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Based on a True Story: A Memoir (edição 2016)

por Norm Macdonald (Autor)

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Biography & Autobiography. Essays. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Driving, wild and hilarious (The Washington Post), here is the incredible memoir of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran.
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When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre one step below instruction manuals. Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, Call it anything you damn like..… (mais)
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Título:Based on a True Story: A Memoir
Autores:Norm Macdonald (Autor)
Informação:Spiegel & Grau (2016), 256 pages
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  atrillox | Nov 27, 2023 |
If the entire book consisted of nothing but the chapter where Norm goes to prison for attempting to pay a hitman to murder Dave Attell so he can win the love of Sarah Silverman it would still be 5 stars. I’ll leave you with some of my favourite quotes which will definitely spoil some lines worth discovering on your own, I offer them simply as a reminder to those who have already read it that they should promptly reread it. From a child with terminal cancer having the secret wish to club a baby seal to Adam Eget jerking off punks and hooking up with a woman who is almost certainly a 6”4 guy in drag, the book never has a dull moment.

“I was born in the Great White North and I remain to this day a Canadian citizen and I will till the day I die. I’ll tell you why. Canada is the country that shaped me, that taught me right from wrong, that turned me from a boy to a man. Also, that American citizenship test is way, way too hard. Trust me, I’ve tried it quite a few times. But no more. You know the old saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me thrice, shame on Adam Eget, pretending to be me and failing even worse; fool me four times, shame on the guy behind the desk at the Immigration and Naturalization office, who said he would see what he could do for a hundred clams and then said that he couldn’t do a damn thing but kept the hundred clams anyway; fool me five times, shame on the filthy homeless bum who could rattle off all the presidents in less than a minute but then the moment I gave him twenty dollars to do the test in my stead took off running down the street with a whoop and a holler; fool me six times, shame on me again, for threatening to burn down the federal building in New York City if I wasn’t given citizenship immediately. There would be no seventh time. Nobody ever accused this old country boy of being stupid.”

“I relax in my big hotel bed as I reflect on my life and career. This turns out to be a huge mistake. Anxiety begins to crawl across my motionless body like a spider. So, instead, I begin to reflect on the life and career of Adam Sandler. This calms me.”

“Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.”

“And so it went with Rodney Dangerfield. It reminded me of that line in the Scriptures: “What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world but don’t get no respect, no respect at all? Are you kidding me?”

“I will say this about the young boy in the tiny white coffin. Despite the doctor’s dire predictions, the boy was too tough, resolute, and courageous to let something as small as a deadly disease defeat him. No, the boy was made of stronger stuff than that and it took much more to defeat him. It took a three-ton municipal bus moving at forty miles per hour and driven by one Cecil Richard Anderson to defeat this boy.”

“Immediately, Adam Eget is on his hands and knees with his head underneath the couch, searching for the amyl nitrite as a swine would truffles.”



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  theoaustin | May 19, 2023 |
Silly but funny ( )
  DonJuanLibrary | Mar 9, 2023 |
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  ByronDB | May 17, 2022 |
The audiobook is hilarious and read by norm himself, but I read a review that says its style is based on classic books.
*Okay, I read the physical book and its great. This is the only book that made me laugh. I don't think I've ever audibly laughed from a book. I guess I'll have to read classic books to see the connection. ( )
  JeffJenkins | Dec 19, 2021 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Essays. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Driving, wild and hilarious (The Washington Post), here is the incredible memoir of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran.

When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre one step below instruction manuals. Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, Call it anything you damn like..

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