Editing National Lampoon (magazine) (section)

=== Features ===
====Editorials====
Every regular monthly issue of the magazine had an editorial at the front of the magazine. This often appeared to be straightforward but was always a parody. It was written by whoever was the editor of that particular issue, since that role rotated among the staff; [[Douglas Kenney]] had been the main writer of them for the first few issues. Some issues were guest-edited.

====True Facts====
"True Facts" was a section near the front of the magazine that contained true but ridiculous items from real life. Together with the [[Masthead (American publishing)|masthead]], it was one of the few parts of the magazine that was factual. As was explained in the introduction to the "True Facts" 1981 newsstand special, the "True Facts" column was started in 1972 by Henry Beard, and it was based on a feature called "True Stories" in the British publication ''[[Private Eye]]''. It was essentially a column of funny news briefs.

P. J. O'Rourke created the first "True Facts Section" in August 1977. This section included photographs of unintentionally funny signage, extracts from ludicrous newspaper reports, strange headlines, and so on.

In 1981 and for many subsequent years John Bendel was in charge of the "True Facts" section of the magazine. Bendel produced the 1981 newsstand special mentioned above. Several "True Facts" compilation books were published during the 1980s and early 90s, and several all-True-Facts issues of the magazine were published during the 1980s.

In the early 2000s, Steven Brykman edited the "True Facts" section of the National Lampoon [[website]].

====Foto Funnies====
Most issues of the magazine featured one or more "Foto Funny" or [[Photonovel|fumetti]], comic strips that use photographs instead of drawings as illustrations. The characters who appeared in the Lampoon's Foto Funnies were usually the male writers, editors, artists, photographers, or contributing editors of the magazine, often cast alongside nude or semi-nude female models. In 1980, a paperback compilation book, ''National Lampoon Foto Funnies'' which appeared as a part of ''[[National Lampoon Comics]]'', was published.

====Funny Pages====
The "Funny Pages" was a large section at the back of the magazine that was composed entirely of [[comic strip]]s of various kinds. These included work from a number of artists who also had pieces published in the main part of the magazine, including Gahan Wilson, [[Ed Subitzky]] and [[Vaughn Bodē]], as well as artists whose work was only published in this section. The regular strips included "Dirty Duck" by [[Bobby London]], "Trots and Bonnie" by [[Shary Flenniken]], "The Appletons" and "Timberland Tales" by [[B. K. Taylor]], "Politeness Man" by [[Ron Barrett]], and many other strips. A compilation of Gahan Wilson's "Nuts" strip was published in 2011. The "Funny Pages" logo header art, which was positioned above Gahan Wilson's "Nuts" in each issue, and showed a comfortable, old-fashioned family reading newspaper-sized funny papers, was drawn by [[Michael Kaluta]].