Word: lampooning
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...elbow and said, ‘I foresee us becoming great friends!’” Stefanik remembers. “I was like, ‘You psycho!’” In the first semester of her freshman year, Muharrar started comping the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The next semester, she was admitted. “I’m prone to write about 19th century ladies,” Muharrar said, “etiquette and all that...
...looks like you’re in France,” White said, referring to the aesthetic beauty of the surrounding architecture—Adams House, Hurst Gallery, the Lampoon building...
...show’s first producers, George A. Meyer ’78, credits the Lampoon with fostering his love of comedy. “At the Lampoon, people take humor very seriously. There was nothing more important on earth than laughing and making other people laugh,” Meyer said in a 2004 New Yorker article. And although no members of the Lampoon would confirm, deny, or supply information, at least 22 “Simpsons” writers graduated from Harvard. For one season, 10 out of 12 “Simpsons” writers were former...
Successful writers are quick to deny that writing for the Lampoon guarantees a job; the path to the upper echelons of comedy writing is still rocky. “No one would hire a bad writer from Harvard over a talented one from somewhere else,” Michael L. Reiss ’81, former executive producer of “The Simpsons,” told The Crimson...
...Because I love being invited to the professors’ night at the Lampoon, dancing on the table tops...