Celebrity Justice
Lampoon May Be Evicted From Its Animal House

National LampoonUnder the category of tough times, the National Lampoon may be getting evicted from its digs for nonpayment of rent.

The landlord for the West Hollywood headquarters of the National Lampoon -- home of the magazine since 1971 as well as numerous movies, including "Animal House" and "Vacation," -- claims in legal papers its owes back rent totaling $39,246. The monthly nut is $10,844.

Tim Durham, President of the Lampoon, tells us, "It's no secret the Lampoon has been struggling for the last several months." Durham says he expects the back rent will be paid.



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1. "Its" is the possessive form. It's is a contraction for "it is"

Posted at 7:23PM on Feb 27th 2009 by David

2. How do we know this is Giselle in the window with the baby? Would she have removed her veil?

Posted at 6:15AM on Feb 28th 2009 by Me

3. Their movies have been going down the crapper too. Their movies seem to be more and more stupid every time. At least Animal House and the Vacation movies were funny.

Posted at 7:32PM on Feb 27th 2009 by SuperManGut

4. I yous'd to steal the ny post in front of the building every day on my way home from work @ the world famous comedy store.......

Posted at 7:36PM on Feb 27th 2009 by toofastforyou!

5. Is this a surprise to anyone? National Lampoon lost their funny bone years and ran their franchise into the ground. The folks running National Lampoon should look in the mirror and realize that they have no clue how to be funny. I grew up on National Lampoon but they have clearly lost it. There's very funny funny magazine that actually does what National Lampoon can't do anymore -- they make you laugh! It's called Girls and Corpses Magazine and they are probably looking into the space that National Lampoon is being booted from!

Posted at 9:00PM on Feb 27th 2009 by Ken

6. Other than Van Wilder, the movies suck!!! But national lampoon's youtube videos are awesomely funny!!! i'm not sure those guys deserve to go down with the ship...
Travis

Posted at 9:16PM on Feb 27th 2009 by Travis

7. So... You have been in the same building since 1971, right? How many times have you paid for that building in 38 years? With all the money the franchise has made over 38 years, BUY the damn building and you would have saved yourself from this mess! Or... MOVE!!! It's not rocket science here!

Posted at 12:18AM on Feb 28th 2009 by Mike

8. They haven't been in that building since 1971. More like three or four years tops.

Posted at 3:07AM on Feb 28th 2009 by dsw

9. National Lampoon moved to the Sunset Blvd location a few years ago, after getting ot of oversized and overpriced offices on Wilshire. A new regime was taking over then and has been running the company. Look for another change in ownership soon and also look for two very funny movies to come from the company in the near future. THE LEGEND OF AWESOMEST MAXIMUS stars Will Sasso of MAD TV fame in a spoof of GLADIATOR while Christopher Meloni (SVU) and Mario Cantone (SEX and THE CITY) lead the cast of DIRTY MOVIE, written and produced by Alan Donnes who did the same for the very popular and highly acclaimed National Lampoon radio Hour. I think the company is heading in the right direction FINALLY. Now it's just a question of who will captain the ship.

Posted at 2:55PM on Feb 28th 2009 by frankly, scarelett

10. my buddy works for these people and he hasn't been paid in over a month

Posted at 8:20PM on Feb 28th 2009 by paul bates

11. two comments. TMZ - buy them out. paul bates: your buddy is an idiot.

Posted at 8:35PM on Feb 28th 2009 by Tim

12. Tim Durham recently replaced close, close friend Dan Laikin after Dan's recent criminal arrest on a stock manipulation scheme. If anyone is interested, Tim made millions and millions on Brightpoint (ticker: CELL) run by none other than Dan Laikin's brother Robert Laikin at the very time bondholders were fleeing in horror on what appeared to be an imminent bankruptcy for Brightpoint. At the bottom of this please review some of those spectacularly timed trades. In the interim enjoy this article over Durham getting sued for not paying some other disgruntled investors:

http://chicago.ibj.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=SUJKLzIwMDkvMDIvMTYjQXIwMDQwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Tim's LUCKY and fantastically timed bet on business partner Dan Laikin's brother' Robert Laikin's company:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=CELL&a=01&b=2&c=2002&d=02&e=2&f=2002&g=d

Posted at 11:50PM on Mar 1st 2009 by Blue Oak

13. They should just make Dorm Daze 3, and have Worm Miller write AND direct, there you go. Going out of business, they're still here?

Posted at 2:56AM on Mar 2nd 2009 by Dupont

14. Unreal ! Seems all National Lampoon is good for any more is screwing people and companies over ! I feel for the landlord and wish him good luck collecting the rent. Hell I guess what can you expect you have Dan Lakin x ceo of National Lampoon who is facing stock fraud Sec charges criminal ! You have the New CEO Tim Durham who well he just wont pay any of National Lampoons bills ! This is a company and 2 guys in business I would stay fare away from. I belong to a web site that has been massively screwed over by National Lampoon, Dan Lakin and Tim Durham. If any one is interested in yet another case of being screwed by National Lampoon Check it out ! www.Allmodelzone.com !

Posted at 12:35AM on Mar 5th 2009 by Mistygentil

15. The back rent on lampoons office of $39,000 ,is only a couple sessions of lipo suction for Durham! ,but he will riggle out of paying the rent and anything else he can.including staff
The man is not to be trusted in business ,he still owes the charity children of the night $7,500 dollars ,after using their name for a private playboy mansion party and as of yesterday had still not paid .
He will be bust or in jail within the year

Posted at 5:47AM on Mar 10th 2009 by Tim Porter

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