2014653
9780060516260
Nutritiousness aside, May Contain Nuts provides 100% of the daily recommended amount of that essential life-enhancer, laughter. With more than 70 contributors and 150 shots from the loose canon of American humor, it's a stellar edition with plenty of real stars from stage and screen(writing): bull; Seinfeld 's Peter Mehlman bull; Hairspray 's Mark O'Donnell bull; Ed 's Michael Ian Black bull; and the world's most famous drive-in movie critic, Joe Bob Briggs Plus, there's Roy Blount Jr. on how to travel "Southern" outside the South; summer recipes from our man in the kitchen, Henry Alford; Firesign Theatre's Phil Austin's yuletide "Tale of the Old Detective"; P. J. O'Rourke's not-so-intimate "Diary of a Country Gentleman"; Daniel Radosh's "PowerPoint Anthology of Literature"; and Tom Gliatto's helpful overview of today's thriving cabaret scene. With umpteen illustrations, many perplexing charts, and our first centerfold ever, this volume is party-sized for your reading pleasure. New in This Issue a comprehensive teacher's guide a food section (including a transcript from Van Gogh's early cooking show) up-to-the-minute newscrawl a preview of the new all Law & Order Network "Blues for Advanced Beginners" Ingenious and iffy tributes to Orson Welles, Dale Earnhardt, Beck, John Edwards, and Celine DionRosen, Michael J. is the author of 'May Contain Nuts A Very Loose Canon of American Humor', published 2004 under ISBN 9780060516260 and ISBN 0060516267.
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