Ellin Stein
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The untold story behind a revolution in American comedy
Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called the National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists such as Michael O'Donoghue and P. J. O'Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant voice of American comedy.
Ranging from sophisticated
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