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Today's Comedy Does Not a Memoir Make... Just My Personal Opinion Of Course...

English: President Barack Obama tapes an interview for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., October 27, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)  Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment   and Isolation By Adam Resnick Having just reviewed a wonderful humorous children's book yesterday, I apologize for having it followed by this book...coincident? Not Quite...I was, though, amazed as to my reaction to both of them--polar opposites would be a kind way of phrasing it. Contrary to one of the reviewers listed below, I did force myself to finish the book--I had to. When Dave Letterman, whose show I've never watched, Jon Stewart and others judged the book to be wonderful, according to the back cover, surely one of them "could" be trusted... No, that's not the reason because I'm fully aware that this man has written a contemporary memoir filled with today's humor... For me, I'd