National Lampoon

The National Lampoon is a humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. Harvard graduates and Lampoon alumni Douglas Kenney, Henry Beard, and Rob Hoffman licensed the "Lampoon" name for a national publication.

Circulation

The Lampoon's commercial heyday was roughly 1973-75, with its national circulation peaking at 1,000,096 copies sold of a single October 1974 issue. The Lampoon's 1974 monthly average was 830,000.

Related Topics:
October - 1974

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A 2005 New York Times article by Jake Tapper makes the incorrect claim that the magazine once had more than a million subscribers; this is likely a misconstruing of the above sales peak. Former Lampoon editor Tony Hendra's book "Going Too Far" includes a series of precise circulation figures for the National Lampoon, some of which appear above; they contradict the Times article. The New York Times also printed a letter from the magazine's current editor Scott Rubin on July 17, 2005, referring to NationalLampoon.com attracting "over a million readers a month -- the same readership the magazine had at its height."

Related Topics:
New York Times - Jake Tapper - Tony Hendra - July 17 - 2005

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