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...Reiss is unambivalent about his respect for the Lampoon, but he says the hallowed institution had its fair share of internal strife...
...never seen real business as dirty and cutthroat as these meetings at the Lampoon. A lot of us who work together now weren’t friendly in school,” he says...
...After graduating in 1981, Jean and Reiss were hired immediately by the National Lampoon. Over the next few years, they wrote for a number of TV shows, including “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson," before joining the “Simpsons” team for the show’s debut...
...Lampoon] felt there was such disgrace in writing professionally and writing for money,” Reiss says...
...Although Jean and Reiss were among the first Lampoon alumni to write for television, today, one is hard pressed to find a sitcom without a Lampoon writer on staff...