National Lampoon Quotes

• Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

  Warren Buffett

  Vacation, Giving, Mental Toughness

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• Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Vacation, Giving

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

  Beverly D'Angelo

  Christmas, Vacation, Misery

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• I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

  Kato

  Development, Comedy

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• I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

  Bill Murray

  Mistake, Cities, Looks

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• Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.

  Bill Murray

  Groundhog Day, Stripes, Together

  "Harold Ramis, 'Ghostbusters' actor, 'Groundhog Day' director dies at 69" by Patricia Reaney, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2014.

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• You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, College, Mad

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Night, People, Saturday

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Editors, Doe, Causes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Editors, Careers, Magazines

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid, coming across National Lampoon Magazine, that was a big thing. I suddenly felt like there were other people that felt the way I did, and there was a way of expressing and communicating this worldview.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Kids, Views, People

  "Interview: Charlie Kaufman is Animated About 'Anomalisa'". Interview with Patrick McD, www.hollywoodchicago.com. January 7, 2016.

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• I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

  Drew Carey

  Vacation, Laughing, Stories

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

  Ricky Van Veen

  Magazines, Lost, Annuals

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• I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Meditation, Labels, Hopeless

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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