List of The Harvard Lampoon members

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This list is of members of The Harvard Lampoon , a student satirical literary society founded in 1876.

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  1. ↑ Although he attended Stanford University, Weinstein is an honorary member of the Harvard Lampoon, as he worked on some of Lampoon's parody publications with Bill Oakley over the summers between course years. [48] [41]

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