National Lampoon, Inc. (AMEX:NLN), the most widely recognized brand in comedy, announced today that it has launched a National Lampoon video channel on YouTube (Nasdaq:GOOG), the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos.
"The new National Lampoon channel on YouTube Video is another step in our progress towards building out the National Lampoon Video Network," said Daniel Laikin, National Lampoon's Chief Executive Officer. "Our relationship with YouTube provides another destination for our fans worldwide to view our original comedy content and interact with our programming."
All of National Lampoon’s new programming will be made available on YouTube through the National Lampoon channel at www.youtube.com/user/NatLamp. Initial programming includes National Lampoon’s hugely popular webisodes, which have drawn praise from top critics nationwide, as well as National Lampoon’s SpinCycle mashimations and the Fat Guy Nation series.
About National Lampoon
National Lampoon, Inc. (AMEX:NLN) has been a dominant force in the US comedy world for almost 30 years and is currently active in a broad array of media and entertainment segments, including feature films, television programming, online and interactive entertainment, home video, audio CDs and book publishing. The Company also owns interests in all major National Lampoon properties, including National Lampoon’s Animal House, the National Lampoon Vacation series and National Lampoon’s Van Wilder. National Lampoon reaches nearly one in four of all 18 to 24 year old college students in America today. The Company has three core operating divisions: Entertainment Division, College Marketing Division, and a distribution arm National Lampoon Networks, providing content traditionally through its College TV network and across new media through multiple in-house digital platforms including the broadband channel Toga TV.com, the National Lampoon video channel on AOL, and the National Lampoon Humor Network - the most trafficked humor sites on the web - along with multiple other outlets housed on its online comedy website www.nationallampoon.com.
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