Word: lampooning
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...impossible to deny that the Lampoon has been up to some damn funny stuff lately. I'm probably breaking any number of Crimson internal editorial commandments when I say so, but if its recent activity means anything, the semisecret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine seems intent on moving away from its "final-club-lite" reputation and toward a more relevant role on campus...
...last few years, the Lampoon seems to have been living off its longstanding reputation as the most vital source of humor at Harvard, basking cockily in the recent success of alumni Conan C. O'Brien '85 and a number of writers for "The Simpsons." Whole semesters have gone by with scarcely a word from the Castle, and some of the Lampoon's magazines have been so dull as to make one wonder if they weren't Demon-orchestrated counterfeits, produced to sully the organization's name...
Cohen, dressed in a jacket but no tie, initially told his roommates that he was turned away for being inappropriately dressed for the occasion. "This is really funny. I want to comp the Lampoon now," Cohen said...
Gage said that he held no ill feelings toward the Lampoon nor the pudding, adding that he would still consider joining the Pudding, if asked...
...five hundred freshmen that got their feelings hurt. [Officers of the Hasty Pudding Club] are desperately sorry that the Lampoon would manipulate our name to hurt freshmen," Friedland said...