I really, really liked certain areas of this book, and skimmed through others. It basically depended on my interest in the interviewee. But I think there’s a good amount of interesting information in here for just about any fan of comedy. “There’s very little work where the work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.” Like Narfna said, this isn’t really a funny book — it’s a serious look at funny people. Judd Apatow gives us a bit of his own background, which […]
Not a funny book, but a book about being funny.
This was an overall interesting book full of conversations. It is not comedic itself but ABOUT comedy and the people who create it. So, if you’re going into the book expecting to laugh, you’re really setting both yourself and the book up for failure. This book isn’t for people looking for empty laughs, it’s for people looking to read sometimes very personal conversations about comedy behind the scenes, what it takes to do the work, how it effects comedians personally, what kind of person becomes […]