“We were thinking along the lines of Ralph Nader.” “The American public wanted Henry Kissinger,” said James Downey, a Lampoonster.
In the present issue, the centerfold subject brandishes a cigar in the right hand, covers his privates with the left arm, and leans back, grinning, on the skin of a giant panda. The last parody was of TIME magazine in 1969. Monday, the Lampoon released advanced copies of its latest parody – Cosmopolitan magazine, which recently published a centerfold picture of actor Burt Reynolds.įor the past 98 years, the Lampoon has been poking fun at various publications, printing absurdly funny articles and pictures in an exaggeration of the style and format the publications use. The Harvard Lampoon has struck again, after a three-year silence. Somebody else says it’s only Kissinger’s face “on the body of a cab driver we met near Central Park.” One member of the Harvard Lampoon staff says it is, because Kissinger “was the only person to call us up and volunteer for the centerfold.” Is that really Henry Kissinger, presidential adviser supreme?
Spindly, hairy legs reach demurely for the right side of the centerfold. (UPI) - The Cosmopolitan Man’s pearly teeth glitter above a freckled pot belly. Quite a few newspapers across the country ran this story.ĬAMBRIDGE, Mass. In this case, however, the featured what would now be called a “photoshopped” version of a nude Henry Kissinger. In this case, they decided to do a parody of Cosmopolitan Magazine, which had recently published a nude centerfold picture of actor Burt Reynolds. We developed enough of a relationship that they would call me when they were planning something. When I worked for UPI in Boston in the early 1970s, I found the Harvard Lampoon, across the Charles River in Cambridge’s Harvard Square, to be a great source of funny stories.
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