Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
Like many writers, I was significantly inspired by National Lampoon, a humor magazine that existed from 1970 to 1998 and spiraled into radio, books, records, live theater, and film. It defined comedy for the better part of two decades, and even today, some of its articles rank as the most sharply written prose I've ever read. Unfortunately, that's not what you'll get from Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon, a documentary on the magazine's meteoric rise and fall. What you get is interesting... it's just not enough.