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Mar 1, 2014 · Kenney, one of the founders of National Lampoon, also wrote Caddyshack (directed by Ramis), but he died in August 1980 at 33, when he fell off a cliff in Hawaii. The police ruled the death ...
- Robert Sam Anson
Oct 1, 1981 · Doug Kenney's brilliance was his humor, and everything it touched turned to gold. The National Lampoon, which he co-founded, became one of the biggest success stories in publishing. The...
- Robert Sam Anson
Jan 26, 2018 · It’s time for a primer for Netflix’s ‘A Futile and Stupid Gesture,’ a biopic of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney based on the book by Josh Karp.
- City Editor, New York Magazine
Doug, played by comedian Will Forte, was the cofounder of National Lampoon magazine and was responsible for changing the trajectory of humor on the big screen.
After co-founding Harvard and National Lampoon-- he brought a specific dark and twisted satire that gave comedy, and brought himself to, a dangerous edge. Today on Death in Entertain ...more....
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Kenney had originally collaborated at Harvard with friend, Henry Beard, and founded the National Lampoon, where the two pooled their talents and created a radical new humor magazine. Humor that was sophomoric, rebellious, off-color, vulgar and just plain laceratingly funny.
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Douglas Kenney. American comedy writer (1946–1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Douglas Clark Francis Kenney (December 10, 1946 – August 27, 1980) was an American comedy writer of magazine, novels, radio, TV and film, who co-founded the magazine National Lampoon in 1970.
