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Credits

Writer: Josh Karp; Genre: Nonfiction; Publisher: Chicago Review
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By Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk is a senior writer at EW and the author of ''Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desparate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor''

National Lampoon, the outrageous institution that put a gun to a pooch's head, is chronicled via the life of Doug Kenney, one of the magazine's founders and Animal House co-writer.

Begat P.J. O'Rourke, John Hughes, Saturday Night Live, gross-out comedy movies.

Final Judgment

Josh Karp tiresomely states and restates in A Futile and Stupid Gesture that NL was the Funniest Thing Ever, but his awed CliffsNoting of countless articles drains the humor out of them and undermines his own case.


Posted Oct 27, 2006
 

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