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Banksy, the ever-elusive artist well-known for his hidden identity, may be forced to reveal his name after art collectors sued him for refusing to authenticate a print. Nicky Katz and Ray Howse sued Banksy’s company, Pest Control, for what they say is a refusal to authenticate their print of “Monkey Queen,” which they acquired for around $38,500. If the lawsuit makes it to court, the artist — who’s only revealed his first name, Robbie — might have to give up his full identity. The print, which features a Queen Elizabeth lookalike as a monkey with a crown and jewels, only...

Chevy Chase was living out a scenario right out of a National Lampoon flick. The actor claims he was attacked in a road rage incident while traveling over the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York earlier this month when a passenger kicked him so hard he fell to the ground, TMZ reported. Chase, 74, told police that a black pick-up truck cut him off on Feb. 9 and he thought the truck might have hit his car, so he flashed his lights until the driver pulled over. He realized there was no damage, but still went up to the driver...

It started as a continuation of the misadventures of the Griswold family; it ended up becoming one of the most surprisingly popular and oft-quoted holiday movies of all time. This month marks the 25th anniversary of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, in which beleaguered patriarch Clark Griswold — played by the inimitable Chevy Chase — tries to engineer the picture-perfect seasonal festivities: the best naturally procured tree, the biggest and brightest (literally) Christmas-light display on the block, the end-of-the-year bonus from his Scrooge-like boss. It's the only comedy to appeal to those who live for that deck-the-halls spirit, viewers who are...

PHILADELPHIA — Federal prosecutors on Monday accused the CEO of National Lampoon Inc. and two other people of trying to inflate the company's stock price by paying people to buy shares.

This video was on the old National Lampoon site, it is no longer there. Obviously the new Lampoon people are too Liberal to show this. I do not know the politics of the creator of this, but he definitely knows what’s funny. Definitely dark humor, but in the TRUE tradition of the Lampoon. (Michael O'Donoghue would have LOVED this) Found this on YouTube! I am SOOOO Happy to finally share this with fellow sick-minded FReepers. If you don't like dark humor....don't click this link!Ted Kennedy Meets Christopher Reeve

The National Lampoon created a video of Seinfeld clips as they relate to Michael Richards' meltdown at the Laugh Factory. Link to view videoIf you're at work, it would be a good idea to put on your headphones or turn down the volume on your computer speakers.

Some Kind of Republican Was John Hughes really in favor of teen rebellion? By Michael Weiss Posted Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, at 4:36 PM ET As far as adult teen whisperers go, John Hughes has enjoyed a remarkable staying power. Anyone who grew up in the '80s—or just caught the decade on reruns on rainy Saturday-afternoon television—can probably remember high school as much for its unique misery as for the Breakfast Club references it evokes. Hughes was in his 30s when he became successful, and he managed to make teen cinema intentionally funny and less condescending toward its core audience,...

My beloved Cleveland Browns with a record of 4-8 on the season are headed for Cincinnati to play the much lauded Bengals who are 9-3 on the year. Could it happen!? You know it! If the Browns can pull off the upset on Sunday, what sweet stunner that would be! I couldn't find a Brown's post more recent than following their victory over "da bears" a couple of months ago, so I thought I'd put something out there. GO BROWNS! FREAK THE NATION!

Looking for a copy of the Classic National Lampoon Cover "Buy this Magazine or we will shoot this dog".

Hey, buddy! Canada here! We were all really excited when we heard aboot all you Democrats moving up here after the Christian Conservatives took over your country. But it's been like months, now, eh? We figured maybe you got stuck in traffic at first. But now we think maybe you're not coming after all. We wouldn't want to be pushy or anything, but have you given us a fair shot? Even though we're right next door, most Americans don't know anything aboot Canada. (And we're cool with that. We wouldn't want to impose. We're probably not that interesting anyway. How...

Would you put your stock in National Lampoon? No, really. What if it said please? The Los Angeles-based funny factory needs some serious financial assistance. It's hoping to sell $8 million worth of stock to repay loans and help National Lampoon Inc. stave off additional losses. National Lampoon shares a name with its collegiate predecessor but little else. Still, Harvard Lampoon President Simon Rich wasn't buying it. ``It's probably a prank,'' Rich said yesterday. ``It's the kind of thing they would do.'' Only this is no joke. National Lampoon filed paperwork last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission and...

