“First Blowjob” by Doug Kenney

by bloodandtacos

From NATIONAL LAMPOON: A DIRTY BOOK edited by P.J. O’Rourke, published in 1976.

If you don’t understand satire, please do not read this story. If you take everything literally and you believe that a story should be just and moral, please do not read this story. If you believe that characters in stories are real people, please do not read this story. If you have no sense of humor…you get where I’m going with this.

Doug Kenney, along with Michael O’Donoghue, Tony Hendra, John Hughes (yes, that John Hughes), P.J. O’Rourke, and many more were the comic masterminds behind National Lampoon Magazine. Kenney, who died too young at 33, was also the co-writer of Animal House and Caddyshack, and one of the funniest men who ever lived.

From its opening salvo, “First Blowjob” creates a pitch-perfect parody of every date story ever told:

“A young girl’s senior prom can mean many things: a bouquet of memories…or a pillow full of tears…”

Unapologetic, politically incorrect, and just plain mean, this is comedy at its rawest. A prime example of someone putting their sense of humor out there, without caring whether the reader gets it or not. And isn’t that what art (and honest comedy) is?

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