Former Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

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