A Load of Hooey

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 television 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 (¿Obit 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 Meeting of Jesus and Lazarus,¿ it is a book ¿to be read aloud to yourself in the voice of Bob Newhart.¿