National Lampoon Gold Turkey is a American album of sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 that was first released as a vinyl record in 1975. It was a spin-off from National Lampoon magazine. The album is a collection of "greatest hits" from the National Lampoon Radio Hour, a radio show that was broadcast on 600 radio stations and ran from from November 17, 1973 to December 28, 1974.

The sketches on Gold Turkey feature numerous National Lampoon actors including Christopher Guest

Christopher Guest

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest , better known as Christopher Guest, is an American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor and comedian. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational "mockumentary" films that...

, Bill Murray, John Belushi

John Belushi

John Adam Belushi was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, The Star of the Films National Lampoon's Animal House and the The Blues Brothers and for fronting the American blues and soul...

, Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray is an American comedian, screenwriter, actor and voice artist. He is the older brother of actor/comedian Bill Murray and has acted together with him in several films, including Caddyshack, Scrooged, Ghostbusters II, The Razor's Edge and Groundhog Day...

, Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...

, Harold Ramis

Harold Ramis

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, Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner

Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978.-Early life:...

, and Ed Subitzky

Ed Subitzky

Ed Subitzky, full name Edward Jack Subitzky is an American writer and artist, who is best known as a cartoonist, comics artist, and humorist/humor writer. He has also worked as a television comedy writer and performer, a writer and performer of radio comedy, and a writer of radio drama, as well as...

.

Gold Turkey was also subsequently issued as a CD.
The title of the album "Gold Turkey" is a reference to the phrase "cold turkey" a phrase meaning to suffer sudden withdrawal from an addictive substance; there is a John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

 song Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey

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. "Gold Turkey" as shown into cover illustration is a visual pun on the golden statue awards for entertainment, such as the Oscars and the Emmy

Emmy Award

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, and is simultaneously a verbal pun on the word "turkey" meaning a box office bomb

Box office bomb

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or entertainment failure.

List of tracks

1. Front Row Center
2. Public Disservice
3. Mother Goose's Wine
4. My Husband
5. Megaphone Newsreel
6. The Trial
7. Jimmy Dugan Story
8. Well-Intentioned Blues
9. A Laugh From The Past
10. Stand Up
11. Hockey
12. Prison Farm
13. Mr. Veal Chop
14. The Immigrants