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Recent Posts
- Online: Punch’s “Time,” 1960
- Playboy Parodies 3: Foreign, 1963-2017
- Playboy Parodies 2: U.S. Newsstands, 1957-2018
- Playboy Parodies 1: College, 1955-1989
- Jester’s “Columbia College Toady,” 1969
- Harvard’s “New York Times,” March 7, 1968
- National Lampoon Parodies, A to Z
- National Lampoon Parodies, 1970-2006
- Duke + Look = “Dook,” 1949
- “The Bilioustine,” 1901
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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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