The Funny Thing Is - Hardcover

DeGeneres, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743247612 ISBN 13: 9780743247610

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2003

Synopsis

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 brunch with PaulaAbdul, 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.

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Review:

"Entertainment Weekly" DeGeneres is in top form with her second collection of kooky observations....Her strongest assets -- a-hard won dignity and softly skewed worldview -- are on chuckle-inducing display throughout.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743247612
• ISBN 13: 9780743247610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192