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by The Harvard Lampoon

This issue of Harvard’s Lampoon comes during a time of crisis. The number of people who read our bi-quarterly joke journal has fallen so prosaically that we no longer even check whether our choice of adverbs make sense. At its peak in 1985, the Lampoon sold over one-million copies of its annual Olympics ’76 Program Parody. Today, our business staff estimates that the subscription base is somewhere between N/A and like a couple hundred? Advertisers, if you’re reading this, please note that I meant to write 75,000. And in our defense, most of our subscribers are dentists, so the true number of people who ignore the Lampoon is much higher if you factor in the highly sought-after waiting room demographic.

82 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 29, 2011