Reprints and reminiscences from the magazine's first decade: "Fun to flip through... Where would American humor be without the National Lampoon?" -- The New Yorker

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. This is the story of a band of young talents who "irrevocably rewrote the landscape of American humor" (Publishers Weekly).

"A vivid picture of a tight-knit family of twentysomething humorists at the dawn of their careers." -- Newsweek

"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

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