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The ultimate biography of National Lampoon and its cofounder Doug Kenney, this book offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters. With wonderful stories of the comedy scene in New York City in the 1970's and National Lampoon's place at the center of it, this chronicle shares how the magazine spawned a popular radio show and two long-running theatrical productions that helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Gilda Radner and went on to inspire Saturday Night Live. More than 130 interviews were conducted with people connected to Kenney and the magazine, including Chevy Chase, John Hughes, P. J. O'Rourke, Tony Hendra, Sean Kelly, Chris Miller, and Bruce McCall. These interviews, along with behind-the-scenes stories about the making of both Animal House and Caddyshack, help to capture the nostalgia, humor, and popular culture that National Lampoon still inspires.
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"Fun, fast, and furious." --Library Journal
"Jammed with personalities and capsule histories." --The New York Times
"Josh Karp has informed us well about one of the funniest and innovative humorists of the last century. Doug Kenny was a great friend of mine and it is a good read." --Chevy Chase, actor, Caddyshack
"The sharpest analysis yet of how success, self-doubt and drugs led one of his generation's wittiest minds down a blind path." --Philadelphia Citypaper
"Josh Karp achieves the unthinkable--he's written an essential American excavation of comedy that is, of itself, very, very, very, very, very, very funny. Doug Kenney would be extremely proud and humbled, if he weren't dead." --Bill Zehme, author, Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman
"The definitive profile of Kenney's brilliant comic mind and his too-short life." --Richard Roeper, film critic, Chicago Sun-Times
"A must-read for the curious, comedy aficionados, and subversively shy teenagers everywhere." --Mark McKinney, actor, Kids in the Hall
"[This] is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of the man and publication that all but defined the comedy zeitgeist of the last 35 years." --Rob Siegel, former editor, The Onion
About the Author
Josh Karp is a freelance journalist who writes for a variety of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly Online, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Premiere, and Salon.com.
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- PublisherChicago Review Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1556527624
- ISBN 13 9781556527623
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages432
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