• Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg

  • One Comedian's Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World
  • By: Todd Barry
  • Narrated by: Todd Barry
  • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (336 ratings)

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Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg

By: Todd Barry
Narrated by: Todd Barry
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From the veteran comedian and actor from The Wrestler and Louie comes a hilarious book of travel essays from his time on tour through secondary markets in the US, Canada, and Israel.

Hello. It's Todd Barry. Yes, the massively famous comedian. I have billons of fans all over the world, so I do my fair share of touring. While I love doing shows in the big cities (New York, Chicago, Cleveland), I also enjoy a good secondary market (Rochester, Springfield, Toledo). There's something great about performing in a place where they don't expect to see you. They're appreciative. They say things like "thank you for coming to Hattiesburg" as much as they say "nice show". And almost every town has their version of a hipster coffee shop, so I can get in my comfort zone.

My original plan was to book one secondary market show in all 50 states in about a year, but that idea was funnier than anything in my act. So, instead of all 50 states in a year, my agent booked multiple shows in a lot of states, plus Israel and Canada.

Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg is part tour diary, part travel guide, and part memoir. (Yes, memoir. Just like the thing presidents and former child stars get to write.) Follow me on my journey of small clubs and the occasional big amphitheater. Watch me make a promoter clean the dressing room toilet in Connecticut, see me stare at beached turtles in Maui, and see how I react when Lars from Metallica shows up to see me at a rec center in Northern California.

I'd love to tell you more, but I need to go book a flight to Evansville, Indiana.

©2017 Todd Barry (P)2017 Simon & Schuster Audio

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Todd's Delivery and Dry Wit Make This Great

What made the experience of listening to Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg the most enjoyable?

Listening to Todd tell his own story was a great choice. His delivery is flawless.

What other book might you compare Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg to and why?

Unlike some of the autobiographies of other comedians like Maron or Martin, Todd keeps his personal life mostly personal and focuses instead on the main theme of what it is like to play smaller and less famous venues--and the trials of getting to those places. Why do so many comedy clubs and venues give Todd inadequate dressing rooms with dirty bathrooms and no water? These are the questions that I hope will be answered in the next book!

Have you listened to any of Todd Barry’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have all of Todd's CDs and his performance in this book felt like a comedy show made just for me.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

"Always Ask For an Upgrade!"

Any additional comments?

If you are a comedy nerd or a Todd Barry fan, sit back and get ready to laugh.

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Todd Barry is a Legend.

Fantastic book, fantastic comedian. Hope he does more books in the future. Very entertaining and well written.

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Great read.

Good, quick read. It is a format that I assumed would be somewhat repetitive but I found the opposite to be true. It had a true feel of being "in on it" and behind the scene. Breaking the 4th wall. Most important...it was FUNNY!

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Kind of boring

Unless you like hearing about dirty toilets and fast food, this book is kind of lame

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Quintessential Todd Barry

If you like Todd Barry, you'll like this book! If you don't, well that's on you.

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Smirked and snickered

Todd Barry is mildly amusing in a low key and snarky type of delivery. Welcome to Hattiesburg is like listening to Todd read his Road Diary to you. Since I like him, it was a pleasure.

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Not what I was expecting or hoping for...

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I was anticipating the wry, dryly sarcastic observations that made me a Todd Barry fan. Instead it was just whiny and boring. I suppose he is just so un-prolific that he feels he has to save anything remotely humorous for his act. Definitely disappointed.

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Great book

Great book for any Todd Barry fan or comedy fan in general. I’m a comedian and I really enjoyed learning the ins & outs of the game.

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Spicy honey

Todd Barry is master of stand up… low-key and hilarious. I have all his albums and DVDs (streaming). Book is a fantastic look at life on road. On my short list of favorite audiobooks.

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