What does National Lampoon's mean?

There was originally a magazine called National Lampoon and now it has become a production company. National Lampoon magazine was a humor magazine (I would assume something like Mad magazine) and the company now produces radio, TV, films and stage productions.

"Lampoon" means to parody and make fun of. "National Lampoon" was a great magazine that parodied everything. Along the same lines as MAD magazine. I still miss it.

RIP "The Stork."

It really doesn't mean that it is produced by the owners of National Lampoon's or Mad magazine. The use of the name is just a branding thing that the trademark holders sell. Some company bough the trademarks and whores the name out to a lot of second rate movies. And in some cases, unwatchable crap.

It was a syndicated sketch comedy radio show, like SNL on NPR, and a magazine. Humor. College audience mostly. Funny guys like John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, the writing and producing team that brought you all of those early Nat Lamp movies like Animal House, Caddyshack, Vacation, etc. Doug Kenny was a genius.

It also featured female nudity in these little foto funnies, which were like live action comic strips. That made it legendary in high school because you can see tits and not have to buy a magazine like Playboy, Penthouse and get embarrassed. We didn't have internet porn back in the day and tits were hard to come by. If you can find some of the humorous essays online, you'd definitely enjoy them.