National Lampoon co-founder Robert K. Hoffman
Posted: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 8:20 pm
Robert K. Hoffman, one of three founders of the irreverent National Lampoon magazine, has died. He was 59.
Hoffman, a noted Dallas philanthropist, died Sunday at an area hospital. He had been suffering from leukemia since December, according to his family.
He was a co-founder and managing editor of the humorous National Lampoon, spawned from the Harvard Lampoon, created while he was a student at the university. …
“National Lampoon never would have happened, and none of the things that came out of it would have happened, without Robert,” Henry Beard, one of the other co-founders of the magazine, said in Tuesday’s editions of The Dallas Morning News. “He had an exceptional pair of talents — he was extremely smart, and utterly fearless.”
The third founder, Doug Kenney, died in the early 1980s. … Read full obituary
