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A Futile And Stupid Gesture
''A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever'' is an American book by Josh Karp that was published in 2006. It is a history of ''National Lampoon'' magazine and one of its three founders, Doug Kenney, during the 1970s. The book was based on numerous interviews with people who contributed to the magazine, and people who performed in ''The National Lampoon Radio Hour'', and the stage show ''Lemmings''. As the book recounts, at that time the National Lampoon's performers included John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner, all of whom subsequently went on to appear on ''Saturday Night Live'' and have careers in other media, including film. Writers and artists included John Hughes, Sean Kelly, Chris Miller, P. J. O'Rourke, Tony Hendra, and Bruce McCall. The book also includes stories about the making of the movies ''Animal House'' and ''Caddyshack''. The main title of the book is a quote from ''Animal House'', part of a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Karp
Josh Karp (born October 22, 1966) is a journalist and author. He lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Susan, and their four sons. A journalist, writer and film producer. His first book, ''A Futile and Stupid Gesture,'' won best biography at both the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Midwest Book Awards in 2006. It was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Will Forte, for Netflix in 2018. He is also the author of ''Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing'' and ''Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind''. Karp served as moderator of a panel discussion on ''The Other Side of the Wind'' at the 21st annual Sedona International Film Festival in Sedona, Arizona, in February 2015. He was a producer on the Morgan Neville documentary, ''They'll Love Me When I'm Dead'', which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August 2018. Karp's writing has appeared in ''Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce McCall
Bruce McCall (born May 10, 1935) is a Canadian author and illustrator, best known for his frequent contributions to ''The New Yorker''. Life and career Born and raised in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, he was fascinated by comic books and showed an early aptitude for drawing fantastical flying machines, blimps, bulbous-nosed muscle cars and futuristic dioramas. In his memoir, ''Thin Ice'' (1997), McCall admitted that he was never good at physical activity as a boy, but could count on his mother to encourage his creativity. Bruce's father T.C. was imperious and unemotional, and left his alcoholic wife Peg without the attention she needed. Peg and the children tried to establish an attachment to him, but his stormy moods frequently pushed them aside. Without any serious technical training, McCall began his illustration career drawing cars for Ford Motor Company in Toronto in the 1950s. After several decades in advertising, he sought opportunities elsewhere in the publishing industry. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biographies About Writers
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography. An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter. History At first, biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About National Lampoon
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
''Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists who made National Lampoon Insanely Great'' by Rick Meyerowitz, is a 2010 book which was published by Abrams Books of New York. The book consists of a compilation of work by a selection of writers and artists whose work appeared in '' National Lampoon'' magazine in the 1970s, as well as introductory commentary on those people and their work, by Meyerowitz and others. The book is hardback, coffee-table sized and is profusely illustrated. A very similar title was used for the 2015 documentary film '' National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead'', for which Rick Meyerowitz designed the poster, as he also did for the 1978 film ''National Lampoon's Animal House''. Writers and artists included The book covers the work of the following people. The content of the book is as follows: * The Founders: Doug Kenney, Henry Beard * Present at the Birth: Michael O'Donoghue, George William Swift Trow, Christopher Cerf, John Weidman, Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Beard
