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Doug Kenney was one of a few people who re-created comedy at the end of the 1960s.
Two examples of “Foto Funnies”: A not particularly sexist one, and a second (seen if you click the first one) that is much more typical, and much more NSFW.
But if you were hip enough toget it,it was taboo-breaking in the best possible ways.
When it was good, it was astounding.
That was equally true of the relentless sexism in its pages.
Two examples of “Foto Funnies”: A not particularly sexist one, and a second (seen if you click the first one) that is much more typical, and much more NSFW.
In fact, there were alotof jokes about breasts in and around theNational Lampoon.
Which brings us toFoto Funnies,the magazinesmonthly comic strip.
It was a one-page example offumetti,using photographs with added speech balloons instead of drawings.
(A Foto Funnies treatment is used as a narrative equipment in the filmA Futile and Stupid Gesture.)
So did Danielle, a three-time winner of the Miss New York City Big Breasts Contest.
Danielle had been brought to the editors attention byMichael ODonoghue,one of the magazines first writers.
(It was an extended napalmed-infant joke.)
Theres a great biography of him calledMr.Mike,by Dennis Perrin.
If theres a central figure in the film besides Doug Kenney, its his Harvard classmate andNational Lampoonco-founderHenry Beard.
After he and Kenney took a buyout, Beard pretty nearly disappeared for a few years.
The dog heard the click, flicked its eyes, and created an image for the ages.
But the thing for which the Lampoon is likely to be most widely remembered is not the magazine.
They bought the magazine; now they have to keep the dog alive.
