Comedy bang! bang! The podcast (the book)

Book - 2023

"In Comedy Bang! Bang!: The Podcast: The Book, Scott Aukerman transports readers inside the zany world of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast. The book features brand-new anecdotes and opinions from the show's wild cast of recurring characters, and matches the show in tone and wackiness, with essays, lists, plays, nods to running bits, and four-color illustrations throughout, helping to bring the zany, satirical, undefinable world of Comedy Bang! Bang! to life in new and surprising ways!"--

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Subjects
Genres
Humor
Published
New York : Abrams Image 2023.
Language
English
Item Description
Podcast tie-in.
Physical Description
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781419754814
9781419770296
  • Introduction by the Editor
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda's Introduction
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic's Rebuttal to the Introduction
  • Tatiana Maslany's Preface to the Foreword
  • Bob Odenkirk's Foreword
  • Patton Oswalt's Foreword to the Preface
  • Jack Quaid's Preface
  • Bill Walton's E-Mails
  • A Word from Scott Aukerman
  • Reggie Watts's Comedy Bang! Bang! Sheet Music
  • Fourvel's "Tips for Making It Through This Fucking Book!"
  • Bob Ducca's To-Do List
  • Longo Watch Repair Ad
  • Alimony Tony's Personal Ad
  • Italiano Jones's Bus Ad
  • Werner Herzog's Yelp Review
  • Randy Snutz's "A Night of Scandalous Duplicity"
  • Stu and Amber's Texts
  • The Calvins' Family Bee Honey Taffy Farm and Horse Fighting Ranch Pamphlet
  • Ben Schwartz's "Solo Bolo Origins"
  • Big Chunky Bubbles's Children's Party Review
  • Francesco Bolognese's "Tips for Travel in Italy"
  • Col Solomon's "My Story"
  • Jeffrey Characterwheaties "In His Own Words"
  • Bean Dip's "Guide to a Successful Business"
  • The Battle of Good vs. Evil
  • Classic Jarles's Letter to Parents
  • Bob Ducca's "Contents of Overnight Bag" List
  • Doug Gropes's Email
  • "Have You Seen Our Granddaughter?"
  • Martin Sheffield-Lickley's Setlist & Family Tree
  • Fourvel's "Tips for Curing Boredom"
  • Al A. Peterson's Classified Ad
  • Scott Aukerman's "The Show Where We Talk to Interesting People"
  • Andy Samberg's "Hollywood Facts" Board Game
  • Entrée PeeE Neur's "So You Want to be an Inventor"
  • Dalton Wilcox's Poem
  • The Bachelor Brothers' Records Talent Sheet
  • Margery Kershaw's Ranger Log
  • Memphis Kansas Breeze's Tour Poster
  • Sprague the Whisperer's TV Pitch
  • Little Dammit Man's Wanted Poster
  • Kayla Dickie's "Do's and Don'ts When Dating Men in Montrose, Colorado"
  • Dr. Sweetchat's Advice
  • Bob Ducca's List of Inner Childhood Ailments
  • Paul Rust's "New No-No's" Journal
  • Chief's Log
  • "Santa Explains It All for You"
  • Ho Ho's "How to Always Be Naughty"
  • Morpheus the Dream Lord's Storybook
  • Gino Lombardo's Diary & "True Heroes of Long Island"
  • Stanley Chamberlin's "Guide to Physical Therapy Pamphlet"
  • Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's JCS Rap
  • Power Wheels Beth's "Extremely Awesome Features of a Power Wheels"
  • Bob Ducca's Medical Chart
  • Marissa Wompler & Charlotte Listler's Recipes
  • John Lennon's Beatles 7 Review
  • Darren Matichek's "Top Ten Favorite Bobblehead"
  • Margie Donk's Book Excerpt
  • Leo Karpatze's Ickypedia Entry
  • Bill Carter's "Workout of a Lifetime"
  • Fourvel's "People I Have Moidered in Cold Blood"
  • Jack Furz's "What We Know About The Nite Wolf"
  • Judge Heaux Brown's Court Docket
  • Brock Lovett's "The Top 5 Wettest Treasures Still Unfound"
  • Albert Roe's Kissy's Grocery Store Circular
  • Bob Ducca's List of Heroes
  • Todd's Diary
  • Logan Conley's Memorandum
  • Dash Grabum's Pokeydex
  • Rudi North's Throat Punch Informational Card
  • Harris's Foam Corner
  • Fourvel's "Tips for Living a Happy and Healthy Life"
  • Ernie Bread's Dedication
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgmentsd
Review by Kirkus Book Review

The companion book to the zany comedy podcast. Devotees will love the origin stories and comedy bits from the series' beloved characters, and the collection's creative structure may land the show some new fans as well. It's impressive how effectively podcast host Aukerman and his gang of high-powered friends and contributors--Reggie Watts, Andy Samberg, Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, et al.--can tell a funny story. The comedy comes through sheet music, dating tips, park ranger logs, role-playing-game character synopses, lists of medical maladies, and a host of other hilariously oddball material. Samberg delivers the goods in the guise of a "Hollywood Facts" board game, where we get numerous zingers--e.g., "What did Robert De Niro say after filming his 'you talkin' to me?' scene in Taxi Driver (1976)? ANSWER: 'I doubt anyone will ever parody THAT!' " In "So You Want To Be an Inventor: A Note From Entrée PeeE Neur," Saturday Night Live star Ego Nwodim provides advice for prospective inventors: "Anytime you come up with an invention, there will be haters….If you haven't heard of something, it simply doesn't exist." Comedian Mike Hanford pretends that John Lennon is still alive and infuses a fake review of the Beatles' greatest hits package, with loads of impossibilities like Geena Davis playing harmonica on "From Me to You," or Lennon picking up a radiologist named Val on Madonna's Ray of Light tour. It's almost sentimental to think of Lennon living a more pedestrian rock star life rather than being murdered. Of course, the text quickly follows that section with crass jokes about fictional bobbleheads, so that warm feeling won't last long. After all, this book is meant to be an extension of the Comedy Bang! Bang! world, so it purposefully stays within the orbit of that kind of humor. Aukerman's podcast companion broadens the proven Comedy Bang! Bang! formula but doesn't dive much deeper. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.