Henry Nichols Beard (born June 7, 1945) is an American humorist, one of the founders of the magazine '' National Lampoon'' and the author of several best-selling books. Life and career Beard, a great-grandson of 14th Vice President John C. Breckinridge, was born into a well-to-do family and grew up at the Westbury Hotel on East 69th Street in Manhattan. His relationship with his parents was cool, to judge by his quip "I never saw my mother up close." He attended the Taft School, where he was a leader at the humor magazine, and he decided to become a humor writer after reading ''Catch-22''. He then went to Harvard University (from which he graduated in 1967) and joined its humor magazine, the ''Harvard Lampoon'', which circulated nationally. Much of the credit for the Lampoon's success during the mid-1960s is given to Beard and Douglas Kenney, who was in the class a year after Beard's. In 1968, Beard and Kenney wrote the successful parody ''Bored of the Rings''. Henry and Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson (; born 12 May 1983) is an Irish actor and screenwriter. He is the son of actor Brendan Gleeson, with whom he has appeared in a number of films and theatre projects. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts from Dublin Institute of Technology. During the early stages of his career, Gleeson directed and wrote several short films, garnered a Tony Award nomination in 2006 for his role in the Broadway production ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'', and had a supporting role in '' Never Let Me Go''. He became known to a wider audience for his portrayal of Bill Weasley in the last two entries of the ''Harry Potter'' film series (2010–2011), Tim Lake in '' About Time'' (2013), and Russell Allen Phillips in the fact-based war drama '' Unbroken'' (2014). Gleeson has won three IFTA Awards for his performances in ''When Harvey Met Bob'' (2010), ''Anna Karenina'' (2012), and ''Frank'' (2014). In the following years, Gleeson received widespread recognition and praise for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Forte
Orville Willis Forte IV ( ; born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. Forte is known for being a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' (2002–2010), a recurring character on the show leading to a feature film adaptation, '' MacGruber'' (2010), and a streaming television series, '' MacGruber'' (2021–present), and for creating and starring in the sitcom '' The Last Man on Earth'' (2015–2018). For the series, he received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations: two for acting and one for writing. After obtaining a history degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and becoming a financial broker like his father, Forte changed his career path to comedy and took classes with the improv group The Groundlings. He worked as a writer and producer on ''That '70s Show'' before joining ''Saturday Night Live''. Forte played various roles in comedy films before starring in the drama film ''Nebraska'' (2013). He has provided voice-work for ''Cloud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aboud
John Aboud III (born March 7, 1973) is an American writer and comedian. With Michael Colton, he was a regular commentator on ''Best Week Ever'' and other VH1 shows. From 2000 to 2003, the two founded Modern Humorist, a parody website based in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to the creation of Modern Humorist, Aboud worked as a freelance writer for magazines and Web sites. In 1996, he was among the first copywriters at Grey Advertising's online division. Early life and education He graduated from Douglas S. Freeman High School in suburban Richmond, Virginia. Aboud graduated from Harvard University in 1995. He was an editor of the ''Harvard Lampoon'' and served as president in 1994. Personal life In May 2000 Aboud married Molly Bridget Confer, the deputy editor of Teen People Online. Filmography Movies References External links Colton & Aboud homepageModern Humorist* Interview in the CrimsonScene Missing Magazine Interviews John Aboud 1973 births Living people People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Colton
Michael Colton (born 1975) is an American screenwriter and former journalist. With writing partner John Aboud, he was a regular commentator on ''Best Week Ever'' and other VH1 shows, including '' I Love the '80s''. Personal life Colton attended Newton North High School in Massachusetts, where he wrote a humor column for the student newspaper. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was an editor at both the ''Harvard Lampoon'' and ''The Harvard Crimson''. He married lawyer and Harvard alum Carla Pereira on May 30, 2004. Career Colton has co-written the films ''A Futile and Stupid Gesture'', ''Penguins of Madagascar'' and '' The Comebacks''. He has also co-produced the television series ''Close Enough'' and '' Zoolander: Super Model'' and written for '' Childrens Hospital'' and '' Leverage''. In the late 1990s, Colton was a journalist at ''The Washington Post''. He has also written for ''The New York Times Magazine'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Boston Globe'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Futile And Stupid Gesture (film)
''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''. ''A Futile and Stupid Gesture'' had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2018, and was released on January 26, 2018, by Netflix. Plot The film's timeline stretches from 1964 to 1980. The film opens with Douglas Kenney and his classmate Henry Beard celebrating the release of their book, ''Bored of the Rings'', with the ''Harvard Lampoon'' staff. They graduate from Harvard and Kenney convinces Beard not to go to law school but instead publish a monthly magazine: the ''National Lampoon''. Though Kenney is the magazine's main creative voice, there would be no magazine without the guidance of Beard. Kenney becomes the comedy writer and Beard the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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