A Futile and Stupid Gesture
(2018)
★ 6.5 IMDb · 384 votes
Year: 2018
Runtime: 101 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: David Wain
Cast: Уилл Форте, Донал Глисон, Martin Mull, Нил Кейси, Джон Дэйли, Нельсон Франклин, John Gemberling, Рик Глассман, Сет Грин, Гарри Грёнер
Plot
In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.
An old version of humorist Douglas Kenney tells the story of how he and Henry Beard parleyed their success in their campus magazine, Harvard Lampoon, into the commercial magazine, National Lampoon. Drawing upon their checkered lives and an aggressively puckish sense of humor, the pair created a publication that would redefine American comedy with outrageous drollery that grabbed the zeitgeist of the decade that expanded across various media. Unfortunately, for all his success, Doug Kenney with his overhanging insecurities, ego and irresponsible appetites began to consume him until he alienates everyone who ever cared and supported him even as they imitated him. In the end, this iconoclastic funnyman would come to a tragedy that comes when your comedy doesn't have enough distance.