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A Futile and Stupid Gesture

That can go in issue one. with The Harvard Lampoon,how many deadlines have we missed? -...

That can go in issue one.
- Let me ask you this: with The Harvard Lampoon,
how many deadlines have we missed? - None.
- All of them

Full Transcript

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- That can go in issue one. - Let me ask you this:
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with The Harvard Lampoon, how many deadlines have we missed?
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- None. - All of them.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
54
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:16
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.
- 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...
We publish Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
We publish Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated.
You'll never sell a magazine. No one will ever go to a newsstand. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
You'll never sell a magazine. No one will ever go to a ...
Our Time parody, right there, sold over half a million copies. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:14
Our Time parody, right there, sold over half a million copie...
- I'm sorry? - Modern Sandwich. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:09
- I'm sorry? - Modern Sandwich.
Hey, we are a country divided in so many ways: - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:07
Hey, we are a country divided in so many ways:
But two slices of bread, some meat, a condiment or two? - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
But two slices of bread, some meat, a condiment or two?
But two slices of bread some meat a condiment or two - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:09
But two slices of bread some meat a condiment or two
There is a huge under-served audience for investigative sandwich journalism. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:07
There is a huge under-served audience for investigative sand...
Modern Sandwich! - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
Modern Sandwich!
Show pictures of pickles and things that look like pickles, - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:08
Show pictures of pickles and things that look like pickles,
The point is, you don't have a fucking clue. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:04
The point is, you don't have a fucking clue.
You're the kind of people who commute back and forth from Westport, Connecticut. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:05
You're the kind of people who commute back and forth fr...