[net.movies] "This Is Spinal Tap" Writers

eli@uw-june (Eli Messinger) (03/26/84)

Just a quick correction:  I believe that Christopher Guest is the only
ex-National Lampooner involved in this film.  The other two main contrib-
utors, David Lander and Harry Shearer, worked together previously in The
Credibility Gap (a radio/record comedy group), and separately as "Lenny"
(in Laverne and Shirley) and on Saturday Night Live, respectively.

	... uw-june!eli

citrin@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Citrin) (03/27/84)

> Just a quick correction:  I believe that Christopher Guest is the only
> ex-National Lampooner involved in this film.  The other two main contrib-
> utors, David Lander and Harry Shearer, worked together previously in The
> Credibility Gap (a radio/record comedy group), and separately as "Lenny"
> (in Laverne and Shirley) and on Saturday Night Live, respectively.
> 
>	 ... uw-june!eli

Not quite.  I seem to remember reading that Joey (Tony?) Hendra (a former
Lampoon editor) was somehow involved in the film.  For those who remember
the trend-setting parody "Not the New York Times" of about six years back,
Hendra appeared as Pope John Paul John Paul II in the photographs.

Wayne Citrin
(ucbvax!citrin)