Word: lampooner
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...annual undergraduate humor magazine is slated to appear on campus next year, but the publication's founders said yesterday it will not compete with the Lampoon...
Stone said that Pickwick would not compete with the Lampoon. "We encourage members of any organization to submit pieces," he said...
...ASPCA. The morbid obsession with news is caricatured in the (very funny) story of a family--"marooned" on the island where they have always lived--that is killed when as Associated Press helicopter crashes from on high, the even more morbid obsession with games ridiculed in a lampoon of a future sport-mad-society where 197,000 would jam the Yale Bowl to see Harvard (and the races from Belmont) on large screen t.v. Yes, he hits some easy targets, but easy targets are often the largest ones, and hence worth hitting. For the most part, the short sketches...
...folks who gravitate toward the Lampoon, however, are obsessive about everything. They are the ultimate transparent eyeballs, indiscriminately bringing in everything they can see, anything that will increase their store of information. And the most obvious target for obsessive youngsters is the part of society that produces stimulation constantly--in short, television. So these guys start to learn everything about television, and, as kids, they gravitate toward the tube's broad horizon of situation comedies. My guess is that you could walk into the Lampoon castle tomorrow, ask the inhabitants to sing the theme song from That Girl...
...familiar ground; they have found a subject wedded to their talents. The glee, combined with the compulsive energy, with which they pursued their task appears throughout the parody in pleasing excess. It may be hard to imagine the Poonies as houseguests, but with the People parody, the Harvard Lampoon has found a home...