One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever - Softcover

Modern Humorist

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609809792 ISBN 13: 9780609809792

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 2002

Synopsis

A hilarious, illustrated look at modern-day America examines the idiosyncracies, excesses, and behaviors that make the nation great, asking such questions as "Why is there a roller coaster inside a mall in Minnesota?" and "Why do Americans drive anti-personnel vehicles and euphemistically refer to them as SUVs?" Original. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Back Cover

“All of the grandeur of America has been condensed into one breathtaking book. That book is ‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman.” —Conan O’Brien

“Modern Humorist has produced a truly funny book about America. Just imagine what they could do to a stupid country. Like Finland.” —Mike Reiss, producer of “The Simpsons”

“I followed this handy guide to America and ended up in a nude pig-wrestling tournament in Guadalajara. VERY SCARY. My advice: Stay home, read the book, and have a lot of laughs.” —R.L. Stine, author of “Goosebumps”

From the Inside Flap

To many visitors, America seems like a frightening and bewildering place, filled with gun-toting yahoos, self-obsessed celebrities and really, really fat people. Modern Humorist s One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever reinforces these stereotypes, and gives you some brand new ones to enjoy.

Reviews

In this thin book of jokes about the American way of life-its food, people, leisure activities, etc.-the writers of Modern Humorist (John Aboud, Patrick Broderick, Michael Colton, Martha Keavney and others) use the conventions of a travel guidebook to say something about the strangeness and contradiction that is America. Unfortunately, they don't have much to report. Using pie charts, info-graphics, and bullet-points to underscore their gags, they tell us that America is violent, New York is full of Jews and Southern California is polluted. While a satirical publication such as the Onion uses a staid format to deliver jokes slyly, even subversively, the writers of Modern Humorist use the travel brochure template to place air quotes around their own material, effectively distancing themselves with a tone of faux-naivete. At its best, the humor of Modern Humorist exhibits a clever resilience; at its worst it feels patronizing.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609809792
• ISBN 13: 9780609809792
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144