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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subversive and electrifying beginnings, to rebirth as an unlikely Hollywood heavyweight, and beyond. A humour empire like no other, the impact of the magazines irreverent, often shocking, sensibility was nothing short of seismic: this is an institution whose (drunk stoned brilliant) alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture. Both insanely great and breathtakingly innovative, The National Lampoon created the foundation of modern comic sensibility by setting the bar in comedy impossibly high.

2015 |1h 33m |  History, Comedy, Documentary

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John Belushi

Self / Actor (archive footage)

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John Candy

Self / Actor (archive footage)

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Chevy Chase

Self / Actor

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Bill Murray

Self / Actor

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Gilda Radner

Self / Actress (archive footage)

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John Goodman

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Beverly D'Angelo

Self / Actress

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Kevin Bacon

Self / Actor

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Richard Belzer

Self / Actor / Producer

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Christopher Guest

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Fred Gwynne

Self / Actor (archive footage)

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Tim Matheson

Self / Actor / Director / Producer

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Meat Loaf

Self (archive footage)

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Billy Bob Thornton

Self / Actor / Director

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Richard Nixon

Self / Former President USA (archive footage)

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John Lennon

Self (archive footage)

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Yoko Ono

Self (archive footage)

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Stevie Wonder

Self (archive footage)

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George Plimpton

Self / Actor (archive footage)

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Tony Hendra

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Douglas Kenney

Self (archival footage)

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