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
Price: 5.95 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780393350241

ISBN-10: 039335024X

ISBN-13: 9780393350241

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ellin Stein

List price: $16.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $7.88

Marketplace

4 new & used from $5.95

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists including Michael O Donoghue and P. J. O Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant voice of American comedy.Ranging from sophisticated political satire to broad raunchy jokes, the National Lampoon introduced iconoclasm to the mainstream, selling millions of copies to an audience both large and devoted. Its excursions into live shows, records, and radio helped shape the anarchic earthiness of John Belushi, the suave slapstick of…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English