A Load of Hooey - A Collection of New Short Humor Fiction (Standard format, CD)

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 ( 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. "