the funny thing is... - Ellen DeGeneres

 

 

 

 

the funny thing is...

by elle degeneres

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publisher Comments:

 

Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have one, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book.

 

After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a book that is both easy to use and very funny. Along with her trademark ramblings, The Funny Thing Is...contains hundreds of succinct insights into her psyche, supplemented by easy-to-understand charts, graphs, and diagrams so that you'll never miss a joke.

Overseeing all aspects of production, DeGeneres labored over details both significant and insignificant, including typefaces, page number placement, and which of the thousands of world languages to use. Ultimately she selected English, as it's her mother tongue, but translations into Hindi and Pig Latin are already in the works.

DeGeneres takes an innovative approach to the organization of her book by utilizing a section in the beginning that includes the name of each chapter, along with a corresponding page number. She calls it the Table of Contents, and she is confident that it will become the standard to which all books in the future will aspire.

Some of the other innovative features you'll find in this edition:

• More than 50,000 simple, short words arranged in sentences that form paragraphs.

• Thousands of observations on everyday life -- from terrible fashion trends to how to

   handle seating arrangements for a Sunday brunchwith Paula Abdul, Diane Sawyer, and

   Eminem.

• All twenty-six letters of the alphabet.

Sure to make you laugh, The Funny Thing Is...is an indispensable reference for anyone who knows how to read or wants to fool people into thinking they do.

Review:
"DeGeneres is in top form with her second collection of kooky observations." Entertainment Weekly

Review:
"Degeneres is a delight." Publishers Weekly

Synopsis:
The comic superstar and New York Times bestselling author returns to the page with another hilarious tour de force — published to coincide with the launch of her new, nationally syndicated talk show.

 

Ellen DeGeneres's first book, My Point...and I Do Have one, was an instant national bestseller that spent more than six months on the New York Times bestseller list.

 

DeGeneres has won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and a People's Choice Award for her work as a writer and actress on her television series Ellen, and received Emmy nominations as host of the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, as an executive producer of HBO's If These Walls Could Talk 2, and as star and executive producer of her critically acclaimed one-woman HBO special The Beginning. DeGeneres made history when her on-screen persona Ellen Morgan became the first openly gay leading character on television, but her groundbreaking legacy had already begun in 1986, on the Tonight Show, when she became the first and only female comic invited by Johnny Carson to sit down with him after her stand-up performance. In September 2003, DeGeneres launched The Ellen DeGeneres Show, her own nationally syndicated daytime talk show.

 

 

 

A message from the author --

The brunch bunch --

That's why prison wouldn't be so bad --

My most embarrassing case scenario --

God, what a day! --

Gift exchange, or, the art of believable acting --

Silence is golden--

Making your life count (and other fun things to do with your time!) --

This is how we live --

Penny-pinching for today's gal, or, how to land a man --

Working it out --

Smartishness --

The things that are bothering me this week --

My dad was like a father to me --

The serious chapter --

The controversial chapter --

The chapter of apologies --

Dear diary --

A scientific treatise regarding a matter of great entomological concern to all of us --

It's just an ｅxpression --

Clothes I have regretted wearing --

Naming my book: The odyssey --

That was then or then was that or anyway, it was before now --

Ellen's personal home tour --

Things to be grateful for --

My self-conscious, or check me out! --

The last chapter --

Bonus chapter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0743247612-7&partner_id=26764

 

 

http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0743247612.asp

 

 

http://ellen-degeneres.piranho.com

 

 

 

 

 

Ellen DeGeneres in Person

 

 

http://ellen.warnerbros.com

 

 

 

 

Ellen DeGeneres on stage

 

 

http://www.ellen-degeneres.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://jakepeterson.net/ellen