Hello Junk Mail! (Hardcover)

~ Ted L. Nancy (Author)
Key Phrases: warmest regards, tiny gnawing, refrigerator carton, Grandfather Bahir, Generalissimo Tazmak, Hamooli Kabobby (more...)

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"Pure comedic genius." — Jerry Seinfeld

Product Description

Who is Ted L. Nancy? Is it Jerry Seinfeld as many believe? Or is Ted L. Nancy someone else? Mr. Nancy’s hilarious, notorious Letters from a Nut series documented his correspondence with celebrities and companies, who took his outlandish ideas and suggestions at face value. In Hello Junk Mail!, Nancy tackles one of the most pernicious evils of the modern age: the junk mailer. Now writing with the Kabobbys of Glendale, a newly arrived foreign family and their relatives, Ted and his new neighbors answer scores of junk letters with riotous results. Responding to a solicitation from a pest control company, Hamooli Kabobby requests that they eliminate his freeloading cousin, then tells the pest control company about his family problems of body odors and stinky backyards. Geela Kabobby writes the distributors of free instant breakfast samples to ask if they cure eye infections. Grandfather Bahir Kabobby writes to a mortgage company: "Yes, I want financial freedom and healthier toes." Laid out as copies of the actual correspondence, the letters are as authentic as they are ridiculous — and all are wildly entertaining. So who is Ted? Jerry Seinfeld or The Kabobbys of Glendale?

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 226 pages
• Publisher: National Lampoon Press; 1 edition (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980059216
• ISBN-13: 978-0980059212
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #140,630 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 Funny and FRESH, December 11, 2008

By	Ignatius Reilly "Scott Kablob" (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I don't agree with the previous review at all, but before responding, let me say what is great about this book. This book shows change for Ted L. Nancy, as it moves beyond the letter/response genre--that Ted has done three of and that has been done to death by now. As far as I know, this is the first book to tell a story in letters responding to junk mail. It's a great idea. Some of the letters read well on their own, while others need to be read in context, but if you read the whole book, you will be wildly entertained by the story of the Kabboby family, CoCo LaBoy and Generalissimo Tazmak. This is a very funny book, but it is a BOOK that requires some work on the part of the reader, for which the reader will be greatly rewarded.

Now, in response to the first review...This book is full of replies. In fact, it is mainly all replies--replies to junk mail. Ok, so that's not what was intended by the reviewer, but it is a point worth making. However, there are replies to Mr. Nancy's letters. There are series of letters from Muldoon's footwear, the Cordon Bleu school, Dr. Katz the breath doctor, a trade school, some Canadian ministry of something or other-- and a killer respnose to Colonelissimo Tazmak from T.Rowe Price to end the book on a great note (if the reader has been paying attention). I'm not sure if the first reviewer read the whole book or read it with any comprehension of what it is really about. I suggest reading the forward first for some context.

I'm sure Ted could write another straight letters book. "More Extra Nutty"?? "More More Nutty"? The point is, Ted has told us even by his titles that he's had enough of that genre. It was getting a bit ridiculous. Ted has moved on. His audience should move on. It is mean spritied and short sighted to slam Mr. Nancy for not writing the same book over and over again. I support Ted and will always give him the benefit of the doubt by reading his work with an open mind. Once through with the book, I will make a judgment, and my judgment on this book is that it is very funny, and it is unique in the extreme. This book is ingenious and indicative of the crazed thought we expect from Mr. Nancy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HILARIOUS BOOK!, March 8, 2009

By	LOREN (NASHVILLE, TN) - See all my reviews

I really like clever humor and this book fills the bill. Ted L. Nancy has always been one of my favorite writers. I own all of his books and this may just be the best book he has written. That's because I find it to be even more clever then the Letters From A Nut books. In those books you get hilarious humor. But in Hello Junk Mail you get that - plus there's a story in this book. I find it ingenious that Ted has taken common junk mail - mail that everybody gets and is familiar with - and wove a really funny story using his junk mail to advance the story. Plus he writes now as various people in answering the junkmail. Ingenious! Who's done this before? Wow, I hope Mr. Nancy keeps it up! Write another book, Ted. Hello Junk Mail is really funny!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!, December 16, 2008

By	Humor Fan (Miami, Fla) - See all my reviews

There is only one Ted L. Nancy and he proves again just how funny he can be. Ted is on top of his game here. Not only does he tell the story of a very funny family, but he unfolds it before our eyes through actual junk mail correspondence. Pretty innovative, I think. I didn't just laugh hard, I also felt a sense of revenge against these incessant junk mailers that keep popping up on my computer and overflowing my mailbox. You got to give Ted credit for coming up with something completely different. Who else but Ted L. Nancy can find comedy gold in junk mail?