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True Story: A Comedy Novel | [Bill Maher]
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True Story: A Comedy Novel

  • UNABRIDGED
  • by Bill Maher
  • Narrated by Bill Maher

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  • LENGTH
    2 hrs and 21 mins
  • RELEASE DATE
    01-01-05
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Publisher's Summary

Only Bill Maher, the star of Comedy Central's Politically Incorrect and a regular guest on The Tonight Show, could have written True Story...so he did. The place: New York. The time: the early 1980s. The scene: the red-hot comedy clubs, very late at night. The cast: five would-be stand-up comics, their egos, and their girls. The result: a downright hilarious novel about trying to be funny for fame, fortune, and fornication. This is Bill Maher's report from the front, a stageside table at the birth of the comedy boom. You'll laugh in all the right places.

©1994 by Bill Maher; (P)2005 Phoenix Audio

What the Critics Say

"This is the novel I would have written about stand-up comedy if I was a sick egghead like Bill Maher." (Roseanne)
"Anyone considering a career in stand-up comedy should read this book, then consider something else, because all this great stuff is over." (Jerry Seinfeld)

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    Tony Harrisonville, MO, USA 09-02-08
    Tony Harrisonville, MO, USA 09-02-08
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    "True story - lying description"

    Despite what it says this is not unabridged. It just leaves out a lot of the storylines that are in the book, here they are just mentioned and then dropped unresolved

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    steve kearny, NJ, United States 02-21-10
    steve kearny, NJ, United States 02-21-10 Member Since 2009

    An avid reader, who also loves to listen.

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    "A truly boring story...."

    Bill Maher is probably one of my favorite comedians of all-time so it pains me to say this but book didn't deserve to have been published. It has zero premise. It is pointless. It might be a true story but it's a true story about nothing and considering it's a story about comedians it's not funny at all. A complete disappointment right from the beginning and truthfully, I wouldn't even have finished it except I kept thinking it would get better... and sadly, it did not.

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    Adam Oak Ridge, NJ, United States 03-21-07
    Adam Oak Ridge, NJ, United States 03-21-07 Member Since 2000
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    "Sadly not that funny"

    I don't know what I was expecting but the end result certainly was not it. The stories of up-and-coming comedians working the lower rungs of the circuit was just slow and boring. About the most interesting thing about the book is the realization that all boring jobs are... boring.

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