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August 30, 2011
329. I have a vague memory of a NatLamp story where a kid's birthday party turns sexual due to clown (or other entertainer) giving the kids never-named-but-obviously cocaine, etc. Did this really exist, if it did was it from NatLamp, or is it just an artifact of my own sick mind?
That would be a story by Chris Miller from the July 1975 (X-Rated 3-D Entertainment) issue called "Magic Show". Except it wasn't a clown, but a magician by the name of "Dr. Fun".
Posted August 30, 2011, 09:19 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
328. I remember a story written by P.J. O'Rourke called "Desperate Fun" and I think it was published in National Lampoon.
Actually, it was written by Tod Carroll. It appeared in the December 1980 (Fun Takes a Holiday) issue.
Posted August 30, 2011, 04:57 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
Not sure what to make of this, but National Lampoon has been selected for The American Project with a one-page write up. Judging by the photos, it's all about the movies, but the magazine, radio show and stage shows are mentioned as well.
Posted August 30, 2011, 04:30 PM in News.
327. I'm trying to locate the issue of "National Lampoon" that featured a "Trots and Bonnie" cartoon where Bonnie(?) is trying to photograph a young man nude. When he becomes aroused, her attempts to "discourage" him lead to the predictable result.
The title is "Soft Core". The story first appeared in the March 1976 (In Like a Lion) issue and was reprinted in 'The Gentleman's Bathroom Companion II'. (Thanks to Carol and Dell for answering this question.)
Posted August 30, 2011, 04:27 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)
326. I recall a cartoon circa 70s or 80s, P.C. Vey maybe, of a guy at a bar with a miniature crane and a house of cards saying “you think I’m not playing with a full deck, but they’re all here; no the problem is that I have a screw loose” or words to that effect.
Huh. Can't find it. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 30, 2011, 04:23 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
325. I remember a single page image of a blonde sitting on the asphalt of a drive-in movie. All the cars are gone and it looks like somebody 'took her there' and just left her. It may have been in the issue with a small three segment comic strip about 'Front seat orgasm, the cause of many highway accidents.' Do you know which issue this was in?
Pretty sure you're thinking of the cover of one of the special issues, National Lampoon Best of #5 "Sloppy Seconds", which reprinted articles from regular issues from 1973 and 1974. The highway accident bit is from the first article in the issue ("Split Beaver Section" from February 1974).
Posted August 30, 2011, 04:15 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
324. Wasn't there once a story titled something like "once gods roamed this place"? it had an illustration of a large football player and other figures walking down a street, larger than life...
Doesn't ring a bell for me. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 30, 2011, 04:01 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
323. Had dinner with a cousin tonight and he was telling me about an issue of National Lampoon that came out in 1979 -- it was a look back to the 80's. In one part there was an interview with a dolphin -- comic strip. This is all I know about the issue. Does it sound familiar? Do you know what issue it is?
It was produced by a bunch of Lampoon writers and artists (including some who had left the magazine), but it wasn't published by National Lampoon. The book was called "The '80s: A Look Back". It was published by Workman Publishing. The main writers were Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf, and Peter Ebling. Michael Gross, NL's original art director, was also involved, as were some regular NL artists, such as Rick Meyerowitz.
Posted August 30, 2011, 03:45 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
322. I'm trying to find out where this Howard Chaykin illustration was used. I've looked through back issues, but can't find it anywhere.
I looks very familiar, but I don't know where I've seen it before. A similar illustration, possibly by Chaykin, appears in a "house" ad in the June 1975, promoting the July 1975 (3-D) issue. The concept is the same, but it's a one-eyed guy (and he's not wearing a skimpy outfit). I wonder if perhaps this art was used in ads placed in other magazines (e.g., Rolling Stone) to promote the 3-D issue? That may be where I remember it from. I checked several issues back in NL, thinking it might be in another house ad, and didn't see it.
If anyone else can solve this mystery, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 30, 2011, 12:55 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
August 4, 2011
321. I remember an article about those terrible people in your life, bullies, terrible bosses, senseless assholes, people who made your life miserable. And how these awful people were going to GET theirs. In extreme old age. Heart attacks in their sleep, similar deaths. No retribution. So and so would die horrible at 97 in their sleep from a massive stroke, and never wake up. I'm wondering if it might be the April 1980 VENGEANCE issue?
Yep, that's the issue. The article was called "Vengeance is His" by P.J. O'Rourke.
