British Celebrities Cheer Andy Murray Wimbledon Win

LONDON -- Celebs, British or otherwise, cheered Scottish tennis star Andy Murray's triumph on Sunday at London's famous Wimbledon tournament. His three-set victory over Novak Djokovic meant the first British Wimbledon men's singles title since Fred Perry in 1936.

Among the tennis fans seen in the Wimbledon stands Sunday during the BBC's live coverage were Hollywood star Bradley Cooper and Gerard Butler, who just like Murray is Scottish and was repeatedly shown cheering him on.

The Wimbledon men's final also attracted other high-profile Brits, including Victoria Beckham, soccer star Wayne Rooney and Prime Minister David Cameron.

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Talent manager and Idol franchise creator Simon Fuller, who manages Murray as head of XIX Entertainment, was also in the Wimbledon stands. Others took to Twitter following Murray's win.

"Oh my God. What a match, what a player. Inspiring a Nation. Andy Murray!! Ya Beauty," tweeted Ewan McGregor.

Author Salman Rushdie said: "Andy Murray, first Briton to win Wimbledon wearing shorts! (77 yrs ago Fred Perry wore long trousers.) Bravo Andy! Great shorts! And shots!"

Author and comedian Stephen Fry quipped: "So happy I did a little wee."

And Victoria Beckham ?tweeted: "Congratulations to @andy_murray and his family. Wonderful day at #wimbledon!! So proud to be British! X vb."

Even Hugh Grant chimed in. "A propos of nothing in particular, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that I'm Scottish," he tweeted.

Congratulations also came from fellow tennis stars. "Pretty sure @andy_murray might have to change his twitter name to @sirandymurray...Well played and deserved!" tweeted Andy Roddick.

Music star Cliff Richard and TV star/chef Gordon Ramsay had expressed hope before the match that Murray would win.

"It's hard to tell who is going to win, but my heart says please let him have it this time, because he is good enough to win it," Richard told ITV.

And Ramsay tweeted: "Good luck today @andy_murray. Fingers crossed. #wimbledon"

"I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon, so I hope you enjoyed it," Murray told the BBC after his victory.

Several places in London, including bars and shopping centers, had shown the final on big screens for free. For example, hundreds of people were shown in TV reports following the game on a screen near Tower Bridge. And at Victoria's Cardinal Place shopping center, restaurants sold refreshments throughout the day and drew a crowd with the final, ITV reported.

In Wimbledon itself, large crowds were shown turning out on a scorching-hot day on the so-called Murray Mount to watch the action on a giant screen.

Security staff told supporters around midday that there was no space left on the mount but directed them to another screen that had been set up on court two, ITV reported.

John Belushi, Bill Murray and the Comedic Geniuses of 'National Lampoon': Book Review

Despite National Lampoon’s recognizability as the comedic brand behind such movies as Animal House, Vacation and, yes, Van Wilder, the magazine behind the name is nearly forgotten today.

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Drawing on extensive interviews, journalist Ellin Stein recounts in her sprawling new history That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick, how the magazine was, during its brief early-’70s heyday, the boot camp for some of pop culture’s greatest comedians.

When Doug Kenney, Henry Beard and Rob Hoffman joined the Harvard Lampoon in the mid-’60s, the humor magazine, founded in 1876, was a venerable institution whose fortunes long had been in decline.

The trio helped revitalize the Lampoon with a series of hit one-off parodies, and by 1970, they had part- nered with Matty Simmons, a former Diner’s Club executive, to launch National Lampoon.

The magazine was a quick success, becoming profitable in only six months and reaching

sales of more than 500,000 by 1972. The original found- ers ended up playing only a peripheral role in its success, as new staffers including P.J. O’Rourke, Mike O’Donoghue (Saturday Night Live’s first head writer) and Tony Hendra came on board.

Even bigger success came as National Lampoon was spun off into stage shows (Lemmings), a radio program (Radio Hour) and comedy albums — which, thanks to Lampoon’s free- wheeling and experimental atmosphere, attracted such people as John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

Stein’s description of these three years — from 1972 to SNL’s debut in 1975 — is dazzling (and is better than Tom Shales’ Live From New York), as is the stretch documenting how, in 1975, Kenney, magazine writer Chris Miller and Harold Ramis (who worked on the radio show) began writing a movie based on the magazine’s best-selling 1964 High School Yearbook parody. That film became 1978’s Animal House — which made Belushi a movie star.

Stein fittingly ends the book with Kenney’s tragic death in 1980 from either a suicide or accidental fall off a cliff in Hawaii (Chase had taken him there to help kick a drug habit). Without him, there simply wasn’t much Lampoon story left to tell.

That's Not Funny, That's Sick by Ellin Stein (Norton, June 24, 288 pages, $26)