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Summary: Talk about a one-joke idea . . .
Review: "Rough Draft" is amusing for the first page or two, but it quickly becomes stale and repetitive. It's basically one joke repeated over and over and over. It reads as if the writers made a list of pop culture icons, shouted them out at each other, and then shouted out the first incongruous ideas that popped into their heads ("Mister Rogers!" -- "Tank top!") Very few of the ideas are clever, witty, or chuckle-inducing.
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Summary: Talk about a one-joke idea . . .
Review: "Rough Draft" is amusing for the first page or two, but it quickly becomes stale and repetitive. It's basically one joke repeated over and over and over. It reads as if the writers made a list of pop culture icons, shouted them out at each other, and then shouted out the first incongruous ideas that popped into their heads ("Mister Rogers!" -- "Tank top!") Very few of the ideas are clever, witty, or chuckle-inducing.
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Summary: Popular culture was never so funny
Review: 'Rough Draft' continues in the style perfected by the National Lampoon in the seventies and eighties, making fun of the culture that surrounds us all the time (and who's producers take it so seriously).Like the Lampoon, this well produced book, mimics that culture with wicked results. Page 57 has a shampoo called ''Gee, Your Hair Smells Like Shampoo'', the makers were concerned with truth in personal hygiene packaging, on page 65 novelist Stephen King tried his hand at technical writing by doing the Operating Instructions for the Sony Betamax recorder.
All the graphic material is beautifully produced, down to the barcode on the cover of 'J The Jerry Srpinger Magazine'. It is this kind of detail that makes 'Rough Draft' so funny and special. I'm waitng for the sequel.
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Summary: Laughs on every page
Review: A very funny book from the very funny website. It's filled with smart pop culture parody, from Dr. Seuss ("The Salmon that Cheats at Backgammon") up through Harry Potter (with a PlayStation logo tattooed on his forehead). Also hilarious bits on Star Trek, Britney Spears, Sex and the City, Do the Right Thing, the Indigo Girls, Madonna and Hunter S. Thompson. Not every single gag works, but the hits far outweight the misses.
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Summary: Modern Humorist has done it again!
Review: After the brilliant "My First Presidentiary", I thought that the boys at MH couldn't top themselves. I was wrong. If mass market paperbacks in the just over 100 page range get funnier than this, I'm not sure I can take it.
I hear MH has a book in the work about America. This should be good, folks.
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Summary: Very funny
Review: I disagree with the reader from Georgia. God bless Modern Humorist.
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Summary: Extremely disappointed
Review: I have to agree with a previous reviewer that this book is far too vulgar. I am 27 years old and I ordered this book as a Christmas gift for my younger brother. We both enjoy absurd humor and I thought this book would be right up his alley. Just before I wrapped it up I decided to flip through it. Although there were some great jokes (for example, a hilarious picture of Robert Urich as the original choice for Punky Brewster) there were far too many that pushed the limits of acceptable humor, particularly the very crude sex jokes. The most offensive joke of all was the prototype box of "Lucky Charms". Instead of the usual leprechaun there was a cartoon depiction of a Catholic pope or bishop. In his hand was a chalice of what any Catholic would recognize as the consecrated Communion wine from Mass--for Catholics the sacred Blood of Jesus. The cartoon character was carelessly sloshing it around, with drops spilling out of the chalice. As a Catholic, I was deeply offended. The Eucharistic Body and Blood of Jesus are extremely sacred to me, and to see the Blood of Christ portrayed in such a manner broke my heart. Unfortunately, crude sex jokes and anti-Catholicism are not likely to fade from popular culture anytime soon, but I certainly don't have to contribute to them by supporting this book. I returned my copy and I will have second thoughts about supporting Modern Humorist in the future.
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Summary: Nuanced and incredibly witty!
Review: I was moved to tears by how utterly hilarious this book was. There is nothing besides pop culture and history that provides such timeless fodder for intelligent humor.
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Summary: One of the Un-funniest books ever published
Review: Perhaps the concept is a bit thin to begin with--essentially, a book of unconnected jokes on pop culture from the fifties to the nineties. The humor here is barely college newspaper level, from cbeap wordplay ("Cabbage Patch Adults!") to just plain obvious ... Sending up pop-culture is a national pastime. You have to do a little better than this to warrant putting out a book.
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Summary: One of the Un-funniest books ever published
Review: Perhaps the concept is a bit thin to begin with--essentially, a book of unconnected jokes on pop culture from the fifties to the nineties. The humor here is barely college newspaper level, from cbeap wordplay ("Cabbage Patch Adults!") to just plain obvious (Brittany Spears wearing a tube top that says "ejaculate here"). Sending up pop-culture is a national pastime. You have to do a little better than this to warrant putting out a book.
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