I love humor, and the more demented the better
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I have been a fan of Mr. Bevans since CF I. I love humor, and the more demented the better, I cannot say enough good things about this book. Any tabletop gamer will love this as well as fans of fantasy rpgs in general. Once you read you cannot unread and you will laugh almost on every page.
2766482
I'm picky about what I read and often stop reading books after a few chapters.  If I'm not loving them, they're not worth the time.  I like 'em smart and humorous, and this one was a hoot.  I laughed out loud several times, but the big, stupid smile on my face for the entirety of my wait at the doctor's office was rather embarrassing. Couldn't be helped. The book's really freaking funny.
1770221
Are you demented?  Do you have a sick sense of humor?  If so, you would probably really enjoy this collection of animated shorts.  I had actually attended one of the Sick and Twisted animation festivals about a year ago, and I personally enjoyed the (way) off-the-wall cartoons.  However, if you are thinking of purchasing this for younger viewers, think again.  With such shorts as "Horndog" and "How to Make Love to a Woman" or even better, "Rick the Dick", you're looking at some very mature content that should really only be viewed by people old enough to not let the language bother them, but young enough to still appreciate jokes about flatulence and explicite animated sex (like me!).  Oh yes, and do be aware of the fact that there is full-frontal nudity of both men and women characters on this DVD.  Okay, that's about it.  END
1982498
I've been a fan of Carlin's since I was in high school in the late 60's. I love his biting cynicism and sarcasm, as well as his keen intellect and sharp perception of the good and bad aspects of the modern human.  I, too, do not suffer fools gladly, and love to laugh (better than crying) at the foibles of human nature.  However, I have noticed that GC has gotten a bit angrier as he ages.  Perhaps the loss of his wife left him wounded, perhaps he's just getting older and less tolerant (I can relate to that!).  But I just try to overlook that and laugh at the GC I love best.  Therefore, I laughed out loud at almost every page of this book.  Sure, some of it is "used" material, and sometimes his rants seem a bit overdone, but I laugh each time I hear him or read him, and so I don't care.  Maybe I'm a bit (okay, a lot) cynical and crusty myself, so I can forgive George for it.  He still can make me laugh at myself and at all my fellow human beings.  If more of us listened to what he was really saying, we might be a bit better off.  The classic satirist, GC is least appreciated by those he makes the most fun of -- the "trendy, fruity" ones among us who can't bear to see themselves as they really are! (He must be talking about someone else!)
4273806
I love Larry Miller.  Ever since I heard his "Five Levels of Drinking" years ago, and his comment that woman is the most powerful magnet in the universe and all men are cheap metal, well, I knew we had found a mind that could tell the funny truth.  This is not a simple thing.  Most of what is passed off as comedy is just awful and obscene twaddle that gets laughs by punching the audience in the gut.  The laughs are more explosive exhalations than expressions of delight and joy.  Miller brings delight and joy.

And he can write.  This is another talent that is not pulled off easily.  Most books by comics are not funny.  It is one thing to get a microphone, stand on a stage, and curse at people for an hour.  Writing it down is similar to being drunk, coming up with profound insights and writing them down for humanity.  The next day, if you can even read the writing, you are embarrassed at what you wrote.  How can it be that this wonderful insight is inane and too stupid for a twelve year old to take seriously?  Well, the power of booze to addle the brain.  The point is, that saying funny things on stage is a much different talent than writing funny.  Miller can do both.  Although his stage act is more literary than most.

I don't know how much Miller drinks in real life, and maybe he milks that cow a bit much, but he uses language beautifully well and provides us things to enjoy on a few levels.  Let's start with the stories he tells.  They are funny.  Well, a few are poignant, but even there he gets some funny observations in along the way.  He even gets a few lines in that are quite memorable.  In discussing a friend of his who had been sober for quite awhile through the alcoholics anonymous program and then fell off the wagon and then got back on, he notes that his friend told him, "There is nothing worse than a bellyful of liquor and a head full of AA."  I am sure that is not original with Miller or his friend, but it is still a great line.  At another point Miller notes that, "money can't make stupid people smart, but it often makes smart people stupid".  I mean, AMEN.  You've seen this, right?  Even lived through it?

This book had me laughing out loud almost every page.  Another of its delights is Miller's making little references to old movies, political figures, Greek, Roman, and Hebrew writings, and literature (Dickens more than once).  You will just read over them if you don't know what he is referring to, but it is quite nice the way he works in "with the same glee as Madame De Farge waiting for the next blade to fall" when discussing his delight at watching little league foul balls land on the cars in the parking lot (including his own).  This makes for fun reading because you can keep your brain on and this makes laughing even more joyful.  When your brain is awake and can still find that things are funny, well, it doesn't get much better.

