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Exhibit number three: The Harvard Lampoon. Harvard's comedy mafia currently write for The Simpsons and Conan C. O'Brien '85; as undergraduates, they wrote for the Lampoon; ergo, the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine is funny. If only this syllogism were true. The Lampoon's reputation for comedy, much like Saturday Night Live's, rests on the belief that it once was very funny; whether it was ever all that funny, however, is up for debate. With a few notable exceptions, formulaic gags and random profanity don't make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Imagining the Past | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...Publications range from liberal (Perspective) to conservative (the Salient) and useful (the Let's Go travel guide series) to pointless (the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Campus Connoisseurs: The Inside Scoop to Life at Harvard | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Publications range from liberal (Perspective) to conservative (the Salient) and useful (the Let's Go travel guide series) to pointless (the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Go to Harvard: A Frank Look at the Yard | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Since Bill and Hillary swept into the White House six years ago, American Greetings has proudly trumpeted the First Family's annual holiday card as its greatest prize. Of late, though, some artists at the Cleveland-based company have been itching to lampoon their most famous customers, but worry about offending retailers. Sighs one illustrator: "We won't be doing any cigar gags, that's for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roses Are Red, Card Sellers Blue | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...walked down Mt. Auburn Street this afternoon, and high above me a stereo was thumping from the window of a final club; a group of premeds were sitting in a courtyard studying for their MCATs, while a pair a rowers walked toward the boat house for an afternoon practice. Lampoon to the left of me, Hillel to the right: it's rich panorama of life in a cheesy, Chaucerian sort...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: What I Saw at the Senior Bar | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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