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...read the Lampoon's new issue. I will admit that I have never been a fan of Lampoon "humor," but I find their new issue to be more than I can stomach. I find it as offensive as the Pi Eta newsletter, if not more...
...membership in fraternities from 230,000 in 1980 to more than 400,000. Sororities, which record no countrywide membership total, have added 131 chapters in the past three years. At the same time, the Greek societies are working hard to overcome the image projected by the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House, which portrayed ham-handed initiation rites, sex groupies and boozy car crunching as standard behavior at the frats...
First he wanted to pave Harvard Yard with asphalt. At other times throughout his 34-year political career, City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci has proposed turning the Lampoon into a public latrine...
...first network program to cut off a slice of the energy, irreverence and scapegrace spirit of rock culture. It was also the first major forum for the comedy underground that had begun to form in the late '60s. This was humor influenced by Mad magazine and the National Lampoon, Ernie Kovacs and Monty Python, William S. Burroughs and Johnny B. Goode. Under the shrewd editorial tutelage of Producer Lorne Michaels, this over-the-top farce, gussied up a bit for home consumption, became the house style at Saturday Night Live. With a bow to Hunter Thompson, Aykroyd called it "Gonzo...
...Yorker has long been legally dead of inanition. Fans of Garrison Keillor and Veronica Geng, two of the magazine's steadiest contributors of whimsy, will disagree. But the most hilarious refutations of this charge have come from Author Ian Frazier, 35, an alumnus of the Harvard Lampoon and a New Yorker staff writer whose stories began bouncing off the wall and into the magazine some ten years ago. These appearances have, to be sure, been infrequent and highly irregular. Dating Your Mom collects a decade's worth of funny business: 25 short pieces, all but four of which originally appeared...