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Interviews

Talking to National Lampoon Co-Founder Henry Beard About Humor Writing, the Lampoon and More

by | November 28th, 2012

Henry Beard, one of the co-founders of The National Lampoon, is a prolific man. Over the course of forty years, Beard has written more than 35 humor books, including Zen for Cats, The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook (co-written with Christopher Cerf), and Latin for All Occasions. What’s especially interesting is that Beard remains one of the few comedy writers to only devote themselves entirely to print, with little or no interest in writing for other mediums, be it television or films.

Beard’s first parody book, Bored of the Rings, was published in 1969, when Beard (and co-writer Doug Kenney) had just graduated Harvard. The book remains [...]

COLLEGE COMEDY WEEK

When They Were In College

by | August 29th, 2012

Before many of our most beloved comedy stars made it big, they had the same four-year college experience as millions of young Americans. They sat nervously through the same orientation sessions, suffered through the same macroeconomics gen-ed classes, and shelled out $200 for the same anthropology textbook they were never going to use. But while we were arranging our class schedule so we could sleep in until noon every day, or briefly pretending to care about politics, our soon-to-be comedy idols were quietly positioning themselves to take over the industry, honing their chops in campus sketch groups, humor newspapers, and open mic nights. Below, we listed some comedians whose [...]

History

Read a Harvard Lampoon Story Written by Conan O'Brien in 1985

by | September 21st, 2011

Here's an oldie but a goodie: The Genius of Podd, a story penned for the Harvard Lampoon by one Conan O'Brien in 1985. It's about an ad writer who wears pants made out of fried dough. Yep.

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