A Load of Hooey |
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| Author:
| Odenkirk, Bob |
| Series title: | Odenkirk Memorial Library |
| ISBN: | 978-1-940450-66-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | McSweeney's Publishing
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on
Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal TV shows. This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues ("Martin Luther King, Jr’s Worst Speech Ever”) to intentionally bad theater ("Hitler Dinner Party: A Play”); from avant-garde fiction ("Obituary for the Creator of Madlibs”) to...
More DescriptionBob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal TV shows. This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues ("Martin Luther King, Jr’s Worst Speech Ever”) to intentionally bad theater ("Hitler Dinner Party: A Play”); from avant-garde fiction ("Obituary for the Creator of Madlibs”) to free-verse poetry that's funnier and more powerful than the work of Calvin Trillin, Jewel, and Robert Louis Stevenson combined.
Odenkirk's debut resembles nothing so much as a hilarious new sketch comedy show that’s exclusively available as a streaming video for your mind. As Odenkirk himself writes in "The Second Coming of Jesus and Lazarus,” it is a book "to be read aloud to yourself in the voice of Bob Newhart.”