That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream [Hardcover]

Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine calledThe untold story behind a revolution in American comedy.This idea of a magazines personality kept coming back to me as I read Ellin Steins charming and detail-rich new history of theStein offer detailed portraits of the people behind the magazines success in a seminal time when politics and comedy intertwined with incendiary results&. A serious treatment of a funny topic.Stein leaves no tangent unexplained and no petty grievance unaired as she traces the magazines evolution and growing fame.Steins description&is dazzling.A worthy addition to the comedy library.This rich history of humor, commerce, and backstage conflict is recounted in lively prose and admirable detail by veteran entertainment writer Ellin Stein. Buttressed by dozens of original interviews, as well as access to older ones and to all the yellowing back issues,Its not much of stretch to call this exceedingly thorough and wildly entertaining history of modern American comedy a bible on the subject. Ellin Stein goes deep and dirty on the topic&. A book that will serve as a cultural reference work for the ages. And a blast from the past to read.If you ever picked up an issue of the National Lampoon, or misspent your youth in the sixties and seventies; if you ever wondered about the origins of Saturday Night Live or, in fact, ever had any interest in the course of American humor from the late sixties onward, this is a book to read&.For one thing, the history of the