Word: lampooning
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...time Emmy Award winning producer Bud Yorkin received the Harvard Lampoon's first Golden Jester Award last night in a Science Center ceremony...
Yorkin accepted the award "for significant contributions to comedy over the last 25 years" and presented the Lampoon with a series of clips from his films and T.V. programs. After the presentation the small Science Center audience viewed one of Yorkin's feature movies, "Start the Revolution Without...
...buster, and some have two; cleverness sparkles in the opening "trio" and the talk show sketch, among others. Besides, the laughs are very evenly spaced out around the vast Russian steppes of tedium. And if you don't feel like laughing, there'll always be a well-orchestrated Lampoon claque there to help you along. It's amazing the way these people have learned to threw their voices, to fill a room with specious laughter--and all in the name of humor...
There is something inherently suspect about institutionalizing something as spontaneous as humor, and something even obscene in making it a sullen competition for yuks, as the Lampoon has done. The resultant brand of humor, inevitably perhaps, irritates--no, it offends. And by this I don't mean to carp on racism and sexism, although I think these elements are well in evidence in On the Lam. Rather, I mean the sort of comedy that points down, from an affected stance of intellectual or cultural superiority, lacking any sort of humanism or fellow feeling, without any hint that the Lampoon itself...
...laugh loud enough, my date, my friends, and maybe even the exalted savants of the Lampoon will know that I too know the circumference of the sun...I too have read King Lear...