Posted August 4, 2011, 03:15 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
320. In which issue does the strip Timberland Tales conclude with Maurice ripping a nasty fart (Broomm Fraaap Breeet). As Nell swoons in the mounty's arms he exclaims "Good God Maurice! Have you been eating snails again?" If I remember correctly, they are all at Nell's cabin to celebrate Christmas. I use that line anytime someone farts in my presence.
That strip appeared in the June 1977 (I got my job through the...) issue in the Funny Pages section.
Posted August 4, 2011, 01:36 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
August 3, 2011
319. Looking for a cartoon story about Mr. T on crack. Gets all skinny and sickly.
Cartoon Carol says: "The O-Team: Mr. T in Dustbusters" ran in the May '85 (Celebrity Roast) issue. Written by Tony Kisch, with great art by Adam Kubert. (The previous O-Team comic, "Mr. T in G Marks The Spot" appeared in the January '85 (Good Clean Sex) issue.) Thanks, Carol!
Posted August 3, 2011, 10:51 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)
318. I'm looking for an article called Planet of the Naked Women (where women act like men and men act like naked women).
"Planet of the Naked Women", by P.J. O'Rourke, appeared in the April 1979 (April Fool) issue.
Posted August 3, 2011, 10:49 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
317. Lampoon published a sexual checklist once--twins; amputee; etc.
The Feb. '79 (Heterosexuality) issue ran a 3-page "Men's Lifetime Heterosexual Score Sheet". (Thanks to Carol once again for the answer. See the Comments link for more.)
Posted August 3, 2011, 10:41 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
316. I'm looking for a cartoon that I believe was done by Rodrigues in National Lampoon. It was a blind man begging and holding a vacuum cleaner by the cord. His sign read: I'm blind and my dog has asthma. I still laugh out loud when I think of it.
It sounds familiar, but it's really hard for me to track down cartoons. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 3, 2011, 10:38 PM in Answers. | Comments (1)
315. I remember reading a cartoon in NatLamp. Long ago. It depicted a couple of guys dressed in black SS looking uniforms, sitting at a table and having a few drinks. The caption read something like “So, Dave, how do you like being a fascist?” I ‘m looking for the author (it might have been Rodrigues), and if possible, the date of the issue it was in (I don’t want to have to thumb through all of my back issues…). Does this ring a bell?
February 1972 (Crime) issue, page 15, a cartoon by Gahan Wilson. (Thanks to Marcel for the answer.)
Posted August 3, 2011, 10:31 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)
314. I remember seeing in a National Lampoon Magazine in the 70s a fake ad like something you’d see in an old magazine that went something like “Become a Certified Street Light Inspector” by taking a mail order or vocational school course that I thought was interesting and funny. Do you know anything about that? Also interested in info in a fake advertising spread or article about exaggerated 50s-type cars and/or ocean liners whose scale was so big it dwarfed the passengers.
The streetlight inspector ad was in the "Popular Workbench" magazine parody, by Bruce McCall, from the July 1974 (Modern Times) issue. McCall also did the other articles you describe (the "Bulgemobile" series of car brochure parodies and the "R.M.S. Tyrannic" brochure parody respectively). You can find all these articles and more in his book "Zany Afternoons", which was published in the early '80s. It's out of print, but probably not to hard to find used, at Amazon for example.
Posted August 3, 2011, 10:21 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
313. There was a photo of a huge biker with an axe handle in one hand. The caption read “Our collection department..” I believe it was an ad for the magazine. Any idea on which issue or if the photo is available?
That doesn't quite sound like the Lampoon to me, but could be. I don't remember it, in any case. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 3, 2011, 10:01 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
312. I'm trying to find a story that appeared in an issue in the late 70's or early 80's. The plot was around a pair of high school boys who had a foreign exchange student in their biology class who would engage in some extracurricular activity in the back of the classroom. Also when one of the boys was home alone pleasuring himself he caused his light bulb to explode.
Sorry, I don't know. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 3, 2011, 09:41 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)
311. When I was a teenager, late seventies, I read a short story in National Lampoon with a title something like "my life as a practical joker" I would love to find it again to read. Do you know where I can find this?
That would be "My Life of Practical Joking" by Tod Carroll from the October 1979 (Comedy) issue.
Posted August 3, 2011, 09:39 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
310. I am trying to find a photograph that accompanied an article. Simply, the photo is someone about to slam down the phone. More accurately the person in the image is fully extended, arm well above the head. The phone cord extending below the feet was my first clue he is hovering above the desk, about to really slam the phone.
I'm drawing a blank on that one. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 3, 2011, 09:33 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
309. I'm looking for a consumer ad for Fukitol resembling Geritol.
The "Fukital" ad was in the "laughtHER" magazine piece in the October 1979 (Comedy) issue.
