Mitch caps off the most lucrative stand up tour of all time with a performance at the Acropolis, but things get a little nutty when an AntiHA terrorist cell calling itself the Punchline Liberation Front shows up.

Endnotes:

1. Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon, Memoirs and Misinformation, (New York, Some Kind of Garden/Random House Large Print) p.53. Capsule Review: A pretty shocking behind the curtain peak at the typical life of a rubber faced buffoon turned box office boffo. Finally someone who’s not afraid to tell people how it really is. Slack Score: 3; Snark Score: 8; Overall FCA ranking #196
2. Sam Tallent, Running the Light (New YorkToo Big to Fail Press, 2020), p49-50, Capsule Review: I know Sam Tallent has publicly stated that this book is not autobiographical. That’s fine. I enjoy it as Billy Ray Schafer’s autobiography, whose autonomy I recognize. A one-week working roadtrip through Colorado of dead rooms and bad choices goes off the rails in spectacular fashion. Slack Score: 2; Snark Score: 11 Overall FCA ranking #29
3. Norm Macdonald, Based On a True Story, a Memoir, (Toronto, HarperCollins, 2016), p. 126. note: also cited in chapter 3; Capsule Review: Funny, of course. Well-paced, although I am suspicious that some of the anecdotes might have been exaggerated or even fabricated. Slack Score: 9 Snark Score: 15 Overall FCA ranking #9
4. Bob Saget, Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian by Bob Saget, (New York, It Books, 2014) p.37. Capsule Review: a deeply unwell grief document disguised as a guy doing 90 minutes of crowd work on his own childhood. Slack Score:12; Snark Score 6.5; Overall FCA Ranking: 622
5. Steven Wright, Harold, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 2023), p. 40, Capsule Review: Even more narrowly focussed than the other books in these notes, taking place in just one day in the life of a third grader, but let’s be real, Harold is Steven and vice-a versa. Beautifully written, surreal and detatched. Frequently funny but effortlessly so, as if by accident. Slack Score: 0, Snark Score: 15, Overall FCA ranking #64

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