Directed By: David Wain
Written By: John Abound & Michael Colton
Based On The Book By: Josh Karp
Cinematography By: David Atkinson
Editor: David Egan, Jamie Gross & Robert Nassau
Cast: Martin Mull, Will Forte, Joel McHale, Camille Guaty, Domnhall Gleeson, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Lennon, Mark Metcalfe, Emmy Rossum, Max Greenfield, Annette O’Toole, Harry Groener, Carla Gallo, Rick Overton, David Krumholtz, Mitch Hurwitz, Matt lucas, Lonny Ross, Joe Lo Truglio, Finn Wittrock, Rich Sommer
An old version of humorist Douglas Kenney tells the story of how he and Henry Beard parleyed their success in their campus magazine, Harvard Lampoon, into the commercial magazine, National Lampoon. Drawing upon their checkered lives and an aggressively puckish sense of humor, the pair created a publication that would redefine American comedy with outrageous drollery that grabbed the zeitgeist of the decade that expanded across various media. Unfortunately, for all his success, Doug Kenney with his overhanging insecurities, ego and irresponsible appetites began to consume him until he alienates everyone who ever cared and supported him even as they imitated him. In the end, this iconoclastic funnyman would come to a tragedy that comes when your comedy doesn't have enough distance.
