Matty Simmons, a founder of the Diners Club credit card and Weight Watchers magazine who found his highest profile success after co-founding National Lampoon magazine and producing film offshoots i…
franchise, died Wednesday in Los Angeles following a brief, non-coronavirus-related illness. He was 93.“Yesterday I lost my hero,” Kate Simmons wrote on Instagram. “My dad had gone from the sharpest, healthiest 93 year old most people have encountered to abruptly having every imaginable issue except corona.”
A statement tweeted by National Lampoon reads, “The comic geniuses everyone knows deserve much credit for our legacy. BUT, there’d be no #Vacation, #AnimalHouse nor #NationalLampoon w/o crazy, wonderful, visionary Matty Simmons.” Dying exactly 50 years after the founding of the Lampoon, the company said, feels like Simmons’ “last great punchline.”Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Making of Animal House
, Simmons made a remarkable and still-felt impact on the world of comedy, first through the Lampoon magazine, its seminal stage showand The National Lampoon Radio Hour – projects that would introduce a generation of comedy icons to the world: Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Michael O’Donoghue, Christopher Guest and Richard Belzer., Simmons expanded his reach and influence to the big screen, making full-fledged movie stars of Belushi and Chase.
After leaving Diners Club , Simmons in the late 1960s founded 21st Century Communications, which would soon find financial success as the publisher of Weight Watchers Magazine. In 1970, the company began publishing the National Lampoon, a nation-wide spin-off of the Harvard Lampoon humor magazine.
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