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Mr. Funny Pants (2011)

by Michael Showalter(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0446542105 (ISBN13: 9780446542104)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

review 1: enjoyed a lot, enjoy this style of writing. like any "comedian book" has a few small errors but easier to not care about when you enjoy it a lot, which i did. there's a lot of words spent on explaining pointless concepts or semantics and being increasingly tangential and if you like that (I do!) you'll like this a lot and if you don't you probably won't. I am pretty much only familiar with his stuff from podcasts and maybe one episode of Stella. this is a good book I liked reading.
review 2: I love Michael Showalter, so I wanted to love this book, but I found it extremely hit-or-miss. At times, I could feel the effort he was putting into being quirky and it caused the humor to fall flat. Or else the humor just fell flat all on its own. A huge theme of the bo... moreok was blatantly trying to fill up space (a la Colbert, Dinello, & Sedaris' Wigfield), but the bit wore thin quickly in this case. He wasn't comically wasting space to fill out the book, he was simply wasting space. However, there were some wonderful moments that made me laugh aloud at work. There simply weren't enough of them for this to be a good book overall, or to overcome the moments of making me wince when he was straining to be funny. I will stick to loving Michael Showalter for his acting. less

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