Cool, Calm & Contentious by Merrill Markoe

Cool, Calm & Contentious by Merrill Markoe

This is so well written. When a book like this] comes along, it's, like, 'Thank you ' What a great way to spend an afternoon, an evening, reading these essays. . . . Absolutely great.--Jon Stewart

Merrill] Markoe is easily as funny as David Sedaris. She's capable of manic riffs and acerbic skewering. Still, her good nature shines through.--The Washington Post

In this hilarious collection of candid essays, including two pieces new to this edition, New York Times bestselling author Merrill Markoe reveals much about her personal life--as well as the secret formula for comedy: Start out with a difficult mother, develop some classic teenage insecurities, add a few relationships with narcissistic men, toss in an unruly pack of selfish dogs, finish it off with the kind of crystalline perspective that only comes from years of navigating a roiling sea of unpleasant and unappeasable people, and--voil --you're funny Cool, Calm & Contentious is honest, unapologetic, sometimes heartbreaking, but always shot through with Merrill Markoe's biting, bracing wit.

This has been a great year for funny women. . . . Let's call Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling exhibits A and B. Both owe a debt to those who came before, including Merrill Markoe.--The Boston Globe

Markoe's goal is to find the absurdity in everyday life. That, coupled with her sharp wit, makes her writing sublime.--BookPage

Laugh-out-loud humor.--Tampa Bay Times

Not only crazy-funny, but crazy-heartbreaking.--The New York Times

Markoe, Merrill: - Merrill Markoe was the head writer for the original The David Letterman Show (the live NBC morning show that was recognized with a Daytime Emmy Award) and the co-creator and first head writer of NBC's groundbreaking Late Night with David Letterman, for which she won three additional Emmy Awards. She engineered the majority of the show's original concepts and created the segments Stupid Pet Tricks, Stupid Human Tricks, and Viewer Mail. Markoe also won a Writer's Guild award for her writing/performing work on HBO's Not Necessarily the News. She has written for television shows such as Sex and the City, Newhart, and Moonlighting and has written for many periodicals, including Rolling Stone, Time, US Weekly, People, Esquire, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, and her cartoon work has appeared in The New Yorker. She was recently awarded the Paddy Chayevsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement.

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ISBN 13	9780345518910
ISBN 10	0345518918
Title	Cool, Calm & Contentious
Author	Merrill Markoe
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Villard Books
Year published	2011-11-01
Number of pages	269
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