Openly Bob
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688151205 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Disappointing A Customer Bob is a more talented stand-up comic than he is a writer (unfortunately, being one doesn't automatically make you the other). The only humor lies in forced one-liners linked together by an over-edited, uncompelling narrative -- the author is obviously writing for the stage, not the page. Pass it up, you won't miss a thing.. Laugh out Loud Funny If you have heard or read David Sedaris and liked him, my guess is you will really fall for Bob Smith. Funny and engrossing, this is a book to buy!. A clean-cut all-American gay boy can be funny? Yes very! The clean-cut all-American boy Bob Smith was probably an altar boy (as well as being an alter-boy). The son of a heavy-drinking New York State trooper and a devoutly Catholic mother, he grew up in Buffalo. The book begins and ends with visits to his hometown, accompanied by his life-partner Tom. They also visit Tom's parents in their Florida retirement home, survive a hurricane that strikes Provi
From bringing your boyfriend home to your father's funeral, to being the only gay couple at a family wedding, to surviving couples counseling, Smith's unique point of view on the very ordinary events of our lives resonates with keen observation and hilarious truth.Sex education, meteor showers, lesbian ventriloquist dummies, flea-market shopping, body piercing, pot-smoking drag queens, environmental correctness, Judgment Day, Samuel Beckett, Newt Gingrich, Coco Chanel, Sigmund Freudnothing and no one has been spared Bob Smith's incisive
His jokes aren't funny because he's gay; his jokes are funny because they're funny. "We had sex less frequently. Finally, our relationship stopped other people, gay or straight, from wanting to have sex." Bob Smith's wit and intelligence, which garnered Openly Bob a 1998 Lambda Literary Award, will make him an equally appealing humorist to both gay and straight readers. Bob Smith writes about topics that are standard elements of almost any actor-humorist's repertoire: family visits, early jobs, auditions for parts, and the ups and downs of r