JUST FOR LAUGHS: NATIONAL LAMPOON RADIO HOUR “DETERIORATA”

Originally published December 31, 2015.

Face it, life is better after you have a good laugh.  Take a couple of minutes and enjoy today’s nugget courtesy of National Lampoon Radio Hour.

National Lampoon Radio Hour was a weekly one-hour radio program that was independently distributed from November 1973 until December 1974. At its carriage peak, it was aired on over 600 stations including many album rock and college stations. It was created by Michael O’Donoghue and Bob Tischier.

Among the performers and writers on National Lampoon Radio Hour were John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis, Richard Belzer, Anne Beatts and Christopher Guest.

The skit below is Deteriorata, a parody of Les Crane's 1971 spoken-word recording of Desiderata, was popular at the time.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9VWfxKgwuE