One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever (Paperback)

by Modern Humorist (Author) "The upper-right portion of America is a study in contrasts: Sprawling urban hellholes interrupt huge swaths of rural backwater..." (more)
Key Phrases: United States, New York City, Geo Metro (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
In this thin book of jokes about the American way of life-its food, people, leisure activities, etc.-the writers of Modern Humorist (John Aboud, Patrick Broderick, Michael Colton, Martha Keavney and others) use the conventions of a travel guidebook to say something about the strangeness and contradiction that is America. Unfortunately, they don't have much to report. Using pie charts, info-graphics, and bullet-points to underscore their gags, they tell us that America is violent, New York is full of Jews and Southern California is polluted. While a satirical publication such as the Onion uses a staid format to deliver jokes slyly, even subversively, the writers of Modern Humorist use the travel brochure template to place air quotes around their own material, effectively distancing themselves with a tone of faux-naivete. At its best, the humor of Modern Humorist exhibits a clever resilience; at its worst it feels patronizing.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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?All of the grandeur of America has been condensed into one breathtaking book. That book is ?Leaves of Grass? by Walt Whitman.? ?Conan O?Brien

?Modern Humorist has produced a truly funny book about America. Just imagine what they could do to a stupid country. Like Finland.? ?Mike Reiss, producer of ?The Simpsons?

?I followed this handy guide to America and ended up in a nude pig-wrestling tournament in Guadalajara. VERY SCARY. My advice: Stay home, read the book, and have a lot of laughs.? ?R.L. Stine, author of ?Goosebumps? -- Review

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1st edition (August 27, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609809792
• ISBN-13: 978-0609809792
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,321,933 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life in these United States, August 27, 2002

By A Customer

Another funny book from the "My First Presidency" people, this is a skewed guide to life in America. The highlights are the "Dating and Sex" and "Cuisine" sections, but the drawings are hilarious throughout. The illustrations about college drinking would have had milk shooting out of my nose, were I drinking milk at the time.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One nation, one book and poor paper, hold the cheese., October 20, 2002

By	Robin Benson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Another (almost) winner from the folks at Modern Humorist. A very comprehensive guide to the bestest nation on earth and when you get to the last page to read `By the time you finish reading this page, 3.000 Americans will take a bullet, three million will super-size their Happy Meals and three will pass a geography test. Still, this nation is the envy of the world, except in Sweden, where government subsidies ensure all citizens have equal access to health care and erotica', perhaps you should book your ticket to Stockholm.

Scattered through the pages are Travel Tips or Fun Facts side-panels, spoof covers of books, magazines, greeting cards and dozens of really slick illustrations. These neat drawings are unfortunately wasted because of the really poor paper the book is printed on. This was a real disappointment to me, with better paper the excellent graphics would have made the book complete. The MH earlier book `Rough Draft', in color and on glossy paper was stunning, this latest offering, good as it is, doesn't quite make it though. Sorry guys.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impossible Not To Anti-Laugh At This Book!, August 31, 2002

By A Customer

This book is a hidden cave of spectacular bounty.

The artwork is similar to those in-flight safety brochures you see in airplanes, except instead of pictures of people properly attaching life-vests to their bodies to prevent drowning, there are pictures of businessmen with exposed genitalia, children rollerskating into brick walls, and explanations of the different types of Hooters waitresses.

Overall, this book is well-written and amazingly graphixized -- it's definitely the best of Modern Humorist's Laff trilogy and worth checking out. There are samples of the book at ... Just check out their "Foreigner's Guide To America" stuff.

This is an excellent book. If you don't believe me, would you consider taking this outside? My fists need a punching bag, and I love settling differences in book opinions with bloody fights.

All the best!