Word: lampooning
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...misunderstands the Lampoon if he thinks of it as a publication. Aside from being a tax-free museum which opens its doors once a year to maintain this status (but never announces that one date), it is primarily a club. Its members pay dues, which are munched away at the extravagant banquets served around a long table in the high-arched chandelier-strung main hall...
...that the Lampoon isn't beneficent. Since they came into the coin in '66, every issue has been free to undergraduates. And for years they've been supporting their over-seventy janitor, Elmer Green (who's done nothing but impersonate dignitaries on magazine covers), in their cellar. And as soon as the Lampoon can afford it, they plan to move him to a nicer apartment in Somerville . . . so they can "build a darkroom down there...
There's been a lot of talk about the Lampoon doing a movie one of these days, but that is probably an effort more meticulous than they're capable of. They have come out with a second LP, which was partly inspired by the Lampoon's house rock band, the Central Park Zoo, whose members include Poonies Mark Stumpf and Peter Gabel, and whose single 45 record can be played on the juke-box in nearby Tommy's Lunch. Along with Stumpf, the prime movers behind the new record were Jonathan Cerf, who was once Ibis, and former Hasty Pudding...
...they parody and then if they only make slight changes, which are meaningful rather than merely absurd. Following this logic, almost all parodies of, say, fifties rock'n'roll are just stupid. Bad singing and bad sound simply doesn't parody something that's musically better. The Lampoon's earlier record, "The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium," was a drag; the Mothers of Invention records are great. "The Surprising Sheep and Other Mind Excursions" is very good...
...best songs are "Lazy Summer" and "One Born Every Minute" (two very groovy tunes with lots of chimes, kazoos, concertinas, and other new sounds), "God" (an old Lampoon song about who is responsible for poverty, earthquakes, and the striking of such instruments of Fate as lightning), "The Surprising Sheep" (the title song alluding to the old Lampoon joke: "See the merino standing there with his long shaggy hair"), and "Welcome to the Club" (a song so much like the Lovin' Spoonful that someone ought to do something about...