Many
late-night television shows are filled with comedians making fun of everything,
from politicians and celebrities, to CEOs and professional athletes. A lot of these shows interview authors as
well. What if we had a show that
featured comedians cracking jokes about books, authors, publishers, and all of the things that relate to the book industry, writing, and hawking of books?
Can
you imagine Stephen Colbert tearing into a movie studio for the way it
transformed a book to the big screen?
How about an SNL skit that involved a best-selling author and her
editor? Would it be smashing to witness
Samantha Bee verbally undress a publisher for its decision to pull a book back
or for its decision to publish a book that society could do without?
Okay,
so maybe Comedy Central executives
are not running to greenlight such a show. Maybe it couldn’t even make it into
a recurring bit on a show, but the concept is worth exploring. The book world needs to laugh at itself and by
having mainstream society join in the fun we may just make books cool again.
To
be fair, many TV shows do their part to interview or feature authors on the
air. Noah, Maher, Colbert, and others
serve the book industry well. But
there’s room for making jokes about any of the following:
·
How
some books are acquired.
·
Crazy
huge advances doled out to certain writers.
·
How
bad a book is.
·
Scandals
of a writer.
·
How
too many writers can’t make a living.
·
Funny
book titles that didn’t mean to endear laughter.
·
Bad
book jacket copy.
·
Dumb
author blog posts.
I
know not all of this is funny. These can be serious issues. But humor has a way of making us lighten up
and to see the funny side of life.
Comedians joke about horrible events, abhorrent people, and monstrous
moments. They can easily throw a few
zingers or one-liners about three best-selling authors who walk into a bar.
Comedy
covers every aspect of our lives so why not focus on the theme of books? After all, books tie into every aspect of
life, so really the jokes could cover so much territory. Many people in book publishing watch these
late-night comedy shows because they require intellect to appreciate the jokes
about current events. It wouldn’t be
such a stretch to shift some of the skits to be book-centric.
Hey,
Lorne Michaels and Jimmy Fallon, did you hear the one about the book editor
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