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That's not funny, that's sick : the National lampoon and the comedy insurgents who captured the mainstream

That's not funny, that's sick : the National lampoon and the comedy insurgents who captured the mainstream

Book 2013

Labor Day, 1969. Two recent Harvard graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called the National Lampoon. Brilliant humorists Henry Beard and Doug Kenney presided over a team that within a decade transformed American culture and conquered the mainstream with a brand of subversive humor that provoked, offended, and often illuminated. With unparalleled access to the architects and impresarios of this boom, journalist Ellin Stein takes us b...