Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

by Scott Aukerman, Patton Oswalt (Foreword by), Bob Odenkirk (Preface by), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Introduction), "Weird Al" Yankovic (Introduction)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

THIS book, just like the podcast of the same name, is the epicenter of all that’s hot in comedy today. Why do you think “Bang! Bang!” has so many exclamation points in the title?

From Scott Aukerman and the comedic geniuses who created the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast comes a book that brings the chaotic, hilarious, and outrageous characters of the pod to the page

In Comedy Bang! Bang!: The Podcast: The Book, Scott Aukerman transports readers inside the zany world of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast. The book features brand-new anecdotes and opinions from the show’s wild cast of recurring characters, and matches the show in tone and wackiness, with essays, lists, plays, nods to running bits, and four-color illustrations throughout, helping to bring the zany, satirical, undefinable world of Comedy Bang! Bang! to life in new and surprising ways!

The book is curated by Aukerman and includes introductions, forewords, and prefaces by legends Patton Oswalt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bob Odinkirk, Tatiana Maslany, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and Jack Quaid. It also features pieces from Bobby Moynihan, Paul F. Thompkins, Ben Schwartz, Mary Holland, Andy Daly, Lauren Lapkis, Paul Brittain, Jessica McKenna, Ego Nwodim, and many more, all reprising roles of characters they’ve created for the podcast, taking readers even deeper inside the lives of these off-the-wall personalities. If you’ve ever enjoyed a Solo Bolo or wondered what makes Bob Ducca tick, this book is chock full of inside jokes, character studies, and hilarity!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419754814
Publisher:	Abrams Image
Publication date:	04/25/2023
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	5,488
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Scott Aukerman, the host and creator of Comedy Bang! Bang! is best known for his work on the 1990s HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show with Bob and David and creating and hosting the Comedy Bang! Bang! TV series, as well as cofounding the weekly Comedy Death-Ray stage show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Hollywood. He lives in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

2023-01-21
The companion book to the zany comedy podcast.

Devotees will love the origin stories and comedy bits from the series’ beloved characters, and the collection’s creative structure may land the show some new fans as well. It’s impressive how effectively podcast host Aukerman and his gang of high-powered friends and contributors—Reggie Watts, Andy Samberg, Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, et al.—can tell a funny story. The comedy comes through sheet music, dating tips, park ranger logs, role-playing-game character synopses, lists of medical maladies, and a host of other hilariously oddball material. Samberg delivers the goods in the guise of a “Hollywood Facts” board game, where we get numerous zingers—e.g., “What did Robert De Niro say after filming his ‘you talkin’ to me?’ scene in Taxi Driver (1976)? ANSWER: ‘I doubt anyone will ever parody THAT!’ ” In “So You Want To Be an Inventor: A Note From Entrée PeeE Neur,” Saturday Night Live star Ego Nwodim provides advice for prospective inventors: “Anytime you come up with an invention, there will be haters….If you haven’t heard of something, it simply doesn’t exist.” Comedian Mike Hanford pretends that John Lennon is still alive and infuses a fake review of the Beatles’ greatest hits package, with loads of impossibilities like Geena Davis playing harmonica on “From Me to You,” or Lennon picking up a radiologist named Val on Madonna’s Ray of Light tour. It’s almost sentimental to think of Lennon living a more pedestrian rock star life rather than being murdered. Of course, the text quickly follows that section with crass jokes about fictional bobbleheads, so that warm feeling won’t last long. After all, this book is meant to be an extension of the Comedy Bang! Bang! world, so it purposefully stays within the orbit of that kind of humor.

Aukerman’s podcast companion broadens the proven Comedy Bang! Bang! formula but doesn’t dive much deeper.

Kirkus Reviews