Sean Kelly (writer)

Sean Kelly (born July 1940) is a Canadian author, writer, humorist, voice actor and teacher originally from Montreal. Kelly was an editor of the National Lampoon magazine from 1971 to 1977. He and Fred Graver served as co-Editors in Chief of National Lampoon under the pseudonym L. Dennis Plunkett. He currently teaches in the Humanities and Media Studies department of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Kelly's most memorable National Lampoon work may be "Son-O'-God Comics"[1], created with Michel Choquette and illustrated by the well-known comics artist Neal Adams. In 1973, Kelly co-wrote and co-directed National Lampoon's mock-rock musical Lemmings, which was subsequently issued as a soundtrack music album. The songs were also made available in the National Lampoon Songbook in 1976. In 1989, Stephen Holden of The New York Times commented:

“Pop debunking perhaps reached its zenith in the early '70s with albums like Goodbye Pop ... and National Lampoon's Lemmings in which Christopher Guest, Sean Kelly, Tony Hendra and others gleefully desanctified hallowed touchstones of the rock counterculture.”

At National Lampoon, Kelly often worked with other Lampoon writers, including Michel Choquette, Anne Beatts, Fred Graver and Tony Hendra.

There is a chapter (pages 136–147) about Sean Kelly in the 2010 book Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great by Rick Meyerowitz. On page 320 of the book, Meyerowitz calls Kelly, "the sharpest tack in Brooklyn".

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