A former newspaper reporter for the New York World-Telegram and Sun,Brooklyn, NY native Matty Simmons gained fame as the chief executive officer of National Lampoon magazine in the 1970s. He also produced the movie, Animal House and continues to write movies and television shows under the National Lampoon banner. The New York World-Telegram was formed by the 1931 merger of the New York World, formerly owned by Joseph Pulitzer and sold to Scripps Howard in 1930, and the Evening Telegram. ... The National Lampoon is a humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ... The Deltas in front of their house Movie poster of Animal House National Lampoons Animal House (also called Animal House) is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of Delta fraternity boys takes on the system at their college. ...
Simmons: Well they are staying at her house, and the love of her life turns out to be married, so she's disconsolate and she goes along with them on the trip to get away, and so does uncle Nick.
Simmons: We'll you are talking to a guy who has to go mea culpa because you are talking to a guy who founded the National Lampoon, and we introduced and founded this fl comedy.