11-18-2023, 08:23 AM
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National Lampoon magazine (magazines? wait, what?)
If you're like me, and of a certain age, have a warped sense of humour, and appreciate SNL and the Vacation movies, then you'll remember how incredibly groundbreaking the satire and humour of National Lampoon was back in the day. There's almost no way that stuff would fly today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...e)?wprov=sfti1
Here is a small example:
Anyway, I recently stumbled across an internet archive link of all the magazines in PDF format, and it brought back many happy memories from my early life. I thought some of you would might remember and appreciate it as much as I did. Enjoy.
https://archive.org/details/NationalLampoon_201812 (6.7GB)
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11-18-2023, 10:03 AM
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Not sure how that magazine cover would go over today, but I find it hilarious.
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11-18-2023, 11:10 AM
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Not a laughing matter - that dog is dead now.
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11-18-2023, 01:19 PM
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I have almost a whole set of these. I just collected them but never read them. There is another cover with a gun to the head of a french hooker...
Check out the spanking cover!
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11-18-2023, 01:29 PM
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The single-frame comics were the best.
A memorable one:
Two boys are standing at the front door of their home while their concerned mom looks on. The smaller boy is bruised, clothing torn.
Older boy: “Jeff landed on Go to Jail playing Monopoly and got raped in prison.”
So no, probably wouldn’t fly today.
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11-18-2023, 01:31 PM
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Even the ads in the magazine are crazy entertaining all on their own…
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11-18-2023, 06:49 PM
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I miss the days when people didn't get all uptight over a joke or exaggerated satire.
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11-19-2023, 10:35 AM
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I miss the days when people didn't get all uptight over a joke or exaggerated satire.
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Are you sure that was ever a thing?
I mean, there was always some group that was indignant about something.
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11-19-2023, 10:54 AM
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Yeah, I’m sure there were people clutching their pearls over National Lampoon back in the day. But the publishers and readers just ignored them.
The difference today isn’t that there are more pearl-clutchers. The difference is social media supercharges their outrage, and makes creators more vulnerable to loss of reputation and status.
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11-19-2023, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Yeah, I’m sure there were people clutching their pearls over National Lampoon back in the day. But the publishers and readers just ignored them.
The difference today isn’t that there are more pearl-clutchers. The difference is social media supercharges their outrage, and makes creators more vulnerable to loss of reputation and status.
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There was still some of this, but I think it was focused on radio and television at the time. Before the more subversive comedians came around, comedy was pretty milquetoast.
Maybe there was some goldilocks period in the early 70s, but eventually you had the overzealous religious people taking on Penthouse for satirizing Jerry Falwell, or calling all sorts of music Satanic.
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11-19-2023, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Yeah, I’m sure there were people clutching their pearls over National Lampoon back in the day. But the publishers and readers just ignored them.
The difference today isn’t that there are more pearl-clutchers. The difference is social media supercharges their outrage, and makes creators more vulnerable to loss of reputation and status.
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Yeah people also had thicker skin back then.
The most popular sitcom in the 70's was All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Sanford & Son were in the top 10 as well.
All 3 would never be allowed to be made today.
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11-19-2023, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Yeah people also had thicker skin back then.
The most popular sitcom in the 70's was All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Sanford & Son were in the top 10 as well.
All 3 would never be allowed to be made today.
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I dunno. That’s something people like to say, but I don’t know if that’s really true or not.
If it was funny and it resonated, it would get made. “Shameless” and “Always Sunny in Philadelphia” I think are examples. You might even say, “Breaking Bad” that idolized anti-heroes.
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11-19-2023, 07:38 PM
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^^
I guess I should have emphasized "network TV"
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11-19-2023, 07:58 PM
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^^
I guess I should have emphasized "network TV"
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I can appreciate the difference, but my point still stands. Further, Norman Lear’s sitcoms were laughing at the racist / bigots. Not holding them up as examples of good family values.
Maybe you won’t see anything like Night Court or Married with Family again, where homeless, gays, trans, mental illness, obesity, etc. were ridiculed. I don’t know if anyone would laugh at some of that stuff now, so there are different reasons why shows like that wouldn’t be made.
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11-20-2023, 07:55 AM
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I can appreciate the difference, but my point still stands. Further, Norman Lear’s sitcoms were laughing at the racist / bigots. Not holding them up as examples of good family values.
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They feature characters who aren’t entirely unsympathetic saying bigoted things. And they were sitcoms. You would not see that today.
Blazing Saddles is another example. It lampoons racism by showing racist people saying racist things. But characters will not say those things in modern comedies, even when they’re clearly the baddies.
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