National Lampoon quickly grew in both popularity in 1970s, when it regularly skewered pop culture, counterculture and politics with recklessness and gleeful bad taste. The notorious January 1973 shot of a human hand holding a revolver to the head of a docile-looking dog, who suspiciously eyes the firearm with a sideways glance. Many animal activist groups issued complains over this magazine and it is still extremely famous to this day.
Gisele Bundchen/LeBron James Vogue: Vogue's cover featuring NBA star LeBron James and supermodel Gisele Bundchen caused a lot of chatter over whether their King Kong-like pose perpetuated racial and sexual stereotypes.
Obama illustration/The New Yorker: Illustrator Barry Blitt's cover called "The Politics of Fear" featured Barack and Michelle Obama in stereotypical images designed to "satirize the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign," according to The New Yorker's press release. Many did not get the joke; Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton called it "tasteless and offensive."
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