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Henry Beard

Henry Beard
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Henry Beard

Henry Beard attended Harvard University and was a member of the Harvard Lampoon. He went on to found the National Lampoon with Douglas Kenney and served as its editor during the magazine’s heyday in the 1970s. He has written numerous bestselling humor books, including Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life and (with Christopher Cerf) The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook.

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Encyclopedia Paranoiaca will be released on November 19, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
Encyclopedia Paranoiaca will be released on November 20, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 20, 2012
Encyclopedia Paranoiaca is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 20, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Dick Cheney Code
Aug 30, 2012
Golf will be released on April 06, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Apr 06, 2012
Golf is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 06, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Golf
Feb 11, 2012
Excerpt:
Introduction from Golf
Feb 03, 2010
Golf is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 08, 2009
Golf will be released on December 08, 2009 in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 08, 2009
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Introduction from Golf
Nov 04, 2009
The Dick Cheney Code will be released on October 29, 2004 in eBook
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Onion AV Club, March 27, 2013
...as Michael O’Donoghue (with whom Hendra formed a tight friendship that went very bad), Doug Kenney, and Henry Beard. It’s wrapped inside a sharp critical history of how the smart-sophomoric humor favored by the ’60s generation infiltrated and took...
Pop Matters, January 7, 2013
...of bed—as well as highlighting the many assorted dangers that lurk between the sheets. Authored by bestselling satirists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, Encyclopedia Paranoiaca trades upon on our modern fears. It underscores that no matter how...
Appeal-Democrat.com, December 28, 2012
...s really hard to turn your brain away from the inconsequentials. So why not read "Encyclopedia Paranoiaca" by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf and find some things to really worry about? Bleary-eyed, you crawled out of bed this morning, and that's...
Pantagraph.com, December 26, 2012
...Z pantagraph.com 27 minutes ago Author: Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf and the Staff of the Cassandra Institute c.2012, Simon & Schuster, $25.00, 383 pages You didn’t sleep very well at all last night...
Blogcritics.org, December 21, 2012
...slithering creature Goddam who has the ability to put listeners to sleep by telling his life's story. Henry Beard, who along with was one of the original authors, admits in his new introduction, boreward," that the Harvard Lampoon gang had no lofty...
Dayton Daily News, December 13, 2012
...Encyclopedia Paranoiaca: The Indispensable Guide to Everyone and Everything You Should be Afraid of or Worried About” by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus; Complete & Annotated” Kids: “The Wimpy Kid Book 7: The...
Marketplace, December 12, 2012
...this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed. Interview by Jeff Horwich Author: Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2012) Binding: Hardcover, 400 pages With every new innovation to...
Broadway World, January 17, 2013
...apologies to those unintentionally left out, list some. The original editors of the Lampoon were Doug Kenny and Henry Beard. They were soon joined by Michael O'Donahue, George Trow, TEd Mann, Tony Hendra, Brian McConnachie, Anne Beatts, P.J. O'Rourke,...
Media Bistro, January 7, 2013
...In this encore edition of the Morning Media Menu, we interviewed Henry Beard, a co-founder of National Lampoon and one of the writers behind the classic parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's work, . to read an excerpt from the interview. Beard...
Pop Matters, January 7, 2013
...of bed—as well as highlighting the many assorted dangers that lurk between the sheets. Authored by bestselling satirists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, Encyclopedia Paranoiaca trades upon on our modern fears. It underscores that no matter how...
Waco Tribune Herald, January 1, 2013
...of Midway Middle School’s Republic of Gears team are (front row, from left) Cade Tindell, Nathaniel Morgan, Henry Beard, Rachel Cotner, Gavin Whelan, (back row, from left) Alexandria Lewis, Jungwon Nam, Keaton Loudamy and Andy Kanz. Tracy Felder...
Killeen Daily Herald, December 30, 2012
...s really hard to turn your brain away from the inconsequentials. So why not read “Encyclopedia Paranoiaca” by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf and find some things to really worry about? Bleary-eyed, you crawled out of bed this morning and that’s...
Appeal-Democrat.com, December 28, 2012
...s really hard to turn your brain away from the inconsequentials. So why not read "Encyclopedia Paranoiaca" by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf and find some things to really worry about? Bleary-eyed, you crawled out of bed this morning, and that's...
Pantagraph.com, December 26, 2012
...Z pantagraph.com 27 minutes ago Author: Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf and the Staff of the Cassandra Institute c.2012, Simon & Schuster, $25.00, 383 pages You didn’t sleep very well at all last night...