About this episode
On The Gist, we here at Slate take GDPR compliance very seriously … just not in this monologue. Before SNL , David Wain says, the countercultural comedy torch belonged to National Lampoon. The laugh magazine was created by Harvard graduates and became a creative laboratory for movies like Animal House and Caddyshack . Chief among them was Doug Kenney, the subject of Netflix biopic A Futile and Stupid Gesture , which Wain directs. In the Spiel, the nostalgia we feel around meals and dishes is overrated. It's not about the food; it's about the feels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices