Today's Cancel Culture would blow a fuse trying to erase the careers of anyone involved in these 1970s sketches by the famed National Lampoon comedy troupe. Nat Lamp aired a syndicated weekly radio show in the 70s. Many of their most popular segments were later sold on albums. Here's one that would never see the light of day in this enlightened world. In the recording posted above, John Belushi interviews the very gay Charles Bronson (Christopher Guest), Clint Eastwood (Chevy Chase), and Lee Marvin (Steven Collins). Heads would explode in 2020 if comedians released this stinging mockery of LGBTQ people. But in the 1970s, being gay earned derision at the very least and violence at the very worst. In a separate sketch, Guest plays
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There really was a channel that played music videos
When our bosses at WLRS pulled the plug on our morning cable TV show in 1981, Ron Clay and I laughed. "They're replacing us with some new channel called MTV. Who would watch music videos all day?" Apparently, most people wanted to watch music videos and not Ron and me doing our radio show. I have to admit...it kind of stung. David Bowie sings Let's Dance while some goofy people mill around a bar, then they're in the desert seeing a mirage, then a woman is scrubbing the street. Oh, OK. Drugs much? People eventually agreed with me and tired of repetitive music videos featuring bizarre video imagery. MTV started airing schlock TV which thrives even to this day. Just for old