Bill Scheft, in his review of "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" (Dec.
There were stories of him being drunk, stoned, depressed, going off the rails.
"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" is a coffee-table book — big, colorful, and fun to flip through.
"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" traces the frazzled arc of the National Lampoon, the humor magazine founded in 1969 by former members of the Harvard Lampoon.
People may talk because they are drunk, stoned, in shock or emotionally disturbed, or because they believe they can bluff their way out of trouble.
Writing in the Spectator, Lloyd Evans summed the fringe up as no less than "vain, greedy, embittered, jealous, self-obsessed, megalomaniac, drunk, stoned and bankrupt".
"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great," by longtime National Lampoon artist Rick Meyerowitz, chronicles the history of the magazine through the wits that filled the publication over the years.
The National Lampoon wasn't published for very long (it died a slow and painful death in the nineties), but "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" does a good job at showing the scope of its achievement.
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead opens in theaters today.
For nearly my entire adult life I have been consistently drunk, stoned or otherwise impaired.
