- Friend of Douglas Kenney. They met while attending Harvard College, and they both served as editor of the Harvard Lampoon. In 1970 he was one of three former Harvard Lampoon editors to found National Lampoon magazine (the others were Douglas Kenney and Robert Hoffman).
- Has written 39 short books of linguistically oriented humor, three guides to politically correct language and thee handbooks of Latin adapted to contemporary usage.
- In 1968, Beard and Douglas Kenney wrote the successful parody Bored of the Rings.
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