The Harvard Lampoon

Author : Harvard Lampoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781501109898

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The Best of the Harvard Lampoon by Harvard Lampoon Pdf

A collection of the best of The Harvard Lampoon—the spawning ground for Hollywood’s elite comedy writers and New Yorker humorists—revealing the hidden gems from their 140-year history. Since its inception in 1876, The Harvard Lampoon has become a farm system for Hollywood’s best and most revered comedy writers. Lampoon alumni can be found behind the scenes of sitcoms and late-night shows, including Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, The Office, 30 Rock, The Mindy Project, and many others. The Best of the Harvard Lampoon is the first anthology of The Lampoon’s extensive archives, featuring luminaries who have gone on to shape the comedy and literary landscape along with some of the best cartoons, illustrations, and satirical advertisements from over the years. Contributors include B.J. Novak, Henry Beard, Andy Borowitz, George Plimpton, Conan O’Brien, John Updike, Patricia Marx, and many others, with an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Simon Rich.

Author : The Harvard Lampoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781451668216

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The Hunger Pains by The Harvard Lampoon Pdf

The hilarious instant New York Times bestseller, The Hunger Pains is a loving parody of the dystopian YA novel and film, The Hunger Games. Winning means wealth, fame, and a life of therapy losing means death, but also fame! This is The Hunger Pains. When Kantkiss Neverclean replaces her sister as a contestant on the Hunger Games—the second-highest-rated reality TV show in Peaceland, behind Extreme Home Makeover—she has no idea what to expect. Having lived her entire life in the telemarketing district’s worst neighborhood, the Crack, Kantkiss feels unprepared to fight to the death while simultaneously winking and looking adorable for the cameras. But when her survival rests on choosing between the dreamy hunk from home, Carol Handsomestein, or the doughy klutz, Pita Malarkey, Kantkiss discovers that the toughest conflicts may not be found on the battlefield but in her own heart . . . which is unfortunately on a battlefield.

Author : The Harvard Lampoon
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780306873706

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Lame of Thrones by The Harvard Lampoon Pdf

From Harvard's legendary humor publication comes an outrageous, uproariously funny parody of Game of Thrones, in the tradition of their previous bestselling parody book classics Bored of the Rings, Nightlight, and The Hunger Pains. An affectionate but take-no-prisoners send-up of the massive literary and television franchise, Lame of Thrones offers fans a way of reentering the fictional world they have come to love and merrily explodes all of its conventions -- as well as their expectations of the characters -- to hilarious ends. It may even leave you more satisfied than the actual TV ending of Game of Thrones. In fact, if it doesn't the Lampoon has really dropped the ball. Lame of Thrones will take you to Westopolis, where several extremely attractive egomaniacs are vying to be ruler of the realm and sit on the Pointy Chair. Our hero Jon Dough was a likely bet, but his untimely murder at the hands of his own men of the Night's Crotch has made that seem less likely. Will Dragon Queen Dennys Grandslam escape from her Clothkhaki captors and return to conquer the world? Or will she just get left in the desert counting grains of sand for the rest of the book? And what about Jon Dough's siblings? Will they be mentioned? Probably? Almost definitely, yes? It would be weird if they weren't prominent characters in the book, you say? To find out, read the book you wish George R.R. Martin would write but never will. The Lampoon -- the place where such comedy writers and performers as Conan O'Brien, Colin Jost, B.J. Novak, Patricia Marx, Alan Yang, Andy Borowitz and many more all got their start -- is ready to serve parody notice to the most entertaining, infuriating, and inescapable cultural phenomenon of the past decade.

Author : Harvard Lampoon (Organization),Courtney Bowman,Cora Frasier,The Harvard Lampoon Inc. Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Humorous stories
ISBN : 0732291461

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Nightlight by Harvard Lampoon (Organization),Courtney Bowman,Cora Frasier,The Harvard Lampoon Inc. Staff Pdf

Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in this hilarious send-up of Twilight. After witnessing a number of strange events Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive?

