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A Futile and Stupid Gesture

What do you want? You want to write your little joke booksyour whole life?

What do you want? You want to write your little joke books
your whole life?

Full Transcript

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What do you want?
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You want to write your little joke books your whole life?
Duration
4 seconds
Views
97
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:22
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.
- Hello, Doug? - I'll just keep doing The Lampoon. - A Futile and Stupid Gesture 00:07
- Hello, Doug? - I'll just keep doing The Lampoon.
- 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...