The Harvard Lampoon

There he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon, the school’s prestigious humor magazine, and was elected president of the magazine for an unprecedented two consecutive terms in 1983–84.

…of whom had worked on The Harvard Lampoon, a college humor magazine established in 1876. During their tenure at The Harvard Lampoon, Beard, Hoffman, and Kenney were instrumental in publishing several nationally distributed magazine and book parodies, including parodies of Time, Playboy, Life, and Lord of the Rings.