A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever runs 15.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Chris Lutkin (about 10.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 31 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
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What our data says
- At 15.3 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 8,856 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog.
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Chris Lutkin narrates 37 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 271 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf
399 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever is an audiobook by Josh Karp: a 15.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Chris Lutkin, released October 3, 2017, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Chris Lutkin
- Released
- October 3, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Arts & Entertainment
- ISBN
- 9781666592030
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever as an audiobook?
A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever runs 15.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.2 hours.
Is A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever?
A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever is narrated by Chris Lutkin.
Is A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.2 hours, saving 5.1 hours.