Name: A Load of Hooey
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
ISBN: 9781938073885

Bob Odenkirk

Collects humorous and absurd stories, vignettes, and unclassifiable prose pieces.

A Collection of New Short Humor Fiction

A Load of Hooey

Patrick Book

brendan sudol

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.”

Matt Stein

"Includes selections from Famous quotations--unabridged."

A Load of Hooey A Collection of New Short Humor Fiction

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