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Surprisingly Serious Truths from a Seriously Silly Guy

Vacationland by John Hodgman

February 12, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

John Hodgman is many things: Daily Show correspondent, a “PC”, podcast guest and host, internet judge, former literary agent, and generally droll New England weirdo. He wrote several books prior to  Vacationland, and all of those books were collections of “facts”. I say “facts”, as that is what he might say as well: Hodgman (with the help of Jonathan Coulton) created three full books of completely made-up facts that he presented as being VERY true. They are a weird delight, and sometimes they are correct, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: Boston, brookline, Daily Show, family, growing up, humor, John Hodgman, john roderick, jonathan coulton, judge john hodgeman, maine, maximum fun network, New England, podcast, Show Business, summer, vacation, western mass, Yale

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: Boston, brookline, Daily Show, family, growing up, humor, John Hodgman, john roderick, jonathan coulton, judge john hodgeman, maine, maximum fun network, New England, podcast, Show Business, summer, vacation, western mass, Yale ·
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