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The Best Comedy Books of 2024
The most delightful, thought-provoking, educational, and just all in all funny.
Birds Aren’t Real is presented as an exposé full of “proof” that the batshit theory is true, and the authors keep it up for the entire length of a book, creating some remarkable satire of the maddeningly toxic philosophy that unfortunately frames this current age. As he lets the oblivion that we all fear wash over him, Rich weaves very funny and achingly honest stories from unlikely characters, like a middle-age Mario dealing with severe back pain and a judgmental Luigi, or his own descendant interviewing him, in the future, about his mundane life. Firesign Theatre, an L.A.-based artistic collective led by Peter Bergman that specialized in radio and LPs, made a string of lowbrow-meets-highbrow projects in the early ’70s that spoke to the countercultural generation’s stark differences from their parents.
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