We have yet to hear the results of the Iraqi’s first legitimate vote in over thirty years and President Bush and is already trying to paint the election as a success. It isn’t working. Questions need to be asked and answered. How do we know that those who did vote didn’t vote AGAINST Democracy? How fair is an state of an election when it doesn’t allow the last elected president to run? A president, who we might remind you, received OVER 100% of the vote in the last election. In perpetrating this fraudulent message of success, Sean Hannity and Rush...

THE REAL STORY OF RATHERGATE CBS announces staff firings and cutbacks, but what they didn’t say was that the big bloodshot eye network would be outsourcing its entire operation to India. Was it because that isn’t going to happen or that... THEY DIDN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW? Perhaps that’s something we’ll never know for sure but how long before Apu--I’m sorry--Brad, closes his newscast with "Courage"? Examples: Labor Day: CBS producer Mary Mapes speaks to Kerry advisor, Joe Lockhart, but both Lockhart and Mapes say they only spoke about "how damn hot it is around this time of year." Not...

ACLU SUES ACLU. ACLU COUNTERSUES. Legal Advocacy Group Admits Overstepping Their Bounds. "We Couldn‚t Let Us Get Away With It." An Open Letter From The ACLU To The ACLU Dear ACLU Member, It is with the utmost regret, but with extreme faith in our noble purpose, that we at the American Civil Liberties Union have found no choice but to take legal action against the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU was conceived to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. And we...

National Lampoon presents the pirated script notes of the forthcoming documentary, "O'Reilly Size Me," which will be appearing in a theater near you...or at least within a few miles. As part of a media-culture thesis at the University of Levittown, Prof. Steve Young, wanted to determine how much, if any, heavy doses of particular broadcasts affects the mental, emotional and physical health of the viewer or, in some cases, viewee. Young would watch and listen to Bill O’Reilly everyday for a month. Two hours of radio in the morning and one hour every evening on Fox TV. This type of...

We might have gone too far this time...oh, what the hell. (AP, Dec. 04) Spics, Grease Balls, Butt Bangers. Slurs? Perhaps. But if Secretary of Commerce nominee, Carlos Gutierrez, chief executive officer of the Kellogg Co had his way, you might have found every one of those cereals gracing your local Costco cereal aisle shelves. In a White House that prides itself on minority hiring, the nomination of Secretary of Commerce nominee and alleged Latino, Gutierrez, chief executive officer of the Kellogg Co, another of the cabinet appointments President Bush has propped up as supposed models of true affirmative action,...

FOUND! The text of the speech President Bush WANTED to give at Clinton library http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Friends, distinguished guests, President and Mrs. Clinton, and those who I beat the hell out of in the last two elections. What a great pleasure to stand here on this special day in front of this double-wide you call a Presidential library — the only Presidential library that hands you a towel after touring through the eight years of your — interesting — term. I didn't know if I was supposed to use the towel to dry off the after the shower I needed...

Votergate Continues 3,900 Down. 3,996,100 To Go—Kerry Closes in on Victory Now a mere twenty days after Bush's alleged win, we here at MoveOnPlease continue to not give up the good fight in uncovering the massive voting fraud that cost us the election. It is more important than ever that we don't leave one ballot unturned to find every potential Kerry vote. Our dedicated volunteer investigators continue to ferret out, ballot by ballot, any missing disenfranchised votes. And while we, admittedly, haven't found any yet, remember, readers: slow and steady wins the race.

LOSING DOES NOT MEAN WE'VE LOST Democratic party spirits were high last night in Miami, as John Kerry, Bruce Springsteen and other supporters took to the stage in celebration of their upcoming electoral loss November 2. "Victory In Defeat 2004" kicked off with several Springsteen numbers before Kerry himself gave an anticipatory concession speech in front of a jubilant crowd. "It's not over until it's over," said Kerry, "and even then, not yet. When the American public elects the wrong man this Tuesday, it will give Democrats the position in which we have always succeeded most strongly: criticizing Republicans in...

In the midst of an especially bitter political season, the troublemakers at "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" can be seen regularly on Comedy Central, shamelessly exploiting current events for their own gain. Now this crew carries its mischief even further with a mock textbook that purports to describe American democracy. It tells us, among other things, that the Oval Office has no corners in which the president can be made to sit in if he shames the nation. It also tells us that if "The Daily Show'' had its way, the world would be a vastly funnier place. In...