National Lampoon Radio Hour
| Genre | Comedy, satire |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Starring |
John Belushi Chevy Chase Richard Belzer Christopher Guest Bill Murray Gilda Radner Brian Doyle-Murray Harold Ramis |
| Original release | November 17, 1973 – December 28, 1974 |
The National Lampoon Radio Hour was a comedy radio show which was created, produced and written by staff from National Lampoon magazine.
The show ran weekly, for a little over a year, from November 17, 1973 to December 28, 1974. Originally an hour in length, after 13 weeks it was cut down to half-an-hour due to the difficulty of putting together the very considerable amount of material required for a one-hour show.
The show was created by Michael O'Donoghue and producer/engineer Bob Tischler. When O'Donoghue left, later producers included Sean Kelly, Brian McConnachie and John Belushi.
Performers on the show included John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John DeBella,Gilda Radner, and Harold Ramis, who was one of the co-writers for the National Lampoon movie Animal House. Other writers and performers on the show included Anne Beatts, Richard Belzer,Christopher Cerf, Brian Doyle-Murray, Joe Flaherty, Christopher Guest, who did many of the show's musical parodies, Ed Subitzky, Douglas Kenney (another co-writer of Animal House) and Bruce McCall.
The radio show was recorded in a studio specially built at the National Lampoon's offices. The musical theme for the show was co-written and performed by Bob Hoban and Nate Herman.
The show was broadcast nationally on 600 different radio stations, but the stations picking it up were free to air it at any time they chose. It proved difficult to get enough advertising to support the series: national sponsors seemed reluctant to take on the show, probably because of the controversial nature of much of its material.
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