Bill Maher

True Story (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher's debut novel about the wild and crazy life of the stand-up comediana bawdy, rowdy tell-all report from the front line.

Set in New York, circa 1979, in the late-night, neon-lit comedy clubs when the comedy boom was just heating up, True Story features five would-be comics, their shticks, their chicks, their rampant egos. These guys are desperate for celebrity, desperate for money, andwhat else?desperate to get laid. Which means they're also required to become "road comics," shacking up in low-rent condos provided by sleazy club owners as the comedy scene spreads to the heartland in the early '80s.

The result is a hilariously funny novel about the peculiar world of stand-up, where the ultimate prizes are fame, fortune, and fornication -- and the ultimate aspiration is, quite simply, to be laughed at. With perfect-pitch delivery, in classic sardonic style, Maher gives us a bona fide look at these resilient comedians and the scumbag promoters, hostile audiences, and die-hard groupies who make up their warped and twisted world.

Only Bill Maher could have written True Story. And lucky for us he did. Because True Story is hilarious. It's offensive. At times it's even touching. So sit back as Maher puts you stage side at the very birth of the comedy boom. You'll laugh in all the right places. Hey, it's a True Story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743293419
• Artikelnr.: 49185247

Autorenporträt

Before hosting Real Time on HBO for the last twenty-one years, Bill Maher created and hosted Politically Incorrect on ABC. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
The Act You're Not Good Enough to See
More Green, Asshole
It's a Living Hell, but It's a Living
Show Me the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, and Somewhere There's a Guy
Who's Tired of Fucking Her
Good Evening, Ladies and Geniuses
Love Is When You Don't Feel Shitty After You Come
The Work Isn't Bad -- but the Hour!
No Set, No Hamburger
Loyalty Is a One-way Street
The Nice-Ass Act of 1980
You Better Be a Winner in This Business, Because if You're Not, It's Shit
It's Easy to Do Great, It's Hard to Be Great
When Opportunity Knocks, All Some People Do Is Complain About the Noise
People: The Problem That Won't Go Away
I Dreamed I Went to See Mort Sahl, and He Was Doing Dog-and-Cat Material
When You Can't Light the Joint, You're Stoned Enough
The Power of Negative Thinking
The Sweet Stench of Success
Epilogue: The Future Isn't What It Used to Be