Download Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great

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Drunk
Stoned Brilliant Dead The Writers and Artists
Who
Made
the
National
Lampoon
Insanely
Great
Description
Reprints and reminiscences from the
magazine8217sfirst
decade
8220Futo flip throughnbspnbspnbsp Where
would American humor be without the National
Lampoon?82218212The New YorkerFrom its first
issue in April 1970, the National Lampoon blazed
like a comet, defining comedy as we know it
today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead,
former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz
selected the funniest material from the magazine
and sought out the survivors of its first
electrifying decade to gather their
most revealing and outrageous stories. The result
is a mind-boggling tour
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through the early days of an institution whose
alumni left their fingerprints all over popular
culture Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night
Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living
Color, Ren ampStimpy, The Simpsons8212evn
Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its
ranks. This is the story of a band of young
talents who 8220irevocably rewrote the
landscape of American humor8221(Publishers
Weekly).8220Avivid picture of a tight-knit
family of twentysomething humorists at the dawn
of their careers.82218212NesweekquotTheother
night I started laughing so hard I had to leave
the roomnbspnbspnbsp And then I realized that
I hadn8217tlaughed so hard in 35 years, since I
was a teenager, reading National Lampoon.82218
212Th Wall Street Journal8220Ifyou grew up with
the Lampoon, this book is a trip down memory lane
like no other if not, it will demonstrate that
the much maligned 70s could produce humor that
has never been surpassed.82218212Vaity Fair