Wild and Crazy Guys

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The rollicking, behind-the-scenes story of the comedy misfits who ruled '80s Hollywood and the beloved films that made them stars. Wild and Crazy Guys opens in 1978 with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray taking bad-tempered swings at each other backstage at Saturday Night Live, and closes twenty-one years later with the two doing a skit in the same venue, poking fun at each other - their illustrious careers, their triumphs, and their pratfalls. In between, Nick de Semlyen takes us on a trip through the tumultuous 1980s, going behind the scenes of movies such as Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, National Lampoon's Vacation, and dozens more. Chronicling the off-screen, larger-than-life antics of Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and Rick Moranis, this insightful and wildly entertaining book has drugs, sex, fistfights, webbed toes, and Murray being pushed into a swimming pool by Hunter S. Thompson while tied to a lawn chair. Based on candid interviews from many of the stars themselves, as well as those in their immediate orbit, including John Landis, Carl Reiner, and Amy Heckerling, Wild and Crazy Guys is a fantastic insider account of the friendships, feuds, triumphs, and disasters experienced by these iconic funnymen. Hilarious and revealing, it is both a hidden history of the most fertile period ever for screen comedy and a celebration of some of the most popular films of all time.