“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies. — Ricky Van Veen Copy Share Image
I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing. — Cyrus Broacha Copy Share Image
You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon,… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“This was like National Lampoon's Vacation, but with death, property destruction, and an Irish accent.” — Abigail Roux Copy Share Image
From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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