The Brown Jug
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| Editor | Simon Henriques, Jay Mamana |
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| Categories | Humor magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Circulation | 1500 |
| Publisher | TCI Publishing |
| Year founded | 1920, Brown University |
| First issue | February 1920 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
The Brown Jug (also known as The Jug) is a college humor magazine founded in 1920 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Following the death of the Brunonian in February 1919,The Brown Jug was founded in February 1920, making it Brown's oldest humor publication and second-oldest publication overall (Brown's student newspaper, The Brown Daily Herald, founded in 1891, is the only publication that pre-dates the Jug). The Jug's original statement of purpose read:
"The Brown Jug, a magazine of wit, administered in monthly installments, is published by the Board of Jugglers ... The Brown Jug is on sale on news stands, hotel stands and railroad stations in Providence, New York and Boston."
The cover of the Jug's first issue showed a girl in party dress and hat emerging from a bandbox holding a small bear; it proclaimed this the “Coming Out Number,” and the masthead identified it as “Vintage of 1920 ... Jugful Number 1.”
Since its founding, the Brown Jug has been dissolved and resurrected a number of times by various Brown students and organizations. It first ceased publication in 1933, as current dean Samuel T. Arnold announced that “The demand for publications of this type appears to have waned considerably." In the early 1960s, it was revived for a brief period of time, only to disband again the following year. As noted by the Encyclopedia Brunoniana, "It was not the same." In 1986 it was renamed Exit 20 and ran under that moniker until it was rechristened as The Brown Jug in May 1999. This incarnation of the Jug, the second in its history, came to an end in spring 2008.
In Fall 2009, the Jug was adopted by members of Brown's satirical newspaper, The Brown Noser. The so-called New Brown Jug scrapped the Mad Magazine style of the 1967-2008 period, instead opting for a clean black-and-white design with content more akin to the long-form satire found in McSweeney's. It continues to be published in this form, and is part of a collective of Brown comedy groups, along with Improvidence, Starla and Sons, and The Brown Noser, known as the "Brown Barrel."
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