The National Lampoon Show
The National Lampoon Show, a spinoff of the humor magazine National Lampoon, was a 1974–1976 stage show that helped launch the performing careers of John Belushi, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, and Harold Ramis. The show was produced by Ivan Reitman. ("overlooked" by National Lampoon writer/editor Sean Kelly). After closing in New York, it went on a second, nine-month-long, national tour. Ramis, meanwhile, used some of the sketches from the show in the script of National Lampoon's first film production, Animal House, released in 1978.