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Apr 13, 2015 · In an adaptation from a new book about the 45-year struggle to make the film, Josh Karp reveals why Welles’s last movie is the stuff of legend.
A Futile and Stupid Gesture is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film based on Josh Karp's book of the same title, directed by David Wain, and written by Michael Colton and John Aboud. The film stars Will Forte as comedy writer Douglas Kenney, during the rise and fall of National Lampoon.
Sep 10, 2006 · Josh Karp chronicles Kenney's role in co-founding National Lampoon, a publication that served as a catalyst for a new wave of American comedy -- one Karp credits for influencing...
Karp is the author of A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever and teaches journalism at Northwestern. Karp first played golf in sixth grade and was the worst golfer on some very bad high school and college golf teams.
Film journalist, author and film producer —and friend of the podcast— Josh Karp makes his 5th visit. This time we discuss the latest article he co-wrote with...
Journalist and screenwriter Josh Karp traces the rise and longtime prominence of the satirical National Lampoon style of sly, intellectual comedy in his historical overview A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever.
This is film journalist & author Josh Karp's 4th visit to Filmwax. Josh lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Susan, and their four sons. A jou...
