Based on a True Story Not a Memoir

Based on a True Story : Not a Memoir
ISBN: 9780812983869
Publication Date: 13 June 2017

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Driving, wild and hilarious (TheWashington Post), here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran.

Dont miss Norms new Netflix special, Hitlers Dog, Gossip &; Treachery!** When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre one step below instruction manuals. Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, Call it anything you damn like.

Praise for Based on a True Story
Dostoyevsky by way of 30 Rockefeller Center . . . the best new book Ive read this year or last.The Wall Street Journal

This book is absurd fiction. . . . Scathing and funny.The New York Times

Hilarious and filled with turns of phrase and hidden beauty like only a collection of Norm Macdonald stories could be.Esquire

Raucous . . . a hilarious, innovative work.A.V. Club

Part personal history and part meta riff on celebrity memoirs, the book, it quickly becomes clear, is also just partly true (and all hilarious).Vulture

Very, very, very funny! Thanks, Norm, for letting me be part of this Booker Prizeforliteraturequality eff...