Naked Pictures of Famous People
by Jon Stewart
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Author: Jon StewartEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-06
ISBN: 0688171621
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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- ISBN13: 9780688171629
- Condition: NEW
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Book Reviews of Naked Pictures of Famous People
Book Review: What was funny?
Summary: 1 Stars
Could NPoFP possibly be from the pen of the same Jon Stewart who brought us "America (the Book)" (one of the funniest books ever assembled)? It dawns on me that the latter was team-written. Not sure whether any of JS's colleagues contributed (ideas, moral support) to NPoFP. I imagine they'd cherish their anonymity if they did. NPoFP is a spectacularly unfunny book trying desperately -- and in the most hackneyed ways -- to provoke a laugh(, a chuckle, a crooked smile...) page after juvenile page. (Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of the Jon Stewart show and of JS himself. I think he's both a very funny and a very thoughtful guy 'in person'. That said, I can only register my surprise and disappointment at how totally TOTALLY lame a guy he apparently is (or at least was this time) on paper.) Oy veh!!
Summary of Naked Pictures of Famous People
In these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliantsense of timming, and a palate for the obsurd -- and these one-of-a-kind forays into his hilarious world will expose you to all its wickedly naked truths.
He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection of comic essays in Naked Pictures of Famous People.A seethingly irreverent wit, Stewart has a genius for language and brilliant timing that makes his up-to-the-minute collection a must-have for humor lovers in search of a Woody Allen for the 90s.He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection of comic essays in Naked Pictures of Famous People.
A seethingly irreverent wit, Stewart has a genius for language and brilliant timing that makes his up-to-the-minute collection a must-have for humor lovers in search of a Woody Allen for the 90s.
Sometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just has to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine is the last thing you need taking up valuable bookshelf space. Jon Stewart's book will come as an extremely pleasant surprise. He eschews the standard standup patter and instead gives us 18 short comic essays in a variety of styles that recall the prose work of Woody Allen, only with a few more references to genitals. Stewart proves himself a remarkably nimble humorist with a sharp eye for parody, whether he's writing "A Very Hanson Christmas" or "Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview."
HITLER: ...Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don't know ... I was a very angry guy.KING: And this ... new Hitler?
HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will.... Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything it's very freeing.
Stewart is not afraid to flirt with bad taste, in fact, some of the pieces in this collection do for "flirting with bad taste" what Bill Clinton did for "not having sexual relations." But it's wonderful to see an edgy comedian taking on the traditionally cozy genre of the humorous essay, creating work that combines the wit of Robert Benchley with the energy and attitude of the best modern standup. Naked Pictures of Famous People proves that Jon Stewart is as comfortable, and accomplished, in front of a word processor as he is in front of an audience. --Simon Leake
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