Harvard Lampoon

The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor organization and publication founded in 1876 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The erratically-produced magazine, The Harvard Lampoon, was originally modelled on the former British satirical periodical Punch, and has outlived it to become the world's longest-running humor magazine. The organization also produces occasional humor books (the best known being the 1969 J.R.R. Tolkien parody Bored of the Rings) and parodies of national magazines. Much of the organization's capital is provided by the licensing of the "Lampoon" name to National Lampoon, begun by Harvard Lampoon graduates in 1970.

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Undergraduate - 1876 - Harvard University - Cambridge - Massachusetts - Magazine - Satirical - Punch - Humor - 1969 - J.R.R. Tolkien - Bored of the Rings - National Lampoon - 1970

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Notable Harvard Lampoon alumni include John Reed, William Randolph Hearst, George Plimpton, Fred Gwynne, John Updike, Conan O'Brien, Cass Sunstein, and innumerable writers and producers for The Simpsons, Futurama, Late Night with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, News Radio, Seinfeld and many other television comedies.

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John Reed - William Randolph Hearst - George Plimpton - Fred Gwynne - John Updike - Conan O'Brien - Cass Sunstein - The Simpsons - Futurama - Late Night with David Letterman - Saturday Night Live - News Radio - Seinfeld

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The organization is housed a few blocks from Harvard Square in a small mock-Flemish castle with a copper statue of an ibis on the roof.

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Harvard Square - Flemish - Copper - Statue - Ibis

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