Drunk, stoned, brilliant Dead: National Lampoon

University of Oregon

Oregon recreates famous Animal House scene

Otis Day showed up.

Fascinating show. I had no idea how popular and influential National Lampoon was at one time. The connection between the Groundlings and SNL was also interesting.

I had a copy of National Lampoon's High School Yearbook. Priceless if I could find it.

One of the pictures in the book showed a student laying on the track field with a javelin in his back. Just your everyday events in high school.

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It was the only adult humor available.

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Plus this guy...Dolomite.....

By his own account, he was working at a record store in Hollywood in 1970 when he began hearing obscene stories of "Dolemite" recounted by a local man named Rico. Moore began recording the stories, and assumed the role of "Dolemite" in his club act and on recordings.[9] In 1970–71 he recorded three albums of material, Eat Out More Often, This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens, where "with jazz and R&B musicians playing in the background, [Moore] would recite raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes that often had to do with pimps, prostitutes, players, and hustlers."[10]

Moore was influenced by more mainstream comedians such as Red Foxx and Richard Pryor, as well as by traditions such as the Dozens. The recordings were usually made in Moore's own house, with friends in attendance to give a party atmosphere. The album covers and contents were often too racy to be put on display in record stores,[9] but the records became popular through word of mouth and were highly successful in disadvantaged black American communities,[1] where his "warped wit and anti-establishment outlook" were embraced.[4]