Cast and Crew of Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subversive and electrifying beginnings, to rebirth as an unlikely Hollywood heavyweight, and beyond. A humour empire like no other, the impact of the magazines irreverent, often shocking, sensibility was nothing short of seismic: this is an institution whose (drunk stoned brilliant) alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture. Both insanely great and breathtakingly innovative, The National Lampoon created the foundation of modern comic sensibility by setting the bar in comedy impossibly high.

Full Cast of Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

John Belushi

as Self / Actor (archive footage)

John Candy

as Self / Actor (archive footage)

Chevy Chase

as Self / Actor

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, ...

Bill Murray

as Self / Actor

William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exp...

Gilda Radner

as Self / Actress (archive footage)

John Goodman

as Self / Actor

John Goodman is an American stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Dan Conner on the television...

Beverly D'Angelo

as Self / Actress

Beverly D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress and singer. Description above from the Wikipedia ar...

Kevin Bacon

as Self / Actor

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal Hous...

Richard Belzer

as Self / Actor / Producer

Richard Jay Belzer (August 4, 1944 - February 19, 2023) was an American stand-up comedian, author, and actor. He is ...

Christopher Guest

as Self / Actor

The Rt. Hon. Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), better known as Christopher Gues...

Fred Gwynne

as Self / Actor (archive footage)

John Hughes

as Self / Writer (archive footage)

John Landis

as Self / Film Director

John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for hi...

Tim Matheson

as Self / Actor / Director / Producer

Meat Loaf

as Self (archive footage)

Michael Lee Aday (September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022), better known as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor...

Billy Bob Thornton

as Self / Actor / Director

Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and musician. Thornton gained e...

Richard Nixon

as Self / Former President USA (archive footage)

John Lennon

as Self (archive footage)

Yoko Ono

as Self (archive footage)

Yōko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and ...

Stevie Wonder

as Self (archive footage)

George Plimpton

as Self / Actor (archive footage)

George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor...

Judd Apatow

as Self / Director / Producer

Judd Apatow (born December 6, 1967) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well known for hi...

Harold Ramis

as Self / Film Director (archive footage)

Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, director, and writer, specializing in comedy. His best-known film acting ro...

Ivan Reitman

as Self / Film Director

Ivan Reitman OC (October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022) was a Canadian-American film and television director, producer...

Danny Abelson

as Self / Lampoon Contributer

Tony Hendra

Douglas Kenney

as Self (archival footage)

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