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Hello, Doug? - I'll just keep doing The Lampoon
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A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Hello, Doug?- I'll just keep doing The Lampoon. - What?- What? If you think I'm gonna...

Hello, Doug?
- I'll just keep doing The Lampoon. - What?
- What? If you think I'm gonna pay
for another year of college

Full Transcript

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- Hello, Doug? - I'll just keep doing The Lampoon.
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- What? - What?
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If you think I'm gonna pay for another year of college...
Duration
7 seconds
Views
40
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:27
Uploaded
Jun 28, 2025
Genres
biography, comedy
Production
Abominable Pictures,Principato-Young Entertainment

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Movie Summary

In the 1970s and '80s, National Lampoon's success and influence creates a new media empire overseen in part by the brilliant and troubled Douglas Kenney.
- I'm not doing that. - I don't have all the details, - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
- I'm not doing that. - I don't have all the detai...
Come on. He needs help with the topspin. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:12
Come on. He needs help with the topspin.
Oh, this scheme is full-assed. Why settle for real jobs? - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
Oh, this scheme is full-assed. Why settle for real jobs?
The world doesn't need more lawyers or insurance executives or doctors. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
The world doesn't need more lawyers or insurance execut...
I mean, yeah, okay, it needs doctors. Thousands. But it also needs us. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:06
I mean, yeah, okay, it needs doctors. Thousands. But it also...
Seriously? You assholes are gonna have kids play for you the whole game? - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
Seriously? You assholes are gonna have kids play for you the...
You want to be a writer, write a novel on the side, - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
You want to be a writer, write a novel on the side,
What you want to do is keep on doing The Lampoon. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:07
What you want to do is keep on doing The Lampoon.
You want me to give up a career in law to rely on you - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:07
You want me to give up a career in law to rely on you
- But this will be big. I can feel it. - How big? - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
- But this will be big. I can feel it. - How big?
If we're running our own magazine, we can do anything we want. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
If we're running our own magazine, we can do anything w...
- That can go in issue one. - Let me ask you this: - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:08
- That can go in issue one. - Let me ask you this:
- No. - I challenge you, - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
- No. - I challenge you,
Look, I know it's risky, okay, but why let it end here? - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
Look, I know it's risky, okay, but why let it end here?
The truth is I can't do this without you, man. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
The truth is I can't do this without you, man.
And the day that it stops being fun, we'll walk away. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
And the day that it stops being fun, we'll walk away.
I looked at your proposal for Harvard Lampoon. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:12
I looked at your proposal for Harvard Lampoon.
Oh, and you think that's what this country needs is a comedy magazine. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
Oh, and you think that's what this country needs is a c...
Shouldn't Harvard boys like you be working on Wall Street - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:07
Shouldn't Harvard boys like you be working on Wall Stre...
There's a vast gap between Mad magazine and the New Yorker... - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:06
There's a vast gap between Mad magazine and the New Yor...