National Lampoon's Class of '86 was a musical comedy stage show which was performed at the Village Gate in New York City in 1986. It was a spin-off of National Lampoon magazine. A tape of the show aired on cable in the 80's, and was subsequently available on VHS.

The show was a sketch-based satire of 1980's culture. In terms of plot, the sketches are held together by a frame story

Frame story

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 of two hippies named Galahad and Dewdrop, who had taken LSD

LSD

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 in 1969, fallen into a deep sleep, and then woken up 17 years later in 1986. The sketches in the show lampooned yuppie

Yuppie

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 culture, health food

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, the Reagan Administration

Ronald Reagan

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, airplane hijackings

Aircraft hijacking

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 and psychotherapy

Psychotherapy

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The writers were Andy Simmons and Dave Hanson. Two of the sketches in the show were "The Cabinet Meeting" and "Please Don't Drop The Bomb On My Boyfriend". The show was directed by Jerry Adler, and the six cast members were Rodger Bumpass

Rodger Bumpass

Rodger Albert Bumpass is an American character actor and voice actor, who is noted for his long-running-roles as Squidward Tentacles on the hit series SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Chief from Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?. He also voiced Professor Membrane on Invader Zim...

, Veanne Cox

Veanne Cox

Veanne Cox is an American stage and screen actress and former ballet dancer.Cox was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She studied ballet at the Washington School of Ballet, acting at the Studio Theatre's Conservatory in Washington, D.C., and voice at Catholic University.Her Broadway debut was in the...

, Annie Golden

Annie Golden

-Career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, Golden began her career as the lead singer of The Shirts . During the early 1990s she performed as part of the duo Golden Carillo with Frank Carillo. They released three albums,Fire in Newtown, Toxic Emotion, and Back for More. She then returned to The Shirts...

, Tommy Koenig, Brian Brucker O'Connor, and John Michael Higgins

John Michael Higgins

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