For five years running, Tony Kornheiser has been voted Washington, D.C.'s favorite columnist, over such luminaries as Buchwald, Barry, and George Will. Kornheiser's collection of columns is the laugh workout for a lifetime. "Pumping Irony is a laugh treat on every page."--Larry King, USA Today.
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Washington Post humor columnist Tony Kornheiser takes on the big issues of the day: how cigarette makers are targeting what they call "Virile Females," the death of Orlon (and its partner Ban-Lon), coffins you can use as furniture before you put them to their final use, and a really weird kid in Japan who injected his scalp with silicone to meet the height requirement for Sumo wrestling.
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Washington Post syndicated columnist Kornheiser here collects his columns of the past eight years; the best entries are very funny, and the weakest are dull. He puts his worst foot forward with a leaden introduction and the labored piece from which he took the book's title. He then proceeds to such topics as kids, the vicissitudes of contemporary life, flying, driving, scandals in the news, women ogling men and family problems. Well worth the price of admission are his essays on the "Life Coffin," an article that can be used as a living-room bookcase until it is needed for other purposes; a class for fearful airplane passengers, in which confessions by fellow students gave Kornheiser reasons for apprehension he had never thought of before; trendy new coffee bars with coffees that are far beyond the exotic. Fans will enjoy finding out that the Polish alphabet "consists of only seven letters?Z, X, I, Y, K, C and S," and why Kornheiser, in rejecting trendy foods, came to bury fennel not to braise it.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant!!!,
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This review is from: Pumping Irony:: Working Out the Angst of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
Tony Kornheiser has put together one of the funniest, most comprehensive looks at human existance and the stupid things that we've all heard about but couldn't believe. From sports, to politics, to idiocy, Kornheiser pokes fun at the establishment, human nature and, mostly, himself! I've read it three or four times and have had four or five friends read it - all with the same results .... HYSTERICAL!
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Outrageously funny,
This review is from: Pumping Irony: Working Out the Angst of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
Tony Kornheiser is one of those insanely talented columnists who doesn't get half the press he deserves. With the warped worldview and hilarious self-deprecation of a Jewish Dave Barry, Kornheiser skewers the absurdities of everyday life -- and a few items that aren't so everyday. ("Nudes on Ice" being an example of the latter)Tony offers his commentary on presidential golf ("Republicans hit players, Democrats hit on them"); Chinese food and why it will kill you, and what this means for the Jewish community; men's behinds and the revelation that women look at them; bringing food into movie theaters; gyms and how awful it is to work out -- especially if you are already fat; the truth behind the NC-17 rating; Barbie dolls; the differences between the sexes ("I busted Jason's nose"); various names from around the world ("I am grateful to my parents for naming me Anthony Irwin Kornheiser because it gives me license to say anything I want about other people's names"); yuppie catalogs with designer birdfeed and "Soap on a Rope"; and many, many more. Tony has a wonderfully open mind -- he makes fun of pretty much everybody, regardless of race, gender, politics, class, and just about anything else. He frequently gets embarrassed and befuddled by the events in this book. And like his friend Dave Barry (who provides him with an incredibly funny cover quote) Tony says things in such a way that they make a great deal of absurd sense. "Pumping Irony" is the antidote to boredom. Open this puppy up and laugh yourself silly from cover to cover.
5.0 out of 5 stars
More Bathroom Reading,
By M. D. "The Doc" (Nevada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pumping Irony:: Working Out the Angst of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
I've loved TK for years. Listened to his radio show. Watched PTI faithfully. Didn't even mind him on Monday Night Football.
But being on the wrong side of the country I never got to read his stuff in the Post regularly. This is one of Mr. Tony's "I'll make a book out of my old column's" and its great. My wife (who can't stand PTI because she thinks Tony and Mike argue too much) even thought it was funny. Of course, it ended up in the bathroom, as a column (or two) is perfect bathroom reading. Now I need another copy that's not got a red dot ;)
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