Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was

This book is unbelievably funny--especially the crude sex jokes! I made of giant color xerox of the Britney Spears poster even though my girlfriend doesn't think it's funny.This is the best humor book I've read since ITEMS FROM OUR CATALOG. I'm also a biog fan of MY FIRST PRESIDENTIARY. I can't wait to buy the next Modern Humorist book!

I disagree with the reader from Georgia. God bless Modern Humorist.

'Rough Draft' continues in the style perfected by the National Lampoon in the seventies and eighties, making fun of the culture that surrounds us all the time (and who's producers take it so seriously). Like the Lampoon, this well produced book, mimics that culture with wicked results. Page 57 has a shampoo called ''Gee, Your Hair Smells Like Shampoo'', the makers were concerned with truth in personal hygiene packaging, on page 65 novelist Stephen King tries his hand at technical writing by doing the Operating Instructions for the Sony Betamax recorder. All the graphic material is beautifully produced, down to the barcode on the cover of 'J The Jerry Springer Magazine'. It is this kind of detail that makes 'Rough Draft' so funny and special. I'm waitng for the sequel. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.

A very funny book from the very funny website. It's filled with smart pop culture parody, from Dr. Seuss ("The Salmon that Cheats at Backgammon") up through Harry Potter (with a PlayStation logo tattooed on his forehead). Also hilarious bits on Star Trek, Britney Spears, Sex and the City, Do the Right Thing, the Indigo Girls, Madonna and Hunter S. Thompson. Not every single gag works, but the hits far outweight the misses.

I was moved to tears by how utterly hilarious this book was. There is nothing besides pop culture and history that provides such timeless fodder for intelligent humor.