That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream Audiobook (Free)

The untold storybehind a revolution in American comedy

Labor Time, 1969. Two latest college graduates proceed to NewYork to edit a new magazine known as theNational Lampoon. More than the next 10 years, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney,along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists such as for example Michael O’Donoghueand P. J. O’Rourke, popularized a good, caustic, ironic brand of humor thathas become the dominant voice of American humor.

Ranging from sophisticated political satire to broadraunchy jokes, the about That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream National Lampoonintroduced iconoclasm towards the mainstream, selling millions of copies to anaudience both large and devoted. Its excursions into concert events, records, andradio helped form the anarchic earthiness of John Belushi, the suave slapstickof Chevy Run after, and the deadpan wit of Costs Murray and brought them togetherwith additional talents such as Harold Ramis, Christopher Visitor, and Gilda Radner. Anew era of humorists emerged in the crucible from the Lampoon tohelp create Saturday Night Live as well as the influential film Animal Home,among a great many other notable humor landmarks.

Journalist Ellin Stein, an observer from the scene since the early 1970s,draws on a wealth of uncovering firsthand interviews with the architects andimpresarios of the comedy explosion to offer crucial insight into a raucous culturaltransformation that even now echoes today. Filled with insider tales and setagainst the roiling political and cultural landscaping from the 1970s, That’sNot Funny, That’s Sick will go behind the jokes to see the fights, theparties, the collaborations-and the competition-among this fraternity of theself-consciously disenchanted. Years later, their brand of subversive humorthat provokes, offends, and often illuminates is as relevant and required asever.