College humor magazines

Many colleges and universities publish satirical journals, conventionally referred to as "humor magazines."

Among the most famous: The Harvard Lampoon, which gave rise to the National Lampoon in 1970, The Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine (founded in 1872), the Princeton Tiger Magazine which was founded in 1882, Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, founded in 1899, the Stanford Chaparral founded in 1899, and Jester of Columbia, founded 1901.

In 1998 two student-run arts and satire publications in Rochester, NY began a nonprofit content-sharing and re-publication organization called Hell's Kitchen. Between 1998 and 2005 Hell's Kitchen had eight member publications with mutual publication agreements across five different campuses. The combined "Hell's Kitchen" title included entire issues from multiple publications printed together and distributed at multiple universities, effectively making it an inter-university, independent student publication. It was interviewed by the Independent Press Association^[1] about their unusual organizational structure, and was a member of Uwire^[2]. Hell's Kitchen was reconstituted in 2025.

In 2022, leadership of several college humor magazines pooled together to form the College Satire Guild, a nonprofit with the stated purpose of "fostering creative expression...through satirical journalism."^[3] At its peak the membership included thirteen colleges.^[4] The organization had its nonprofit status revoked by the IRS in 2025.