A Futile and Stupid Gesture : : how Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Performing Arts / General / Karp, Josh
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Introduction: Midas at the Marmont xi -- 1 Hayley Mills in Pleasantville 1 -- 2 The Most Perfect WASP 18 -- 3 Here Is New York 41 -- 4 You've Got a Weird Mind: You'll Fit in Well Here 58 -- 5 What Do Women Eat? 91 -- 6 Hitler Being Difficult 118 -- 7 Show Biz and Dead Dogs 152 -- 8 Guns and Sandwiches 198 -- 9 The Pirates 237 -- 10 The Cultural Revolution 263 -- 11 Fuck the Proposal 283 -- 12 Round Up the Usual Jews 302 -- 13 Pheasant Shake for Mr. Kenney 327 -- 14 A Year with No Spring 348.
The first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters. With stories of the comedy scene in New York City in the 1970s and National Lampoon's place at the center of it, author Karp shows 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 and 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 inspires.--From publisher description.

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