As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've…

You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul…

— P. J. O'Rourke

From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“What are you doing here?" she asked as she slowed from a jog to a walk and placed her hands on her hips. It…

— Kimberly Derting

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on…

— Bill Murray

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you…

— Bill Murray

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

— Anonymous

My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid, coming across…

— Charlie Kaufman

“This was like National Lampoon's Vacation, but with death, property destruction, and an Irish accent.”

— Abigail Roux

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

— Ricky Van Veen

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them…

— Drew Carey

“He checked his parachute and launched himself into the Sea of Sarcasm. --Havana Red”

— Leonardo Padura

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

— P. J. O'Rourke