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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great Hardcover – September 1, 2010

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From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. Long before there was The Onion and Comedy Central news shows, there was the National Lampoon, setting the bar in comedy impossibly high!

A very similar title, differing only in the subtitle, was used for the 2015 documentary film, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon, for which Rick Meyerowitz designed the poster, as he also did for the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House.

Praise for the documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015):

This film looks longingly back at the 1970s when a smart, tasteless joke could make you laugh out loud without worrying about hurting someone’s feelings or being attacked on social media.
—The New York Times

It all looks like more fun than you or I will ever have in our lives, and Chevy Chase and Ivan Reitman are on hand to tell some of the stories.
—Hollywood Reporter

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320 pages
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English
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Abrams
Publication date

September 1, 2010
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9.5 x 1.25 x 12 inches
ISBN-10

0810988488
ISBN-13

978-0810988484
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"The other night I started laughing so hard I had to leave the room . . . And then I realized that I hadn't laughed so hard in 35 years, since I was a teenager, reading National Lampoon." (The Wall Street Journal)

"If you grew up with the Lampoon, this book is a trip down memory lane like no other; if not, it will demonstrate that the much maligned 70s could produce humor that has never been surpassed." (Vanity Fair)

"Meyerowitz delivers more than he promises [in his introduction]. The alumni reminiscences he commissioned, taken together, paint a vivid picture of a tight-knit family of twentysomething humorists at the dawn of their careers." (Newsweek)

"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a coffee-table book-big, colorful, and fun to flip through. But it also serves as an important reminder: Where would American humor be without the National Lampoon?" (The New Yorker)

"With page after page of exquisitely reproduced articles and illustrations, DSBD is a satiric cornucopia . . .You're gonna need a bigger stocking for this one!" (NationalEnquirer.com)

About the Author

Rick Meyerowitz was a prolific contributor to the National Lampoon for 15 years, during which time he created the iconic Animal House movie poster. With Maira Kalman, he made the “New Yorkistan” cover of the New Yorker, the bestselling cover in that magazine’s history. He lives in New York City.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams; 1st edition (September 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810988488
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810988484
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.21 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.5 x 1.25 x 12 inches

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Derek McCumber

Excellent collection or irreverant art - somewhat lacking in the articles department

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2018

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This isn't a best of collection (as the author states), but it still manages to be a pretty decent one - and the ONLY one currently on the market - despite missing most of the best articles from NL's 1970-1974 heyday. If you have a strong appreciation for the art of the magazine, which you should as it is excellent, it makes for a wonderful coffee table book, whether you want to impress your intellectual friends, make your death-obsessed friends laugh, or shock the hell out of the PC crowd. I paid $10 for a used copy, which is an absolutely fabulous deal.

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Rick Ackerman

Fans of Natlamp in Its Heyday Will LOVE This Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016

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If you enjoyed National Lampoon in its 1970s heyday, you'll love this book. It's missing a couple of my favorite regular features, including Michael O'Donoghue's 'Underwear for the Deaf' and Gerry Sussman's 'My Meter Is Running: Tales of Bernie X'. But the darkly fascinating biographical notes on NatLamp's brilliantly insane cast of characters more than makes up for it. Did Doug Kenney jump? Did O'Donoghue really walk out -- forever -- just because someone insulted his girlfriend? This book tells all and more, dwelling appropriately on the sick and the salacious.

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Mr. Hinty

Quite a prize

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2014

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A gorgeous book, jam packed with remembrances and old NatLamp pages. My only quibble -- with which many will not agree -- was that I thought there was TOO MUCH old NatLamp material in there. But that's only because I have all but a few of the magazines and the DVD with all of them, and I've read them many times over the years. So I would have liked more photos from inside the office, more essays about the people there, the thought process, etc. There are other books with more of that though. This book -- in shiny, beautiful color -- will make your coffee table sing (though the song will most likely be obscene).

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Chris Landsberg

It still makes me laugh

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2010

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I spent a good portion of the 1970s in my room listening to music and reading National Lampoon. During its prime years it was probably the funniest magazine that ever existed - at least to my teenage mind. I still have a pile of them in storage, including the 1964 Yearbook, the 199th Birthday Book, and The Very Large Book of Comical Funnies. Pure gold! This book is great. Rick Meyerowitz gives us a generous selection of the magazine's greatest work. He also includes reminiscences about the writers and artists who made it all possible. In 1976 I thought these guys had the greatest job on earth. I was probably right.

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Jim Kasmir

WONDERFUL! BRILLIANT! AT LAST!

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2010

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This brought back a lot of great memories and new laughs. If you are too young to remember the greatness that was the National Lampoon magazine then you definitely need to get this book. And if you do remember, then you don't need me to tell you that you want this book. It's not only a collection of some of the writings and drawings from the magazine; it's also a close look at the people who created this influential publication. The chapter on the cartoonist Rodriguez was worth the price of the book alone for me. It also contained a photo of the pen he used to create his wonderfully warped cartoons. I must have stared at that photo for fifteen straight minutes! I admit that is pretty geeky, but Rodriguez was THE cartoonist I always wanted to draw like-- and still do. Seeing the actual photo of Rodriguez himself was startling to me. I never knew what he looked like until I got this book, but I never imagined he looked like THAT!
My older brother and sister subscribed to the magazine when I was a kid and I would secretly read it while they were out of the house. Then my mom finally looked at a copy and from then on began tossing them straight from the mailbox into the trash without telling anybody. So some of the stuff in the book I had never seen before, thanks to mom!
There has never been another publication like the Lampoon, Get the book and relive its history or discover for the first time what made it so wonderful.

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BMG

Great book for a coffee table read

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2015

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"Brilliant" belongs in the title. It's a great historic text about a great magazine during a period of cultural freedoms; freedoms of a subculture of some of the most creative and comedic people on the planet both here and gone. The illustrations of Meyerowitz are stunning. A terrific coffee table book; providing you have a strong coffee table. It's big and bold and worthy of a read or two, or three, or four.....

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Paul Beauchemin

great stories of a much different generation- with a good ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2017

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great stories of a much different generation- with a good bunch of actual samples from National lampoon in the 70's. Good book, great service.

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betsycrain

Perfect coffee table book

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018

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Perfect coffee table book if you are a National Lampoon fan. Highly recommend.

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Steve in Ottawa

Big, heavy and funny!

Reviewed in Canada on December 12, 2015

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This is a wonderful book for anyone who enjoys brilliant, quirky writing. Of course, if you are actually old enough to remember the original National Lampoon, as I am, this is even better.
While not every section is equally good, the best will have the reader in stitches.

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