I'm Back for More Cash (Because You Can't Take Two Hundred Newspapers into the Bathroom) [Paperback]

Tony Kornheiser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 20, 2003

Tony Kornheiser is back. Within these pages, the celebrated Washington Post columnist, Pardon the Interruption cohost, and ESPN radio personality relates his experience as an OnStar user, the proud new owner of the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, and a “phone-a-friend” on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. And in between, he dishes political commentary on Monica and Bill and George W. and Al. New for the paperback edition is Tony’s final Washington Post Style column. So read all about his quest to fit into size 36 Dockers and his struggle to buy holiday gifts. And know that in the process you’re handing this Kornheiser guy way too much dough for these columns.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This book consists of over 100 fairly recent selections from the syndicated humor column that Kornheiser writes for the Sunday Washington Post. Kornheiser's gift as a humorist, honed over long experience, is such that he can make a story out of nothing and out of everything like buying something from infomercial pitchman Ron Popeil, wishing Bob Dole would shut up, attending a "guys only" high school reunion, or smearing his head with Rogaine (his previous collection of columns was Bald As I Wanna Be). L'Affaire Lewinsky and the Al Gore/George Bush election occupy a good portion of the book. Kornheiser keeps the reader in a more or less chucklesome mood most of the time, but even the best collections of newspaper columns lose something of their flavor and immediacy when put in book form, and this is no exception a lot of the material is old hat. Even so, the humorous invention provides considerable mirth, and the book, dipped into at judicious intervals, will help at a time when the national funny bone could stand some vigorous tickling. A.J. Anderson, GSLIS, Simmons Coll., Boston
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

“I’m Back for More Cash shows off the versatility, the wit and the self-deprecating style that have made his humor columns for the Post so popular.” —Associated Press

“A hoot . . . In bites of a thousand words or less, Kornheiser offers happenin’ zingers from the turn of the century, complete with rimshots and all the brio of Henny Youngman.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Villard Books (May 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812968530
• ISBN-13: 978-0812968538
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book is EPIC, May 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: I'm Back for More Cash: A Tony Kornheiser Collection Because You Can't Take Two Hundred Newspapers (Hardcover)

The T-Man from W-town, dude makes like George Lucas, reviving clauh-sic old material to finance frivolous hobbies like exterminating racoons and woodpeckers in his chimney.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE OF THE BLUE BALL!!!!, May 23, 2002

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This review is from: I'm Back for More Cash: A Tony Kornheiser Collection Because You Can't Take Two Hundred Newspapers (Hardcover)

I was at my local borders bookstore looking for this book but noticed that it was not in stock. From out of nowhere, an orange faced cape-wearing bald man appeared and saw me on the wing going to the counter to ask for help regarding the book. Screaming out of his cape came a behind-the-back pass of the book that landed softly in my well-manicured right hand. I easily laid the book up on the counter and paid for it with the greatest of ease. As I was exiting out of the book store, I pointed at the caped curmudgeon --- AFFIRMATION!!!!

46 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is so CLAH-SIC!, January 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: I'm Back for More Cash: A Tony Kornheiser Collection Because You Can't Take Two Hundred Newspapers (Hardcover)

This book is so EPIC! Dude took a bunch of his columns and had them all put into a hardcover book! That's so CLAH-SIC! Rack him!