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Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ Modern Humorist (Author), Patrick Broderick (Author)
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Did you know:

That Woodstock was initially proposed as “Three Days of Peace, Love, and Monster Trucks”?

That Dr. Seuss experimented with numerous titles before settling on The Cat in the Hat, including The Manatee

Who Uses Profanity and The Horse Going Through a Painful Divorce?

That before settling for a zip-up cardigan, Mr. Rogers insisted on starting each show in his Dallas Cowboys half-shirt?

That James Bond’s famous self-introduction was originally, “Bond. James Bond. James Susan Bond.”?

Or that John Gray’s bestseller was originally titled Men Are from Mars, Women Won’t Shut Up?

Illustrated with album covers, book jackets, scripts, photographs, everyday objects, and other artifacts, Rough Draft is a visually stunning, hilariously funny parody of pop culture from the writers whom Time magazine calls “wildly inventive.”


Product Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1st edition (October 2, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0609808176
  • ISBN-13: 978-0609808177
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #267,415 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Popular culture was never so funny, December 23, 2001
'Rough Draft' continues in the style perfected by the National Lampoon in the seventies and eighties, making fun of the culture that surrounds us all the time (and who's producers take it so seriously).

Like the Lampoon, this well produced book, mimics that culture with wicked results. Page 57 has a shampoo called ''Gee, Your Hair Smells Like Shampoo'', the makers were concerned with truth in personal hygiene packaging, on page 65 novelist Stephen King tries his hand at technical writing by doing the Operating Instructions for the Sony Betamax recorder.

All the graphic material is beautifully produced, down to the barcode on the cover of 'J The Jerry Springer Magazine'. It is this kind of detail that makes 'Rough Draft' so funny and special.

I'm waitng for the sequel.

***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Laughs on every page, October 11, 2001
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A very funny book from the very funny website. It's filled with smart pop culture parody, from Dr. Seuss ("The Salmon that Cheats at Backgammon") up through Harry Potter (with a PlayStation logo tattooed on his forehead). Also hilarious bits on Star Trek, Britney Spears, Sex and the City, Do the Right Thing, the Indigo Girls, Madonna and Hunter S. Thompson. Not every single gag works, but the hits far outweight the misses.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny, January 12, 2002
By The Pope (Vatican City) - See all my reviews
I disagree with the reader from Georgia. God bless Modern Humorist.
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2.0 out of 5 stars One of the Un-funniest books ever published
Perhaps the concept is a bit thin to begin with--essentially, a book of unconnected jokes on pop culture from the fifties to the nineties. Read more
Published on July 25, 2002 by J. Christmas

2.0 out of 5 stars One of the Un-funniest books ever published
Perhaps the concept is a bit thin to begin with--essentially, a book of unconnected jokes on pop culture from the fifties to the nineties. Read more
Published on July 25, 2002 by J. Christmas

2.0 out of 5 stars Talk about a one-joke idea . . .
"Rough Draft" is amusing for the first page or two, but it quickly becomes stale and repetitive. It's basically one joke repeated over and over and over. Read more
Published on June 18, 2002 by tug-3

5.0 out of 5 stars Modern Humorist has done it again!
After the brilliant "My First Presidentiary", I thought that the boys at MH couldn't top themselves. I was wrong. Read more
Published on February 14, 2002 by footlonghamster

5.0 out of 5 stars COMIC GENIUS!!
This book is unbelievably funny--especially the crude sex jokes! I made of giant color xerox of the Britney Spears poster even though my girlfriend doesn't think it's... Read more
Published on January 25, 2002 by jnumbers

1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely disappointed
I have to agree with a previous reviewer that this book is far too vulgar. I am 27 years old and I ordered this book as a Christmas gift for my younger brother. Read more
Published on January 3, 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars unacceptably vulgar far too often
When this book is good, it is very good. Other times, it aims but misses its mark--perhaps because of too-gentle editing, perhaps because a reader might be clueless about what's... Read more
Published on December 27, 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Nuanced and incredibly witty!
I was moved to tears by how utterly hilarious this book was. There is nothing besides pop culture and history that provides such timeless fodder for intelligent humor.
Published on October 9, 2001

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