A Futile and Stupid Gesture Quotes

Tom Snyder: Mr. Kenney, it's a fine line between being clever and offensive, isn't it?
Douglas Kenney: Look, if I could just say something in defense of National Lampoon for one moment...
Tom Snyder: Please.
Douglas Kenney: We come from a tradition of truth-tellers. A long time ago, there was someone else society found offensive. They thought that what he did was radical - dangerous. They persecuted him... and eventually killed him. Of course, I'm referring to Dracula.

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Douglas Kenney: Between the magazine and the radio show, I barely had time for my other hobbies, like being a terrible husband.

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Kathryn Walker: [after seeing Airplane!]Surely you're not upset because someone else made a funny movie.
Douglas Kenney: Don't you get it? That's the movie that everyone's gonna love, not fucking Caddyshack. I've been replaced. What the fuck am I gonna do now?
Kathryn Walker: You're supposed to say, Don't call me Shirley.

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Douglas Kenney: Fuck those guys, you know? They're just like my dad. They jerk off to Eisenhower biographies.
Henry Beard: Yes, but, and this is what I love about them, they have money.

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