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After establishing himself through his work as a writer for the hit TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Borowitz left the security of Hollywood...
...website, has authored four books, and makes regular appearances on CNN’s American Morning and in stand-up—and Borowitz still attributes part of his comedic inspiration to his undergraduate years at Harvard...
While a student, Borowitz made a name for himself as a writer, a director, and an actor in several plays, in addition to his involvement with the Harvard Lampoon. And while many of his exploits helped to garner him notoriety around campus, some of the press he encountered was not quite so positive...
...summer before his senior year, Borowitz and the Lampoon sent out a special prank issue of The Crimson to all of the incoming freshmen, in which they described college life as one filled with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The description was so vivid and disconcerting for many of the prefrosh and their parents that University Hall was flooded with angry phone calls and threats of transfers to Yale...
...Harvard administration did not take kindly to the prank and pressured Borowitz to reveal the name of the source who provided him with incoming students’ addresses...