Openly Bob
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.24 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688151205 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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But okay: you're out, you're proud now what?In Openly Bob, Bob Smith offers his own original, whine-free perspective on being grown up and gay. From bringing your boyfriend home to your father's funeral, to being the only gay couple at a family wedding, to surviving couples counseling, Smith's unique point of view on the very ordinary events of our lives resonates with keen observation and hilarious truth.Sex education, meteor showers, lesbian ventriloquist dummies, flea-market shopping, body piercing, pot-smoking drag queens, environmental correctness, Judgment Day, Samuel Beckett, Newt Gingrich, Coco Chanel, Sigmund Freudnothing and no one has been spared Bob Smith's incisive eye in this very human collection of comic essaysfrom a writer who knows how to serve up a truly fresh slice of Ameri
We stopped having sex. Openly Bob is not, however, a collection of gay jokes. Bob Smith writes about topics that are standard elements of almost any actor-humorist's repertoire: family visits, early jobs, auditions for parts, and the ups and downs of romantic relationships. . His jokes aren't funny because he's gay; his jokes are funny because they're funny. "We had sex less frequently. "How did Tom and I come to realize that we needed couples counseling?" he asks at one point. Then we had sex less frequently than people in full-body casts. When Bob's sexuality is relevant to the joke, it comes up, as in his thoughts on how to abate right-wing fears about homosexuals using sex education in public schools as "recruitment." "Our educational system has proved," he writes, "that if a subject is taught in a boring enough manner, Americans will make every effort to avoid it for the rest of their lives. If homosexuality was ta
Disappointing Bob is a more talented stand-up comic than he is a writer (unfortunately, being one doesn't automatically make you the other). The only humor lies in forced one-liners linked together by an over-edited, uncompelling narrative -- the author is obviously writing for the stage, not the page. Pass it up, you won't miss a thing.. Laugh out Loud Funny P. Hennessy If you have heard or read David Sedaris and liked him, my guess is you will really fall for Bob Smith. Funny and engrossing, this is a book to buy!. "A clean-cut all-American gay boy can be funny? Yes very!" according to Stephen O. Murray. The clean-cut all-American boy Bob Smith was probably an altar boy (as well as being an alter-boy). The son of a heavy-drinking New York State trooper and a devoutly Catholic mother, he grew up in Buffalo. The book begins and ends with visits to his hometown, accompanied by his life-partner Tom. They also visit Tom's parents in their Florida retireme