Douglas Kenney
Douglas C. Kenney (December 10, 1946 – August 27, 1980) was an American writer and actor who co-founded the magazine National Lampoon in 1970. Kenney edited the magazine and wrote much of its early material.
Early life
Kenney was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and attended Gilmour Academy, near Cleveland, Ohio, for high school.
Career
National Lampoon
While at Harvard University, Kenney was a member of the Signet society and editor of The Harvard Lampoon. There he was part of the first group of newcomers who restyled the college humor magazine. Another of these writers was Henry Beard, with whom Kenney frequently collaborated, and who became a lifelong friend. Together with Beard, he wrote Bored of the Rings, which was published during 1969. Kenney graduated in 1968. Soon after, he, Beard and fellow Harvard alumnus Robert Hoffman began work on founding the humor magazine National Lampoon.
Kenney was one of the originating forces of what was to become known during the 1970s as the "new wave" of comedy, a dark, irreverent style of humor Kenney used as the basis for the magazine. Kenney was Editor-in-Chief from 1970 to 1972, Senior Editor 1973 to 1974, and Editor from 1975 to 1976.
Podcasts:
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Dog Gone
by: Frank BlackI could not pray
I felt so dog gone
Couldn't get no witness but I did not know
Then a voice in a whisper said you've got to carry it on
And the news is gonna break
The news is gonna break
The news is gonna break that I am here
Out along the way I got so bogged down
I had some business there I did not slow
And a boy in the world said you've got to carry it on
And the news is gonna break
The news is gonna break
The news is gonna break that I am here
I'm not a messenger
I'm not the passenger
Got some business there but you did not know
And the point of my visit, well sir, that's to carry me on
And the news ig gonna break
And the news is gonna break
Yeah, your noose is gonna break when I am there
No Paris
No Nepal
No Barstow
Won't be none of them at all
No Congo
No Kish or Kishangargh
No Memphis
It doesn't matter who you are
I'm on my way
I feel so dog gone
Go 'bout your business but you did not know
And the point if there is one, well sir
That's to carry me on
And the news is gonna break
(your noose is gonna break)
the news is gonna break that I am here)
the news is gonna break that I am here
and your noose is gonna break when I am there