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...first parody, Ubu Roi, although energetic and hummable, is something of an ambiguous mess. It is either a parody of Alfred Jarry, which is redundant, or a parody of Shakespeare, which Jarry did better. Jarry's Ubu Roi, a scatological lampoon of Macbeth, caused riots in 1893 Paris. At best, Durang's version, featuring a padded Thomas Derrah murdering every one in sight and a cannabalistic bouillabaise, can only imitate Jarry's effects; at worst it is only dull. But as Mrs. Sorken says, "If you don't like it, let your mind wander...
More than 600 people were kept in stitches Saturday night during the Harvard Lampoon's Comedy Night, a three-hour charity event to benefit Phillips Brooks House...
Secure in the belief that this letter contained no threat to the Lampoon's time-honored tradition of having group sex in large vats of fettucini, I opened...
...retired to the smoking lounge to select from one of the 267 brands of tobacco that I bought with the $100,000 that I squandered from the Lampoon (don't print this, boys...
While I had him on the phone, I asked Josh about his idea for the coup. "Well, it goes like this. I write to Cohen and ask him about producing a joint issue between the Lampoon and the Chaparral. He agrees and we do all the production out here. The issue is a horrible failure, and we at the Chaparral make off with $300,000 of Lampoon money, all because of Cohen's blunder. He will have lost three times as much as you and you'll be sure to be president...