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This ultimate biography of Country wide Lampoon and its cofounder Doug Kenney offers the first complete record of the immensely popular mag and its excellent and eccentric individuals. Counting on wonderful experiences about the humor scene in New York City in the 1970s and Country wide Lampoon's place at the guts of it, publisher Josh Karp chronicles how the magazine spawned a favorite radio show and two long-running theatrical productions that helped launch the opportunities of John Belushi, Costs Murray, Chevy Run after, and Gilda Radner which went on to inspire Saturday Nighttime Live. That record along with interviews conducted with more than 130 people linked to Kenney and the mag - including Chevy Run after, John Hughes, P. J. O'Rourke, Tony Hendra, Sean Kelly, Chris Miller, and Bruce McCall - and behind-the-scenes experiences about the making of Pet animal House and Caddyshack help to fully capture the nostalgia, laughter, and popular culture that Country wide Lampoon still inspires.
