant fool if I didn't get nervous," O'Brien says. "What calms me, I guess, is that there are a million things I can't do but I have a core belief in myself that this is something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late Night With Just About Everybody | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...Clinton plays a mobster in National Lampoon's Last Resort, out next spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogergram Our Periodic Update on the First Half Brother | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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