The book covers many delightful topics including the aforementioned drinking (with the official version of the "Five Levels of Drinking"), teaching his kids that Lou Costello is funny (great parenting advice, by the way), Brooks Brothers (his preference) versus Saks (his wife's preference), indoor golfing against a newly and expensively plastered wall, Moses discussing the absolute ban on adultery with God for those 40 days, wishing Merry Christmas (from the point of view of a Jew - as he puts it), and a lot more including a wonderfully touching story about his old friend in comedy, Jerry Allen, who died too young.  Of course, one might argue that dying at any age is too young, but we know that under forty or thirty or twenty is really too young.

This is one great read and it is so much fun to laugh even though the people around you might make rude comments.  Of course, I don't read much comedy (for the reasons I mention above), but this is REALLY good.

Enjoy!
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I pick this book back up when I need a laugh and a new look at the world. It makes me laugh and it makes me want to try harder to be a hedonist. I have a start but I'm too American I think to go all in. But I want to. Bad. And this book makes me want to even more.
650779
God, this thing made me howl with laughter at least once in damn near every chapter/post. Fair warning, though: if you are one of those stick-up-the-butt prudes who hate profanity and toilet humor, or if you are a sensitive arteest who takes yourself too seriously, YOU WILL HATE THIS BOOK.

Now, that's not to say I didn't wince in self-recognition a time or two. But those winces made me think. Which is always a good thing for a professional penmonkey.

And yes, I now consider myself a pen monkey.  Happy now, Chuck?

Angela Knight
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I am embarrassed to say that I am a total VEEP addict.  For the life of me I can't understand why I laugh so hard at such gross vile stuff and such mean-spirited characters.  I try not to think about it.  I just laugh.  And laugh.  And...
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I love this book, and could not put it down.  If you have a sick sence of humor and lived in the 70's and collect toys, don't miss this book. If you have a sick mind, don't miss it either. I wish there were more books like this.
4623956
I'm cursed by the cable gods. The really great shows I really love, Dead Like Me, Arrested Development, and Firefly get axed. Dead Like Me is one of those rare shows that will have you laughing that hearty laughter that picks you up, drops you on the floor and kicks you in the ribs. It's too cussy, but I have to admit the prolific use of the F word is horribly funny at times. I love the situational humor, produciton quality, human issues, and the general indifference of "Peanut" as demonstrated by her everlasting scowl. I appreciated that the gore is usually inferred and not graphic.
1723686
I laughed out loud while reading YOU ARE DEAD (SIGN HERE) not once...not twice...but many times. In many ways this book reminded me of the irreverent humor of Douglas Adam's. The superciliousness of bureaucracy is the bane of many an existence and those set up by the reams of paper it takes to get through life will appreciate what it could take to get through death, also.
4585286
PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST COMEDIC SHOWS EVER.  I HAVE WATCHED SO MANY RE-RUNS I GOT TIRED OF LOOKING FOR SCHEDULED BROADCASTS AND BOUGHT THE SET.  I LAUGH AT THEM ALL EACH TIME.  I REALLY ENJOY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE VOICES.  AND AT MY AGE, THIS AND CHEERS MAY BE ALL I NEED TO STAY LAUGHING.  ALL THE LINES AND PLOTS SEEM NEW FROM DAY TO DAY
4381307
I laughed out loud so much while reading this novel, which is amazing considering some of the really dead-on depressing stuff depicted here about cross sections of our current culture.  While it spins into absurdity toward the end,  I thought it was a fun romp, and the characters are real enough.  It's tempting to think they're exaggerations, except I KNOW people just like them--scary stuff, but rather than cower in the corner at the reality, this book made me shake with laughter.  Super fun (and intelligent) read!
443288
Seriously, I don't know how Mich more of this fatalistic, self deprecation with regards to him as a member of the human race.  If anything, he's made me more happy that we have such huge, throbbing brains, but also much more guilty.  MOO FANGOO to you! Mr Vonnegut!
579833
Admittedly, there's not a lot here that's not on this guy's web page, but I bought it anyway and am glad to support him. These crack me up, and it's like a lot of things I laugh at: I could come up with something like this if I were more clever, but I'm not. I only hope there are more of these.
3697781
I found the book very lighthearted and wryly entertaining - at times reminiscent of a couple Monty Python sketches about death.  And occasionally laugh out loud funny.  Dave is not the traditional hero fighting grim death as in the normal horror books.

I look forward to books 2 and 3
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I love the humor and character interaction. Great stuff :)