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A Futile and Stupid Gesture: ... The main title of the book is a quote from Animal House, part of a line spoken by the character Otter. Film adaptation
A Futile and Stupid Gesture is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film based on Josh Karp's book of the same title, directed by David Wain, and written by Michael Colton and John Aboud. The film stars Will Forte as comedy writer Douglas Kenney , during the rise and fall of National Lampoon .
National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller. It stars John Belushi , Tim Matheson , John Vernon , Verna Bloom , Thomas Hulce , and Donald Sutherland .
Kenney remained on the staff until 1977, when he left the magazine to co-write the screenplay to National Lampoon's Animal House with Chris Miller and Harold Ramis. [2] Kenney said of his time with the National Lampoon: "The Harvard Lampoon was my 'animal house.' I didn’t want it to end, so I got Matty to make it a national magazine.
National Lampoon's Animal House Book was an American humor book that was published in 1978 by National Lampoon magazine. The book was an illustrated novel based on the hit movie National Lampoon's Animal House. The cover illustration was the illustration for the movie poster, which was by Rick Meyerowitz.
Metcalf's first major Hollywood film role was that of ROTC cadet officer Douglas Neidermeyer in the 1978 comedy Animal House. [3] In 1984, Metcalf played characters similar to Neidermeyer in the Twisted Sister music videos for the songs "We're Not Gonna Take It", where he played an authoritarian father, and "I Wanna Rock", where he played an authoritarian high school teacher.
This inspired the cult comedy, Animal House, which launched the career of John Belushi. [12] Going freelance in 1981, O'Rourke had his work published in Playboy, Vanity Fair, Car and Driver, [13] and Rolling Stone. He became foreign-affairs desk chief at Rolling Stone, where he remained until 2001. [14]
The That's Not Funny, That's Sick album is a collection of sketches, several of which were taken from the National Lampoon Radio Hour, a radio show that was broadcast on 600 radio stations from late 1973 to the end of 1974.