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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

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A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never-before-seen footage.

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Casting

DA

Danny Abelson

Self - Lampoon Contributor

Judd Apatow

Self - Film Director

Kevin Bacon

Self - Actor

Henry Beard

Self - Lampoon Founder

Anne Beatts

Self - Lampoon Contributor

Judith Belushi-Pisano

Self - Lampoon Staff

John Belushi

Self

John Belushi

Self - Actor

Richard Belzer

Self

Richard Belzer

Self - Actor

Richard Belzer

Self - Producer

Ed Bluestone

Self - Lampoon Contributor

CB

Christopher Buckley

Self - Author, Thank You for Smoking

John Candy

Self

John Candy

Self - Actor

Christopher Cerf

Self - Lampoon Contributor

Chevy Chase

Self - Actor

MC

Michel Choquette

Self

MC

Michel Choquette

Self - Lampoon Editor

George Coe

Self

George Coe

Self - Actor

Beverly D'Angelo

Self - Actor

Sean Daniel

Self - Universal Pictures

Shary Flenniken

Self - Lampoon Artist

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Delphine cole🎊✊🏾✊🏾May 29, 2023

source: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

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From the early 1970s to the late 90s, National Lampoon magazine was one of the biggest successes of satirical parody literature. By being a magazine where nearly everyone behind it could push the boundaries without caring about going too far, it has earned its place amongst some of the most innovative shock content out there. So naturally, its long lasting impact on comedy and humour were necessary for the subject of a documentary, entitled Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead. Released in 2015, on the 70th birth year of co-founder Henry Beard, the film is quite the revelation of the rise and fall of such an iconic magazine. The film itself details new interviews with National Lampoon staff members and other famous people who were fans of the magazine itself. On top of these interviews detailing a lot of context into how founders and Harvard alumni Douglas Kenney, Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman approached producer Matty Simmons to make their own inspired rendition off of the Harvard Lampoon, there are also never-before seen archival material from former late players including John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Michael O'Donoghue. As a magazine done to comment on society and the world in the mosto outlandish ways, the documentary breathes so much life into the material through the photos, animated recreations of already existing Lampoon work and even some transitional parodies from their radio show. At its core, National Lampoon was about saying what no one else had the guts to talk about, and while they were the subject of possible racism and sexism, anyone who understood raw comedy and anger through laughter kept the magazine afloat for so long. However, like most documentaries, it is also a chronicle of the biggest downfalls in the magazine's history, specifically related to Doug Kenney himself. Known for being as manic as he was brilliant, Kenney was known for unannounced AWOLs and frequent substance abuse which turned off some of his closest collaborators, not at all helped by his other experiments such as book and script writing being hit or miss. There are also talks of creative differences and bad behavior mentioned by Tony Hendra, Anne Beatts and Michael Gross. In spite of those, the main focus of the documentary is chronicling how a lot of the magazine took a downward spiral following Kenney's sudden death and newcomers being forced to go in directions that negatively affected the humor. Where National Lampoon was meant to say something absurd and shocking about a subject, its later years made it all shock without the substance. From numerous crazy additions, to film spin offs to different voices being heard, it's no wonder the magazine would stumble as much as it would triumph. Through a lot of dedication to the most far out magazine of its time and arguably today, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead might be the best retelling of the National Lampoon the world will ever get. Despite the creative shortcomings the magazine would face later on, its impact on parody and satire will forever remain a staple of pop culture for years to come. If you're curious to check out the documentary, by all means give it a go, for you don't even need to be all that familiar with the original source material to get invested. As far as documentaries on controversial comedy go, this one is up there among the greats.

Mr Yuz😎🇬🇲Nov 22, 2022

Everyone knows "Animal House" and the "Vacation" movies. You might remember that they carried the National Lampoon header. What you might not have known was that this header came from a cutting-edge magazine popular in the early '70s. "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon" looks at National Lampoon magazine, and how it influenced humor for the generation that came of age during the Vietnam War and Watergate. Not surprisingly, many of the people involved in the magazine starred on "Saturday Night Live". The documentary features interviews with Chevy Chase, Michael O'Donoghue, and other people involved with the magazine. In the process, we learn a lot about Doug Kenney; he helped launch the magazine and appeared as Stork in "Animal House" (What the hell we s'posta do, ya mo-ron?). Unfortunately, he met an ignoble end in Hawaii in 1980. Anyway, this is one documentary that you're sure to enjoy. The magazine's transgressive material was a real pleasure; those guys set out to offend everyone. Definitely check it out.

Mc swaggerNov 22, 2022

A movie about a magazine? Yes, not just any magazine though. It was the time in which many taboos were broken about sexuality, religiion and racism. It's rise to fame was back in the late sixties and early seventies. And the National Lampoon made the mold of breaking taboos. The magazine eventually died a spiritual and financial death, caused by lack of advertisers because the magazine was heavily boycotted, due to their offensive religious jokes, that didnt go down well with politics, when the hippie years were finally over. The good: we get to see a snapshot of time, which was a remarkable period and the birth of many genius comedians of whom John Landis (director) and Bill Murray (actor) are the best known (living) examples today. But we get to see John Belushi in his early days as well, which is the nicest surprise. However eventful and provocative their magazine was, this documentary is not an absolute thrill to watch, because some of the key creative minds are dead now and the other lesser artists are old and kinda jaded... Bill Murray did not take part in this documentary. I can only guess why...

