How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever
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- Release Date: 09/01/2006
- Publisher: Chicago Review Press
- Classification: Nonfiction
- Classification: Nonfiction
- Series: N/A
- Language: English
- Format: Unabridged edition
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Comedy
- Author: Josh Karp
- Read by: Chris Lutkin
- Duration: 917 minutes
- Run Time: 917 minutes
- Language: English
- Language: English
- Audio Library Digital - 9781520086217
- Audio Retail Digital - 9781520086224
- 12 Audio CD(s) - 9781520086194
- 2 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781520086231
- Playaway - 9781520086248
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever
How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever
- By Josh Karp
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Comedy
Audio Library Digital
10/03/2017
917 minutes
9781520086217
Audio Retail Digital
10/03/2017
917 minutes
9781520086224
Audio CD
10/03/2017
12 Audio CD
917 minutes
9781520086194
Audio MP3 CD
10/03/2017
2 Audio MP3 CD
917 minutes
9781520086231
Playaway
10/03/2017
917 minutes
9781520086248
Description:
This ultimate biography of National Lampoon and its cofounder Doug Kenney offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters. Relying on wonderful stories about the comedy scene in New York City in the 1970s and National Lampoon's place at the center of it, author Josh Karp chronicles 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 that went on to inspire Saturday Night Live. That history along with interviews conducted with more than 130 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-and behind-the-scenes stories about the making of Animal House and Caddyshack help to capture the nostalgia, humor, and popular culture that National Lampoon still inspires.Quotes:
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...an iridescent, polychromatic portrait of the humorist, framed within an amusing anecdotal history of National Lampoon., Publishers Weekly
...an iridescent, polychromatic portrait of the humorist, framed within an amusing anecdotal history of National Lampoon., Publishers Weekly
Both Karp's well-researched analysis of why NL succeeded, shuddered, and ultimately crashed and his biography of Kenney are compelling, and the latter is also mysterious...Karp's account of Kenney's death is as moving as the excerpts from excellent NL articles are hilarious., Booklist
Both Karp's well-researched analysis of why NL succeeded, shuddered, and ultimately crashed and his biography of Kenney are compelling, and the latter is also mysterious...Karp's account of Kenney's death is as moving as the excerpts from excellent NL articles are hilarious., Booklist
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