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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100679753370
ISBN-139780679753377
eBay Product ID (ePID)686609
Product Key Features
Book TitleTrue Story
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year1994
GenreFiction
AuthorBill Maher
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-000554
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Anyone considering a career in stand-up comedy should read this book, then consider something else, because all this great stuff is over." -- Jerry Seinfeld "This is the novel I would have written about stand-up comedy if I was a sick egghead like Bill Maher." -- Roseanne "Crisp, funny, bitter and wise... Bill Maher really knows stand-up comedy." -- Steve Allen
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThe place: New York. The time: the early 1980s. The scene: the red-hot comedy clubs, very late at night. The cast: five would-be stand-ups, their gags, their egos, their girls. The result: True Story, the downright hilarious novel about trying to be funny for fame, fortune, and fornication. Only Bill Maher could've written True Story, so he did. The star of Comedy Central's Politically Incorrect and a regular guest on The Tonight Show, Bill Maher is today one of America's hottest comics. But not so long ago, when even gas stations ran comedy stages, Bill Maher was there, too; True Story is his report from the front, a stageside table at the birth of the comedy boom. You'll laugh in all the right places. Scout's honor. Swear. Hey, it's a True Story.