another clue to the success like this magazine was unlike mad magazine. all the art work was done intentionally to rep my katie whenever was being parodied. the 1970s were a fertile time for humor. people were bitter, smutty, dirty, funny. drunk. drunk and outrageous. the hopes of the 60s have given way to the frustration of the 70s. the vietnam was lost, the civil rights movement was won and the argument was over. the crazy thing that made lampoon a success, we needed a laugh. the joy of sex, wound up punching to down time, over time. at the national lampoon