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Who Stole the Funny?: A Novel of Hollywood
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Science FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9780061245008
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Published: Aug 28 2007
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A Hollywood insider draws from his four decades of experience to create a scathingly brilliant and caustically comedic bird's-eye view behind the scenes of comedy television.
A wickedly delicious roman-a-clef about the making of a sitcom called My Urban Buddies, this satirical romp of a novel portrays life on the other side of the television lens, hilariously sending up self-serious Hollywood stereotypes across the board.
Programmed-for-success director J. T. Baker has to bring an up-and-coming sitcom to fruition after its initial director shoots himself in the head with a nail gun. Comically annotated with helpful and enlightening Hollywood glossary terms (Creative-type director: One who has no hope of working in this town again; Eccentric: Affecting a style of dress, coiffure, speech, mannerisms, etc., carefully calculated to give the impression of creative credibility), Benson creates an exaggerated world of crazy writers; backstabbing executives, agents, and producers; foul-mouthed everyone-elses; and hardcore cynics--and the ridiculous inner monologues behind them.
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