Do You Mind If I Cancel?

(Things That Still Annoy Me)

By: Gary Janetti

Narrated by: Gary Janetti

Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

"If you love storytelling in the style of David Sedaris, this audiobook - narrated by Janetti himself - is for you." (Yahoo Lifestyle)

This program is read by the author.

Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey...meet your new friend Gary Janetti.

Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is, now turns his skills into a hilarious, and poignant audiobook chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life.

Gary spends his 20s in New York, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phone all the time, and fantasizes, as we all do, about who to tell off when he finally wins an Oscar. As Gary himself says, "These are essays from my childhood and young adulthood about things that still annoy me."

Original, brazen, and laugh out loud funny, Do You Mind if I Cancel? is something not to be missed.

Praise for Do You Mind If I Cancel?:

"Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart." (Kevin Kwan)

"The writing of Gary Janetti, whether televised or tweeted, is famously incisive and sharp-tongued. What a revelation it was, therefore, to discover in these revealing personal essays an artist of great tenderness and vulnerability. And he's still funny as hell." (Armistead Maupin)

"It’s no surprise that Gary Janetti's book is laugh-out-loud funny. It is just as cutting, wild, and droll as I hoped." (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times best-selling author of Daisy Jones and the Six)

©2019 Gary Janetti (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart, I'm sure a jealous Prince George will decree that Gary be locked up in the Tower of London." (Kevin Kwan, New York Times best-selling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy)

“It’s no surprise that Gary Janetti's book is laugh-out-loud funny. It is just as cutting, wild, and droll as I hoped.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times best-selling author of Daisy Jones and the Six)

"Almost as soon as I began to read Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?, I found myself feeling the way I felt when I first encountered Fran Lebowitz and David Rakoff: laughing and wanting to shout out the best bits to whoever else was in the room, even if no one else was there. This crazy quilt of memoir, cultural history, one-liners aplenty, and periodic arias of hopefulness, frustration, and brashly rude rage, is a work of intertwined great humor and great feeling. I’ve already lost my copy, snatched up by its next eager reader.” (Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times best-selling author of Dreyer's English)

Hilarious and Brilliant

So self-aware, honest, and funny! I loved this book. Five more words needed yes

Witty and enjoyable!

I'm fortunate to not have known who Gary was before this book, so I had absolutely no expectations. And I am pleasantly pleased.

The stories, the narration, the sass with which each tale is delivered made this a very enjoyable listen.

Absolutely wonderful

Gary crafted a touching and hilarious memoir and I absolutely loved it. Listening to him read it as only Gary can is absolute perfection!

Hilariously poignant

Gary recounts the many profound milestones of his life with the dry humor and cutting snark you would expect, but also with brutal honesty of his coming of age moments. I am a huge fan so I loved every bit of it, and would recommend it without hesitation.

Terrible narration too distracting

I wish I would have just purchased the book. The voice sounds robotic - literally. I have seen Gary Janetti’s televisión appearances and the audiobook doesn’t sound like him at all. Almost as if he read a few paragraphs and a computer program used to to create audiobook. The book is hilarious, but I would skip the audio version

Feelings of a gay man once upon a time

It was hard to like in the beginning and then he got funny. Then I began to understand back in the day the struggle in his mind and how sad to not feel you fit in.

Hilarious

I found this book to be really hilarious. I would highly recommend it when you’re looking for a quick read

Is Gary the new David Sedaris?

Indeed he is! My only complaint about the book is that I wish it was longer. I finished listening in one sitting.

Hilarious

Funny cute quick read, more like a 3 hour funny podcast. Highly recommend if you want to laugh

Of very little substance.

Read in Gary Janetti's deadpan voice, I thought that the book would be more laugh inducing. The stories are of little substance, and are honestly kind of boring like he's writing an essay for eighth grade English. Would probably not recommend.