Posted August 3, 2011, 09:17 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
308. I am inquiring to find a piece that resembled a physicians drug reference insert for "Reciprocal Toxin" or something like that.
From Cartoon Carol: It was an ad for Reprisol (Toxin), and it appeared in COMA, a parody medical journal that ran in the May '75 (Medicine) issue. Other miracle drugs promoted in COMA were Placebin (no medical effect at all, but acceptable to hypochondriacs) and Terminalin ("for cerebral infusion where euthanasia is indicated"; it's a pill bottle full of bullets). Thanks, Carol!
Posted August 3, 2011, 09:13 PM in Answers. | Comments (4)
307. I remember a tale about a preacher who got spontaneous hardons and beat them in a book with a mallet to get them to go down.
Sounds sort of familiar, but I can't place it. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 3, 2011, 09:01 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
306. Which Lampoon issue had the quip or tale or whatever about being a prisoner on a cuban homo farm?
"Cuban Homo Farm", by Gerald Sussman and Sean Kelly, appeared in the October 1975 (Collector's Issue).
Posted August 3, 2011, 08:59 PM in Answers. | Comments (1)
305. I've often wondered about Gracie Whitebread. Well, not THAT often, really, no really! Anyway, I cannot find anything of substance related to her on the Internet. Do you know if she played much of a role on the radio show? Have you heard what became of her?
She did appear on a number of short bits on the Radio Hour, but I don't really know anything else about her. I've always thought that it might be a pseudonym--the name seems a bit unlikely for a real name. If anyone knows any more about who she was, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 3, 2011, 08:51 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
304. There was a pieced called "Inner City Science Fair" or similar... Maybe it was just a component of the National Science Fair bit. Entries included: "The Effects of Drugs on Me" and "What I Would Do if They Gave Me the Space Shuttle" (or similar). I remember for the latter, the entrant opened with, "First, I would be surprised." I still use that line frequently!
"Highlights of the Inner City Science Fair", by Michael Reiss and Al Jean, appeared in the August 1983 (E.T. and John Glenn: Coincidence?) issue. (Thanks to Cartoon Carol in Answer #244 for help with this question.)
Posted August 3, 2011, 08:40 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
303. I recall seeing a TV Guide-type ad parody for a game show called (either) "Let's Take a Dump" or "Let's Take a Shit" - with an actual picture of "Let's Make a Deal" host Monty Hall.
Dawn sez: The TV Guide parody was a 16-page insert in the April '77 (Ripping The Lid Off TV) issue. Page 12 of the insert has an ad for three game shows; 'Let's Take a Shit'; 'The Dong Show'; and 'The Snatch Game'. Don't go looking for it on the "complete" (ha ha) Poon DVD; they didn't include that section. Thanks, Dawn!
Posted August 3, 2011, 08:30 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)
302. They had a story about a man who hated the 10 year old boy next store. The kid annoyed him greatly. He was in the yard and the boy threw a football over the fence. He was going to yell at the boy, but when he was looking at him, the boy seemed to vibrate or loose sharpness for a second. The boy comes back into focus and looks at him and says’ “Hi Frank” then hear’s his mother calling and says “Mom “ as if he had not seen her for a long time. He runs to the house. The man picks up the football, which is a personal time machine and is transported back to when he was 10 years old.
"They Do Things Differently There", by Chris Miller, in the June '87 (Sex and Other Unusual Practices) issue. More info in the Comments link. (Special thanks to Poison Microchip for the answer.)
Posted August 3, 2011, 08:25 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
301. There was a several page long comic about a Nazi Hunter - but unlike the real Nazi hunters, this one was a nazi who hunted down Jews who had served at concentration camps. What/when/why?
It was the "Gunnar Von Weissen: Jew Hunter" comic from the April 1980 (Vengeance) issue.
Posted August 3, 2011, 08:14 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
300. I seek the name/artist & issue(s) of NL for the following cartoon: I believe it was titled "Mr. President," but that's a guess. It was about a U.S. President who was a civil service employee. He lived in a walk-up apartment with his mother. He had to borrow extra chairs from the neighbors to hold cabinet meetings. He had to take a cab to the Pentagon to deal with international crises. I loved it, circa early 1970's.
It was the of "Of The People" comic strip that ran in The Funny Pages in the early '80s, drawn by S. Harris. (More info in the Comments link. Thanks to Mrs. President for providing the answer!)
Posted August 3, 2011, 08:01 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)