Here's a great way to spend Black Friday, instead of rising at 3:00 a.m. to freeze your ass off, survive seven near-fistfights with desperate people who need those whorishly trendy "must-haves" just a little more than you do, and wait patiently while your child gets his or her turn sitting on Cthulu's lap and telling him all that their greedy little dark hearts crave.
Spend it laughing!
Not just laughing at what everyone else fills their diapers over, but what the great comedians themselves laugh at – or rather, whom.
Try a helping of IN THEIR FACES: COMEDY BEYOND THE BOX, UP TO LENNY BRUCE
As a life-long lover and student of comedy, I've put together a few pungently poignant essays about that very subject. Some will make you smile, some will make you sit and contemplate why you're smiling.
Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, The Firesign Theater and the Martin Luther of Political Incorrectness himself, W.C. Fields are among the iconoclasts highlighted in this journey among many – though not all – great "Comedians' Comedians!"
After the stuffing, pile on a heap of comic dressing and a ladle of laughter. You might just forget to nap, but remember, there's pie!
In paperback and e-reader format.
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