National Lampoon releases first original album in 35 years
National Lampoon is set to release its first original album in more than 35 years, Are There Any Triggers Here Tonight? The album has been created by key Lampoon veteran Tony Hendra and his brilliant satirical team at The Final Edition Radio Hour. With its uncompromising satirical thrust and healthy disregard for establishment assumptions, Are […]
This Week In Comedy: Christmas (ads) with the Griswolds
<p> <p> </p> </p> <p> Doug Stanhope has a celebrity death pool. <p> [ DSCDP ] </p> Chris Brown’s Twitter war with a comedy writer. <p> [ Huffington Post ] </p> That time Old Navy re-tooled National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation for a commercial. <p> [ Youtube ] </p> Judd Apatow wrote a spec script for […]
A Futile and Stupid conversation with director David Wain
Doug Kenney was the face of the cultural comedy shift of the 70s and 80s, without 90 percent of people ever knowing whose face that was. Doug Kenney was the founder of the National Lampoon magazine, formed The National Lampoon Radio Hour, staged National Lampoon’s Lemmings, and wrote only two movies in his life span: National […]
Bert Kreischer’s “The Machine” story is being turned into a movie
UPDATE: The movie has begun shooting with a Star Wars vet portraying Kreisher’s father. Fun fact for anyone that might not know… Bert Kreischer’s life is a movie. Long story short, when the comedian was in college in the late 90s Rolling Stone magazine wrote a story about Kreischer’s hard-partying ways on the campus of […]
Here’s the trailer for “A Futile And Stupid Gesture” movie about National Lampoon
David Wain’s movie about the co-founder of National Lampoon, A Futile And Stupid Gesture is set to premiere on Netflix next month. Up until this point, we’ve only had a few image stills to get an idea about the flick. But today, like it was a bit of a Christmas miracle, Netflix dropped a star-studded […]
David Wain’s National Lampoon movie, “A Futile And Stupid Gesture” coming to Netflix in January
David Wain has been hard at work making a movie about National Lampoon founder Doug Kenney for a while now. The project, announced back in 2016, stars Will Forte as the title character – a tragic figure who not only was a large part of the creative force behind National Lampoon magazine but also co-wrote […]