National Geographic
A Harvard Lampoon Parody
Available on newsstands across the country!
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For April Fool's Day, the class-skipping slackers of the Harvard Lampoon have unveiled their latest parody issue: National Geographic—A Harvard Lampoon Parody. The special edition offers a long-overdue skewering of the iconic publication, sure to shock everyone from the Zulu of Zimbabwe to the Ice People of Antarctica.
The issue’s cover features socialite and Harvard Lampoon “Woman of the Year” Paris Hilton as she’s never been seen before: sexy and glamorous. More shocking than Lindsay Lohan’s pictorial spread in New York magazine, Paris Hilton strips down as an homage to superhottie Jane Goodall in “Paris Hilton After Dark—Your Wildest Animal Fantasies.”
Other features include:
• Top Ten Rainiest Rainforests—Will this be the Amazon’s year?
• Mongolia’s Wildest Waterparks
• Baskets on Heads—A Retrospective
• Native Girls Gone Wild
• What the Beijing Olympic Committee Doesn’t Want You to Know
• Boobs You Can Look at in the Dentist’s Office
Click here to read about the parody in the news.
Click here for past Lampoon parodies.
The parody will be distributed at a print run of 210,000 to newsstands and bookstore across the country, everywhere National Geographic is sold. The issue will reach 30,000 Harvard Lampoon subscribers and 15,000 Harvard students and alumni.
The cover price for the magazine will be $5.95, exactly as much as a regular issue of National Geographic plus a McChicken Sandwich from the McDonald’s Dollar Menu.
At National Geographic’s Washington DC headquarters, editors have been unavailable for comment, though there has been a spike in suicide pills at the lobby convenience store and hallway rumors of a “code red.”
About the Lampoon
Founded in 1876, and published five times yearly, the Harvard Lampoon has become the world's longest-running humor magazine still in publication. Previous magazine parodies include: Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Newsweek, New Yorker, People and Sports Illustrated. Click here to see past Lampoon parodies. The Lampoon has many accomplished alumni, including Conan O’Brien, John Updike, George Plimpton, and William Randolph Hearst. Graduates in the past thirty years have gone on to write for hit televisions shows such as The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, The Office and Seinfeld. Others have achieved success in the film industry, producing movies like National Lampoon’s Animal House. For a more detailed history of the Lampoon, click here!
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