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Interviews with Dead Celebrities [Kindle Edition]

Adam Avitable
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)

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Book Description

Darkly humorous, usually sarcastic, and always profane and offensive, Interviews with Dead Celebrities tears apart the pillars upon which we place celebrities, politicians, and entertainers with sharp social commentary in the form of interviews that are relentless in their pursuit of the raw, honest, (albeit completely fictional) truth.

Written by humorist and comedian Adam Avitable, this book asks the questions you've always wanted to know. Why did Whitney Houston throw away her good will for drugs? Did Osama bin Laden really hate America? Can Steve Jobs tell a joke? Does Joe Paterno care about children? Would John Hughes have written a sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

With over fifty posthumous interviews written entirely by Avitable, Interviews with Dead Celebrities will make you laugh, make you gasp, and may make you write him an angry letter telling him that he's evil for making you laugh.

Read interviews with the following celebrities and public figures: Peter Graves, Lucille Ball, Adolf Hitler, Phil Hartman, Ed McMahon, Zelda Rubinstein, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Sherman Hemsley, Jack Kevorkian, Barbara Billingsley, Corey Haim, Helen Keller, Leonard Stern, Osama bin Laden, Anna Nicole Smith, Gary Coleman, Heath Ledger, Patrick Swayze, Aaliyah, Tony Curtis, Greg Giraldo, Leslie Nielsen, Billy Mays, Brittany Murphy, George Carlin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bob Guccione, Amy Winehouse, Roy Scheider, Dick Clark, Mark Twain, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Novak, John Lennon, John Hughes, Amelia Earhart, Dennis Hopper, Michael Jackson, Oral Roberts, Farrah Fawcett, Walter Cronkite, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Jack LaLanne, Kim Jong Il, Whitney Houston, Andy Rooney, Ted Kennedy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Joe Paterno, Nora Ephron, JD Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Princess Diana, and Steve Jobs.

Adam Avitable is a blogger who has been writing at Avitable.com for thirteen years. He is a lawyer, a stand-up comedian, and a sucker for redheads. He loves bacon and chocolate but would give those up in a heartbeat just to make the world laugh until it collectively peed itself.


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About the Author

Adam Heath Avitable (1977-) is a comedian and a humorist from the Orlando area. He has been writing online since 1999 at Avitable.com and performing stand-up comedy since 2011.

His writing has been honored by the blogging community on multiple occasions and he has spoken and lectured on writing and humor throughout the United States. He was voted one of 2010's hottest bloggers and subsequently appeared in the 2010 Hot Blogger Calendar. He'll probably keep telling people that until he's dead.

Adam is also a lawyer who has never practiced law, but this doesn't stop him from providing completely erroneous and unsolicited legal advice to anyone within earshot. He got his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in Saint Louis and it's only slightly more useful than his Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Washington and Lee University, which he uses to try to seduce cute Japanese girls visiting Orlando. Unsuccessfully.

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  • File Size: 2875 KB
  • Print Length: 205 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1479171123
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B008ZK0VFG
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #455,228 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Customer Reviews

Good, quick read and just plain wrong on so many awesome levels! Dave B.  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
So you would have to buy the book, download it to your Kindle, then burn your Kindle. David Simmer II  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
I can't remember the last time I read a book and actually laughed out loud to myself. Shari  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Posthumous Humor August 19, 2012
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There are only three things guaranteed in life. You will be required to pay taxes, at some point you will die, but before that you will laugh your ass off at this book filled with posthumous humor!

While you may see other reviews citing this book as irreverent, or funny, or even on the cutting edge of after world journalism, I'd prefer to highlight it as an easy read, consumable in small bites if needbe or big bites if desired, while maintaining its laugh out loud potency the entire way through.

Looking forward to the sequels!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars PostHUMORous August 20, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
It is kind of sickness, in that whenever I hear of a celebrity death I immediately look forward to the Avitable interview.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Avitable wants me dead August 22, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
After I told Adam Avitable that I had bought his book, he said I should go review it and that, if I did, he'd interview me. Which I can only assume means that Adam Avitable wants me dead. And after I spent $3 on his book! He has a lot of nerve.

I have no idea how he gets all these interviews with famous dead people. I mean, I can assume that some dead people like Gary Coleman have agents for that sort of thing, but Hitler came way before agents. And Osama bin Laden? The guy was notoriously hard to get ahold of. I guess Adam has some sort of special underworld connections or something.

Anyway, it's pretty funny, until it gets offensive, which is like all Adam's humor, come to think of it. His humor is kind of like that salsa where you know it is going to burn you, but you keep eating it anyway because you have some sort of weird thing in your brain that keeps making you keep doing something even after you should have learned your lesson.

True story: I tried to give this thing five stars but Amazon would only let me select four. I suppose Avitable is on some kind of special star probation.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Who Doesn't Love A Good Celebrity Story?
One of the hardest things to come up with in life is an idea. A good idea. And never is that more apparent than in the writing of a book. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Suzy Soro
1.0 out of 5 stars There's no reason for this even to exist. Total waste of time.
I downloaded Adam Avitable's Interviews with Dead Celebrities for free -- and I still feel like he owes me money back for the time I wasted reading it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ray Anselmo
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and dirty just the way I like it.
So yeah a book of interviews with dead people by someone who is dead inside. But have faith it is a funnier book than the description makes it sound. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Timothy S. Murphy
3.0 out of 5 stars Not my sense of humor
I've definitely read worse, but this book just didn't hit my funny bone. 'Why?' was the question that came to mind, as in, why would you pretend to interview dead celebrities? Read more
Published 4 months ago by Karen B. Jung
1.0 out of 5 stars Stupid
This book is pointless and stupid. The vignettes are not funny. There is a kind of curiosity that grabs you and makes you look at another "interview" but in every case I... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Dean C. Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Morbid Hilarity At Its Finest!
I was given these word by my high school literature teacher, "Never fill your brains with useless fluff and junk literature. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Nicole M Wetherington
5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh out loud funny
These interviews are just wrong. But in a good way. You find yourself groaning and laughing at the same time. Nothing is held back and that's what is so entertaining.
Published 7 months ago by MLE
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Entertaining Reading
I'm not just saying this because I hope to have a favorable posthumous interview with Adam, but this is an excellent collection of his highly enjoyable online series. Read more
Published 8 months ago by P. Lynch
5.0 out of 5 stars high humor
Always irreverent, pointed, and hilarious. Adam has developed his particular version of humor by realizing that he really IS superior to everyone else, and will call you out on... Read more
Published 8 months ago by M. Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!
I couldn't expect anything less from Adam, and Even better than I thought.

Everyone must check this book and his blog out!
Published 8 months ago by Nathan Watson
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More About the Author

Adam Heath Avitable (1977-) is a comedian and a humorist from the Orlando area. He has been writing online since 1999 at Avitable.com and performing stand-up comedy since 2011.

His writing has been honored by the blogging community on multiple occasions and he has spoken and lectured on writing and humor throughout the United States. He was voted one of 2010's hottest bloggers and subsequently appeared in the 2010 Hot Blogger Calendar. He'll probably keep telling people that until he's dead.

Adam is also a lawyer who has never practiced law, but this doesn't stop him from providing completely erroneous and unsolicited legal advice to anyone within earshot. He got his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in Saint Louis and it's only slightly more useful than his Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Washington and Lee University.

He Googles himself frequently and invites you to do the same.

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