That's Not Funny That's Sick The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured The

Name: That's Not Funny That's Sick The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured The
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ISBN: 9780393074093

ISBN-10: 0393074099

ISBN-13: 9780393074093

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Authors: Ellin Stein

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Labor Day, 1969. Two recentHarvard graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. The two brilliant humorists, Henry Beard and DougKenney, presided over a team that within a decade transformed American cultureand conquered the mainstream with a brand of subversive humor that provoked,offended, and often illuminated. With unparalleled access to the architects andimpresarios of this boom, journalist Ellin Stein takes us behind the jokes towitness the fighting and partying, collaboration and competition of those wholed a rebellion of the self-consciously disenchanted. At its zenith, the brandbirthed the anarchic earthiness of John Belushi, the suave slapstick of…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/24/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




Lampy's Castle



Revenge of the Liberal Arts Majors



There but for Advertisers …



Big and Glossy and Wonderful



Twenty-Four Hours a Day



The Breaking of the Table



OK, Now Jump



A Disgusting Impulse to Perform



Meanwhile, Back at the Radio Ranch…



Real Balls



Girlz



Alienation Inc.



The Audience Is Snarling



Channeling



Hey, Looka Me!



Over Their Heads



The Ceiling Opens



The Forest Is Leveled



The Rocket Falls Out



Visiting the Harem with Silks



Charlie Manson Goes to High School



Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Dildo, Please



Remodeling



Spinning Off



A Memo from God


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index