{"product_id":"9780810988484","title":"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom its first issue in April, 1970, the \u003ci\u003eNational Lampoon \u003c\/i\u003eblazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create \u003ci\u003eDrunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, \u003c\/i\u003eformer \u003ci\u003eLampoon \u003c\/i\u003eillustrator 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: \u003ci\u003eAnimal House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaddyshack\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhostbusters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSCTV\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpinal Tap\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Living Color\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRen \u0026amp; Stimpy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/i\u003e—even \u003ci\u003eSesame Street \u003c\/i\u003ecounts a few Lampooners among its ranks. Long before there was \u003ci\u003eThe Onion \u003c\/i\u003eand Comedy Central news shows, there was the \u003ci\u003eNational Lampoon, \u003c\/i\u003esetting the bar in comedy impossibly high!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA very similar title, differing only in the subtitle, was used for the 2015 documentary film, \u003ci\u003eDrunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon\u003c\/i\u003e, for which Rick Meyerowitz designed the poster, as he also did for the 1978 film \u003ci\u003eNational Lampoon's Animal House\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the documentary \u003ci\u003eDrunk Stoned Brilliant Dead \u003c\/i\u003e(2015):\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e —The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e —Hollywood Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABRAMS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300764827888,"sku":"9780810988484","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780810988484_p0.jpg?v=1763742731","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780810988484","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}