Ali 💕Nov 22, 2022

I just watched this documentary about the rise & fall of National Lampoon magazine, a periodical I wasn't really supposed to be looking at when I was 14 in 1973, yet I did anyway (when I could find one). Despite average to good reviews here on IMDb, I found it quite enjoyable. I especially liked the parts where we caught video of a pre-fame Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, and of course John Belushi. Those guys WERE FUNNY! And it also allowed me to travel back in time to the mid-70's, a time when there was and actual "underground" comedy scene. And it seemed to poke fun of everybody (whites/blacks, Dems/Repubs, Jews/Gentiles) and you could laugh and not worry about "politically incorrect repercussions". Sadly, that time is long gone. Also, I saw a sh*t-load of 1970's era natural breasts, in both black and white and color! Say what you will about that long-lost magazine, they sure did know how to make funny visual jokes around naked women. I'm recommending this for anyone who'd like to take a nice 40+ year rewind.

GoyaMenorNov 22, 2022

Fairly conventional documentary of the very unconventional National Lampoon comedy machine through the decades. Footage and photos of the times interspersed with recollections by the remaining survivors today, talkin' bout the glory days, which, at their height, had the magazine #1 in the college readership and second only to Cosmo in national circulation. Out of that grew cabaret acts, SNL, and "Animal House" et al. Always known for their subversive humor of dubious taste, it's quite shocking to see what was considered progressive in the 60's, 70's, and '80's viewed from the pc world of today.

EpphyNov 22, 2022

The edgy, twisted, often outrageously funny Lampoon died years ago, although I recall it continued as the walking dead for a few years. This documentary follows the magazine from its pre-creation with the Harvard Lampoon through its early success and then just the tip of its long, slow, painful decline. It is a talking heads documentary, but the talking heads are witty and illustrated with pages from the magazine that work as a Greek chorus and are often cleverly animated. I probably started reading the Lampoon in the mid-70s - my favorite writers were Ellis Weiner and P.J. O'Rourke - but the documentary is most concerned with what it considers the magazine's glory days in the early 70s. Truthfully, the little bits of Lampoon stuff I've read by the early writers like Beard and O'Donoghue haven't really appealed to me, but the movie tells me they were amazing geniuses and perhaps they were. The story the movie tells is a fairly superficial one. It gets into some of the drama and gives some nice background, but it sticks very closely to the geniuses-working-hard-and-having-fun. The decline is portrayed as the loss of geniuses to SNL and the movies, which seems simplistic, and there's not really much attempt to put the Lampoon into a larger societal context. Which is fine, because it's an entertaining documentary, but for me it means people giving this 10 stars just have lower standards for a great documentary than I do. This is just a nice little history that fans of the magazine will enjoy. And it's probably pretty fun even if you don't know the magazine.

Luchresse Power FathNov 22, 2022

Very white, and very privileged. That describes pretty much everybody involved in this film, and therefore it can be assumed with National Lampoon. The film is somewhat entertaining but extremely self-serving. If you believe all the speakers, anyone involved with National Lampoon was one of the most intelligent, funny, and brilliant people in the world; they were are intellectual geniuses if you believe this film. The writers and creators of National Lampoon believed themselves to be very anti-establishment, and that they were. However, they were just a part of a different establishment. The inside information is somewhat interesting in the early part of the film, however even at 98 minutes it begins to drag on.

Mahi GebreNov 22, 2022

DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: The Story of the National Lampoon (2015) *** 1/2 (out of 4) If you're a fan of the National Lampoon's magazine then you're certainly going to want to check this documentary out. The rise and fall of the magazine is discussed in this highly entertaining documentary that features interviews with surviving members of the magazine as well as those who got their start in the movies like NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE, CADDYSHACK and NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION. There's some really good material to have here but the documentary works the best for those who are unfamiliar with the magazine or just don't know the complete history behind it. We get some great stories about the early days as well as how the magazine finally took off, which of course led to Hollywood calling. There's some discussion of Saturday Night Live who stole a lot of their talent as well as some of the darker stories including the death of one of the founding members. There are some great stories throughout this and there are some great interviews as well. I must say that the interview with Chevy Chase was probably my favorite because we really see a different side of him including a rather painful side as he talks about losing his best friend.

Kimora lou Nov 22, 2022

DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD : THE STORY OF NATIONAL LAMPOON (2015) ***1/2 Documentarian Douglas Triola engages with a thorough look at the 1970s landmark magazine in humor that unleashed a generation of genius lunacy with its iconoclastic writers, publishers and editors which became a media empire with its successful forays into improvised comedy, radio, TV & film with a Who's Who of Contemporary Comedy that included many of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players on SNL. Talking head segments include collaborators and fans including filmmakers John Landis, Judd Apatow, Chevy Chase and Kevin Bacon among others recalling the zany antics involved with various productions including Animal House & Vacation. For those connoisseurs of low-brow and high-brow comedy - and everything in between -this is required viewing for historical humor at its greatest.

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