Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead poster

Movie · 2015

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

Released 25 January 2015 More from 2015 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Richard Nixon
as Self - Former President USA / Actor (archive footage)
Died aged 81, before release
George Plimpton
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Died aged 76, before release
Chevy Chase
as Self - Actor
71
Richard Belzer
as Self - Actor / Producer
70
Christopher Guest
as Self - Actor
66
Fred Gwynne
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Died aged 66, before release
John Hughes
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
Died aged 59, before release
Kevin Bacon
as Self - Actor
56
Judd Apatow
as Self - Director / Producer
47
Gilda Radner
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Died aged 42, before release
John Lennon
as Self (archive footage)
Died aged 40, before release
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
41years between the oldest and youngest billed
81Richard Nixon — oldest on the call sheet
40John Lennon — youngest billed
61average age of the credited cast
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