The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, July 13, 1978, Page Page 4, Image 4
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It seems that as
has always bee
known of such p
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Doug Henney foi
be lifetime frier
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impact on more
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as s000 as wt 1
youth, fresh wit
greeted the pub
anxious hopes.
The Lampoon
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V,.JL//A another step fu]
versity. Says s
"Every issue wt
far we could go,
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we could step or
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been one hundred issues sine
al Lampoon first graced un
s stands with . its soon to b
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been eight and one-half vear
irican public first saw tin
forerunner of no-holds-barre<
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hat have been around forever
far back as I remember, then
in a National Lampoon. I'v<
eople as P.J. O'Rourke, Chrii
O'Donahue, Ed Subitzky an(
* so long now that they seem t<
tds.
ipoon has had an important
lives than just mine, though
arted raising a ruckus almost
the stands. Tlie new Americar
h the new American humor
lication with open arms anc
did not disappoint the eagerly
-eyed masses. Each issue was
rther down the road to per
senior writer Chris Miller,
is an attempt to see just how
how much we could get awa>
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a little too far. The magazine
onic double standard existed.
Penthouse and other such
ere accepted, the idea of a
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multitudinous, explicitly ]
month after drooling mon
would receive fervent ber.
occasional, not-really-thi
pictures.
One probable reason for tl
way Lampoon presented the
j Hie Lampoon has been labc
and pioneers of* Is ick humor,
earned many times over. G
America might have gotten
pant sex of the smut slicks, Id
' time swallowing the sick s<
I heathen funny-book."
While the Lampoon caugl
: new views on sex, they en
trouble because of their |
} President Nixon and Watt
targets for the biting hum
1 publication. The Lampoon w
: harrassing just the recent
1 however; they went after su<
1 untouchables as Eisenhowei
j Roosevelts.
RELIGION HAS BEEN a
r merciless periodical over t
j them on the hit lists of more
age Americans. Every major
religion was caught with thei
r by the "heathen book." A j
r Nat Lamp religious humor i
; intelligent life on Mars,
Catholics."
Scorned by parents, hatec
conservative publications" a
that is anti-establishment, tl
became the big magazine for
High school kids loved the
the dirty pictures, and collet
mi i ?
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sit-explicit nudie receive any
pride in ?
le concern was the readers. The
ir "pornography." not exclusiv
iled as the experts The youth
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used to the ram- that it was i
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;x of "that filthy, Lampoon, th
thumbing tl
it flack over their magazine. /
countered serious used within i
jolitical parodies, exposed. Th;
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or of the fledling Some of the]
as not happy with good and ver
political figures, the material
:h great American seems that tl
r? fatton and the cover it.
The Natior
key target for the now difficull
he years, putting lies. The old
than a few middle diminished.'
, and some minor, boundaries;
r prophesies down they can go
prime example of casional bei
is the phrase "No accepted a:
but there are magazine.
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nd embodying all much of tods
he Lampoon soon Even though
America's youth, with their ri
funny stories and own minor \
;e folk ate up the "last mag ii
unprecedented cover." Goo*
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can kids could trust was
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DERS of National Lampoon h
I to accept anything, but al
punishment. Hie Lampoon
atari zing everything, ever
?targets of the scalding book
ely limited to "the establishm
of the sixties, the heads o
icism and even the T j)miwm
e knife. The Lampoon soon pi
not biased toward anyone,
e any doubts over the success <
tey are quickly allayed mere
irough any recent copy ol
I good many of the photogi
ire expertly touched up and d<
is requires not only good pers
sive equipment and proced
jrops used look very realistic,
y costly. It takes money to pr<
I that Nat Lamp presents, a
he magazine brings in the rev
tal Lampoon has come far, bu
t to see exactly where its fi
I sense of adventure is some
The Lampoon has proved it hi
they have showed just hov
. Although they still receive
ratement, the magazine is
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>nd memories of The Nat
le magazine has paved the wa
ly's easily accepted "new hun
i they no longer shock the v
sque humor, they still have i
victories. After all, they wen
n the U.S. to put Farrah or
d luck, you guys. It's been fi
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