This versatile comic talent wrote for Chicago's renowned Second City troupe and the National Lampoon radio show before co-scripting the antic fraternity house romp, "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978). Harold Ramis worked as a mental ward orderly and wrote jokes for PLAYBOY before starting his show business career. He teamed with John Belushi, Gilda Radner, and Bill Murray on "The National Lampoon Show," but when it came time to organize The Not Ready For Prime Time Players for NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in 1975, he was not asked to join the company by Lorne Michaels. Instead, he applied
