Word: lampooning
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...Tonics performed at the party for Chapman, which members of the Hasty Pudding, the Harvard Lampoon and the Gilbert and Sullivan players attended...
...minor flaws, the parody rates as a definite success. And as such, it begs the question of why it is so much better than its deservedly ignored counterpart, The Harvard Lampoon itself. One thoroughly unresearched and unsubstantiated theory may help explain the difference...
...Harvard Lampoon knows it. The 'Poon has dissected People, pared it down to its vinyl soul and looked inside. The Lampoon did not look for a heart of darkness and did not find one; what appears instead is a catalogue of foibles, not sins, in a nation of genial losers. All is well, if not exactly perfect, in the land of Brooke and Bo. Incidentally, the whole thing is pretty funny...
...never captures the unique flavor of People's celebrity profiles; the parody doesn't look at the amusing laundry list--current success, difficult childhood, early hard-times, current sexual partners--that makes People's cover stories so wonderfully predictable. Bad taste, usually of the sexist variety and a Lampoon trademark, seems pleasantly absent--all the more remarkable because of an apparently all-male production staff. But perhaps I (also all-male) merely missed the offensive parts...
...LAMPOON obviously knew People prose intimately, for the parody's command of its style is masterful. The writing appears to require no thought either to read or write; it glides along effortlessly, often hilarious in its sprightliness. On a six-year-old genius: "Graduating from Harvard at five, the swaddling-swathed summa soon had six degrees safely tucked away under his rompers." In a review of a new Beethoven performance: "Here is another album demonstrating that Beethoven is anything but ready to roll over...