A load of hooey : a collection of new short humor fiction
Odenkirk, Bob, 1962-2014
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HUMOUR. 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 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."
Main title:
A load of hooey : a collection of new short humor fiction / Bob Odenkirk.
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Imprint:
San Francisco :McSweeney's, 2014.
Collation:
139 pages ; 22 cm.
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Contents:
Partial contents: Machine generated contents note: One Should Never Read a Book on the Toilet -- Beginnings, or, a Beginning, or, How This Book Begins -- A Portrait of the Artist -- "Didn't Work for Me" -- Her Laughter -- An Angel of the Lord -- My Education, or, the Education of a Me, or, I Not Dumb -- Louvre Audio Tour for Homeowners -- Putting It Out There -- My Manifesto -- I Think I Just Met God -- Politician's Promise -- Hitler Dinner Party: A Play -- My Speech to the Graduates of This Fine Institution -- What I'm Looking for in Another Man -- The Phil Spector I Knew -- Meaningful Poem -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s Worst Speech Ever -- Free Speech for All! -- A Hazy Christmas Memory -- Baseball Players' Poems about Sportswriters and Sportswriting -- The Origin of "Blackbird" -- I Misspoke -- I Found a Jackson Pollock! -- Abs -- Shakespeare in the Park -- What to Do in Case of Fire -- The Second Meeting of Jesus and Lazarus -- Actual-Factual New Jesus Facts -- So You Want to Get a Tattoo! --
ISBN:
9781938073885 (hbk)1938073886 (hbk)
Dewey class:
809.917
Language:
English
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BRN:
178794
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Literature | LITER 809.917 ODEN | Available |