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The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor |  | Creator: Michael O'Donoghue
Publisher: National Lampoon
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 408035
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 1590710428
Dewey Decimal Number: 817.008
EAN: 9781590710425
ASIN: 1590710428
Publication Date: May 31, 2005
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Product Description
The fifth title in the National Lampoon classic library, The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor returns with the madness that only Michael O’Donoghue, P.J. O’Rourke, Terry Southern, Anne Beatts, Doug Kenney and Brian McConnachie could have possibly created.
Includes a pullout, 4-color, National Lampoon World Map and artwork from Edward Gorey, Bruce McCall and Rick Meyerwitz
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 Thank goodness they cut down trees for this! August 29, 2005
Robin Benson
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
At last a timely reprint (though not quite of the highest quality) of this brilliant 1973 Lampoon special. The original was a hardback book and the contents (not reprinted from the magazine) ran in alphabetical order from Aa, Antique plastics to Zz, Zen lizard. You don't need me to tell you that this is seriously funny stuff, beautifully written under the editorship of Michael O'Donoghue and stunningly designed by David Kaestle.
Some of the goodies I've enjoyed include ten pages of 'Battling Buses of World War II', six pages of the comic 'Deco Desperados', designed in the Art Deco/Moderne style (in my 1973 edition this has a fifth color of silver ink as an extra graphic element) an eight page 'The Name-On-Request Correspondence School of Home Study's Official 747 'Big Rig' Pilot's Training Course in Aviation', which includes an official diploma 'suitable for framing', six pages of a very wicked parody of the famous 'Family of Man' photo book, eleven page comic 'Cowgirls of War', drawn by Russ Heath in his best bondage style and plenty more articles, fiction, cartoons and comics.
Between all these feature pages there are contributions from all the Lampoon regulars who made the magazine the hippest pages around in the Seventies and Eighties.
 Classic Lampoon February 15, 2010
John A. Painting (NYC)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
i bought this specifically for the 'RIGGING OF A SHIP'.
lost this item years ago.VERY FUNNY!
 Do not waste your money September 4, 2010
tiny tim (Iowa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Do not waste your money. This Lampoon collection is so bad it is hard to define. A page or two of humor surrounded by pages of wasted time. Lampoon pretends to be high-intelect humor, but this stuff just comes off mean and stupid, with emphasis on stupid.
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