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The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor publication founded in 1876 by seven undergraduates at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvard_Lampoon
The Lampoon is housed a few blocks from Harvard Square in a mock-Flemish castle, the Harvard Lampoon Building. It has been ranked by the magazine Complex as the fifth most phallic building in the world.[6]
The Harvard Lampoon was first published in 1876 by seven founders including
- Ralph Wormeley Curtis,
- Edward Sandford Martin,
- Edmund March Wheelwright, and
- Arthur Murray Sherwood[7] (father of Robert E. Sherwood).[8] The first issue of the Lampoon was a single copy, nailed to a tree in Harvard Yard.
Lampoon alumni include such comedians as
- Conan O'Brien,
- Andy Borowitz,
- B. J. Novak,
- Greg Daniels,
- Michael Schur,
- Christopher Cerf (Sesame Street), and
- Colin Jost.
- Etan Cohen wrote for Beavis and Butt-Head as an undergraduate member.
- In 1986 former editor Kurt Andersen co-founded the satirical magazine Spy, which employed Lampoon writers
- Paul Simms and
- Eric Kaplan, and published the work of
- Lampoon alumni Patricia Marx,
- Lawrence O'Donnell,
- Suchetas Bokil, and
- Mark O'Donnell.
- The Lampoon has also graduated many noted authors such as George Plimpton,
- George Santayana,
- John Updike, and
- William Gaddis.
- Actor Fred Gwynne was a cartoonist and president of the Lampoon.
- Famous Boston lawyer Bradley Palmer acted as treasurer for the Lampoon.