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National Lampoon CEO accused of stock fraud

Federal prosecutors on Monday accused the CEO of National Lampoon Inc. and two other people of trying to inflate the company's stock price by paying people to buy shares.

Harvard Lampoon Sends Up Geographic

It looks like a typical National Geographic cover with the signature yellow border. So what's Paris Hilton doing on there? The folks at Harvard Lampoon persuaded employees of one of the nation's most respected magazines to help them ensure their April Fool's parody — with satire on Mongolia's wildest waterparks and "Native Girls Gone Wild" — looked authentic.

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Poll. The National Lampoon Movies. Did you read the magazine beforehand to get the connection?

I loved most of the National Lampoon movies. Of course "National Lampoon's Animal House" is the classic and the standard. It is the level of comedy that all other comedy movies need to be judged against since it came out.

Matt Lucas' lampoon dares the wrath of Susan Boyle fans
Source: Anglophenia

You gotta see the pic and it's sure to give you a laugh. Dressed in a yellow gown with beads around his neck and curly wig -- I'm sure he can't sing a lick as well as Susan but but it makes you do a double take.

Video: Blagojevich Lampooned Every Which Way
Source: local6.com

There is a scandalously funny side to the Gov. Rod Blagojevich scandal.

A Fey-Palin comedy summit? Stay tuned
Source: Associated Press - Google

NEW YORK (AP) — It seems like the inevitable comedic summit of this fall's presidential campaign: the real Sarah Palin coming on "Saturday Night Live" to meet her look-alike impersonator, Tina Fey.

Product Reviews for $500 cable
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This is an amazon.com ad for a $500 cable being sold. Go down and just read the product reviews, they're hilarious.

On America Celebrity and Excess
Source: The First Post

If any photographer is epic and big-budget enough to have his own trilogy, it's David LaChapelle.

MadTV Nails Apple and Bush in One Skit
Source: thedivertex.com

Personally, I've never been too fond of MadTV. It seems like a cheap knockoff of Saturday Night Live to me and I'm not surprised that most of its airtime is daytime TV. However, every once in a while, they get something truly genius.

Republican-English Dictionary
Source: ScienceBlogs

A published author who now is a friend of mine after I reviewed his book sent me some words that he found in a top-secret copy of the Republican-English Dictionary.

Muscle Milk: (recipe)

While going through the attic of my ancestors one night. I came across a surprising little recipe. I decided to look it over and bake me up a meal. I have to say, this is by far the best food for thought I'd had in some time.

Bush Takes a Beating - joe strupp
Source: AlterNet.org

This is a great article/review of Stephen Colbert's performance at the whitehouse correspondent dinner. I know that most folks have read/seen it already but I thought this article was well written.

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