Word: lampooning
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...only for this reason and this reason only, Democrats should take care not to dismiss, ignore, or lampoon speeches about morals. Although the FRC may not represent the set of traditional values the majority of Americans wish the government to promote, it does not bode well for Democrats to dismiss their points of view as extremist. This only serves to promote the image of the party platform as a mere checklist of economic reforms—an image that has lost us more than one election in the past...
...creators of Zombieland - writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and director Ruben Fleischer, all of whom have worked for MTV - know this. They start with a premise that sounds like a horror-comedy remake of National Lampoon's Vacation. In a world where a pandemic has fatally infected virtually everyone, an improvised family of four drives cross-country to find refuge in a reputedly zombie-free California amusement park. Then the filmmakers bend this into a coming-of-age love-story road-movie quest epic. With many sharp laughs. And characters rich enough to occupy any movie that doesn...
...Fujita said. “He had sort of a charm to him and a glint in his eye. I’m not surprised he did so well for himself.” During his time at Harvard, Hubbard wrote for the Harvard Crimson and comped the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. He joins other prominent Harvard and Lampoon alumni, including Conan O’Brien ’85 and Simon Rich ’07, who were each nominated for awards at this year?...
...During his time at the Lampoon Conan O’Brien told Burt Ward, the man known for his role as Robin in Batman, that he represented a security firm retained to protect his Robin costume during Ward's visit to Harvard. By masquerading as a security firm O’Brien stole the costume, allegedly one of Ward's few sources of income, and took it back to the castle where members of the Lampoon repeatedly tried it on until the police forced them to return it. But at 6’5” O’Brien...
...From a comper, “After my girlfriend cheated on me, I replaced her conditioner with Nair.” The result? “Nice and smooth for the next guy,” said a Lampoon staffer...