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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
- Wisconsin Octopus Parodies, 1920-1959
- 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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- National Lampoon Parodies, 1970-2006
- Parodies In Playboy, 1970-2000
- Playboy Parodies 3: Foreign, 1963-2017
- Parodies in Mad, 1954-2017
- National Lampoon Parodies, A to Z
- Yale Record Parodies Since 1926
- Online: National Lampoon's "Mad," 1971
- Parodies of Mad, 1954-2019
- Portfolio: 10 Parodies from the 1920s
- The New Yorker's "Paunch," 1934
My Other Life
Tag Archives: Reader’s Digest
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
Parodists and Copycats
When is a parody not a parody? When it’s a straight-faced, money-grubbing imitation, according to the courts. Lawsuits over parodies of copyrighted works are rare and their outcomes unpredictable, but two things any accused parodist better be able to show are (1) that no reasonable person could … Continue reading
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