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- The New Yorker’s “Paunch,” 1934
- NatLamp’s “Why Leave This Room?” 1982
- An Overlooked NatLamp Spoof, 1977
- Portfolio: 10 Parodies from the 1920s
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- Parodies of Mad, 1954-2019
- Online: Collier’s WW3 & Shaft’s “Collera’s,” 1951-52
- Bicentennial Burlesques, 1975-76 (and 2008)
- Online: “The Washington Post,” 2019
- “A Word with Punch,” 1847
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Wisconsin Octopus Parodies, 1920-1959
The Magazine Before The Onion, the most famous humor magazine to come out of Madison was the University of Wisconsin Octopus, b. November 1919, d. 1959, after UW officials found the May issue so offensive they extinguished the title. The editors … Continue reading
Posted in College Parodies, College: 1890s-1945, College: 1946 on
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, College, Flair, Life, Online, Playboy, The New Yorker, Time, Wisconsin Octopus
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Columbia Jester Parodies, 1913-1989
Jester of Columbia, to use its formal title, wasn’t the first publication at Columbia University to include humor, but it was the first to exclude everything else. It debuted on April Fool’s Day, 1901, twenty-four years after the birth of … Continue reading
The Most Parodied Magazine?
(WARNING: The following observations are based on the author’s own haphazard — though extensive — collecting and are informed speculation, not gospel. It is even possible his list of Most Parodied Magazines is imperfect and should include Confidential, Liberty, Mad, National Geographic, Police Gazette, Popular Mechanics, Rolling Stone or Vogue. Further research is called for, as they … Continue reading
Posted in College Parodies, Newsstand Parodies
Tagged Life, Playboy, The New Yorker, Time
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