National Lampoon (magazine)

National Lampoon was an American satirical magazine that was first published in 1970. From 1978 onwards, Comedies were rotated under the name, including I think, ' Animal House and The Lampoon.

History

The journal has been published since 1969 by Harvard students Douglas Kenney, Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman under the name Harvard Lampoon at the university. The mid-1970s reached the popularity of the magazine its peak, the October 1974 edition had a circulation of over one million copies. As illustrators, among others, Edward Gorey, Frank Frazetta, Frank Springer and Boris Vallejo worked.

Between 1973 and 1974 it was under the name of The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a radio show in which appeared, among others, John Belushi, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase. Excerpts from these shows are available on CD. At the same time, Belushi, Chase and Christopher Guest played in the off- Broadway production National Lampoon's Lemmings, which was performed until 1974 in the Village Gate Theatre in New York City.

1975 sold the three founders of their shares. The first feature film released under the brand name I think ' Animal House was founded in 1978 as one of the most successful comedies of its time and was a breakthrough for film director John Landis. During the 1980s there were still under the name of successful feature films (help European Vacation and Christmas Vacation very), the sales of the magazine, however, declined resistant. In 1989 it was taken over by actor Tim Matheson, he pushed it but after two years again. It was subsequently acquired by J2 Communications, but they were mainly interested in licensing the brand name for film productions. Partly a magazine is only placed on the market in the year 1998 and it was finally stopped. In 2002, the brand name was sold again and since then is a company called National Lampoon Inc.