Author : The Harvard Lampoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781476763927

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The Wobbit by The Harvard Lampoon Pdf

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling parody The Hunger Pains, this fresh take on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is a hilarious send-up of Middle-earth, publishing just in time for the major motion picture release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The sequel to the parody of the sequel to the prequel to The Lord of the Rings When Aaron Sorkinshield and his band of Little People embark on a totally feasible quest to reclaim the hoard of Academy Awards stolen from them by the lonely Puff the Magic Dragon, senile wizard Dumbledalf suggests an unlikely and completely unqualified accomplice: Billy Bagboy, an unassuming wobbit dwelling in terrorist-riddled Wobbottabad. Along the way, the company faces Internet trolls, moblins, one really big spider that must be at least an inch and a half wide, and worse. But as they journey from the wonders of Livinwell to the terrors of Jerkwood and beyond, Billy will find that there is more to him than anyone—Tolkien included—ever dreamed. Propelled to his destiny by a series of courageous adventures and indented paragraphs, Billy will set out on the greatest YOLO of all time . . . one that leads deep into the dark caverns hiding a mysterious man named Goldstein, who’s just trying to have a nice seder.

Author : Harvard Lampoon(TM) Harvard Lampoon Incorporated Staff
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446676160

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The Harvard Lampoon's Guide to College Admissions by Harvard Lampoon(TM) Harvard Lampoon Incorporated Staff Pdf

A humorous guide to the college application process profiles and ranks such schools as the Colorado School of Mining Technology, provides tips on SATs, and offers insight into coping with dorm life.

Author : Rick Meyerowitz
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781683357674

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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead by Rick Meyerowitz Pdf

Reprints and reminiscences from the magazine’s first decade: “Fun to flip through . . . Where would American humor be without the National Lampoon?”—The New Yorker From its first issue in April 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. This is the story of a band of young talents who “irrevocably rewrote the landscape of American humor” (Publishers Weekly). “A vivid picture of a tight-knit family of twentysomething humorists at the dawn of their careers.” —Newsweek "The other night I started laughing so hard I had to leave the room . . . And then I realized that I hadn’t laughed so hard in 35 years, since I was a teenager, reading National Lampoon.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you grew up with the Lampoon, this book is a trip down memory lane like no other; if not, it will demonstrate that the much maligned 70s could produce humor that has never been surpassed.” —Vanity Fair

Author : Henry Beard,Douglas C. Kenney
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Satire, American
ISBN : 0785727981

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Bored of the Rings by Henry Beard,Douglas C. Kenney Pdf

Author : Steven G. Crist,George Meyer
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000010717288

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The Harvard Lampoon Big Book of College Life by Steven G. Crist,George Meyer Pdf

Author : Harvard Lampoon (Organization)
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399516654

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A Harvard Education in a Book by Harvard Lampoon (Organization) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435071248579

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The Harvard Lampoon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Josh Karp
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556526022

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A Futile and Stupid Gesture by Josh Karp Pdf

The ultimate biography of "National Lampoon" and its cofounder Doug Kenney, this book offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters.

Author : The Harvard Lampoon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307476654

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Nightlight by The Harvard Lampoon Pdf

About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me. And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon’s hilarious send-up of Twilight. Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events–Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!–Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive? Complete with romance, danger, insufficient parental guardianship, creepy stalker-like behavior, and a vampire prom, Nightlight is the uproarious tale of a vampire-obsessed girl, looking for love in all the wrong places.

Author : Ellin Stein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393084375

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That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream by Ellin Stein Pdf

"Smart, knowing, and deeply reported, the definitive history of one of modern American humor’s wellsprings." —Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland, host of NPR’s Studio 360 Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists including Michael O’Donoghue and P. J. O’Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant voice of American comedy. Ranging from sophisticated political satire to broad raunchy jokes, the National Lampoon introduced iconoclasm to the mainstream, selling millions of copies to an audience both large and devoted. Its excursions into live shows, records, and radio helped shape the anarchic earthiness of John Belushi, the suave slapstick of Chevy Chase, and the deadpan wit of Bill Murray, and brought them together with other talents such as Harold Ramis, Christopher Guest, and Gilda Radner. A new generation of humorists emerged from the crucible of the Lampoon to help create Saturday Night Live and the influential film Animal House, among many other notable comedy landmarks. Journalist Ellin Stein, an observer of the scene since the early 1970s, draws on a wealth of revealing, firsthand interviews with the architects and impresarios of this comedy explosion to offer crucial insight into a cultural transformation that still echoes today. Brimming with insider stories and set against the roiling political and cultural landscape of the 1970s, That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick goes behind the jokes to witness the fights, the parties, the collaborations—and the competition—among this fraternity of the self-consciously disenchanted. Decades later, their brand of subversive humor that provokes, offends, and often illuminates is as relevant and necessary as ever.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107293722

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The Harvard Lampoon by Anonim Pdf