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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Worth the price of admission entirely for the extended essay on Martha Stewart's vaginal decorations. (  ) annenoise | Jun 5, 2009 |  Sporadically amusing, but nowhere near as funny as I would have expected from Jon Stewart. Some of these essays had the potential to be truly, caustically funny—Martha Stewart's tips on how to tastefully decorate your vagina; Larry King interviewing Adolf Hitler—but others either suffered obviously from not being delivered orally by Stewart, with the timing and pacing and inflection that he does so well, or were just plain silly. The opening story in particular, the one about the Kennedys, was rather painfully unfunny. There's nothing here that he doesn't do in The Daily Show, and do better. (  )1  siriaeve | Oct 29, 2008 | A collection of humorous essays dealing with everything from deformed, exiled members of the Kennedy Family to Martha Stewart's vagina, the author gives off plenty of frat-boy humor and sophisticated irony to appease two different sets of readers. For everyone in between, there is little to nothing. When the laughs come, they are either small chuckles of acknowledgment or guffaws from illiterates giggling at the word "penis". Stewart shines when he is dead-on, like in his short but comedically satisfying "A Very Hanson Christmas", or when he parodies Judaism (which occurs very often). Using hyperbole at its best in "Breakfast at the Kennedy's" and "Pen Pals", Stewart pens a social commentary for this day and age - both the hopelessly stupid and the well educated. Unfortunately, it caters more to the former rather than the latter, and highlights the stunning disparities between the two. Overall, an A for effort, but a significantly worse grade for the lack of adeptness in which it is carried out. ( )1 | Sep 23, 2008 | edit | |   jmnlman | May 30, 2008 | Not Jon's best work. It had a few laugh out loud moments, but most of the book felt like a simple exaggeration of the stereotypes we've built around our celebrities. Everything was what we already thought and then multiplied times 10. Not enough original humor to make it worth buying. Pick up America: The Book instead. ( ) SatansParakeet | Feb 18, 2008 | 
 Stewart... has something of a fat-target problem, and seems partly unaware of this problem’s source in his own need to please an audience that has a limited range of reference.
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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
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400)
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