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  <title><![CDATA[I Think There's A Terrorist In My Soup:  How to Survive Personal and World Problems with Laughter - Seriously]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;On September 11, 2001, veteran comedian David Brenner was in the midst of a 'cushy' 48-week stand-up gig in Las Vegas. Immediately after that day, he cancelled the engagement and instructed his manager to book him on a nationwide tour. He called it the 'Laughter to the People' tour, and on it he shared his humor with a grieving nation. Audience response was overwhelming. In I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup: How to Survive Personal and World Problems with Laughter'Seriously, Brenner draws on highlights from his stand-up material to show how humor can give us the power to transcend personal and world problems from the unavoidable, like aging, to the uncontrollable, like war.The essays in the book cover a wide range of issues, including fear of flying, aging, marriage and divorce, pets, politics, terrorism, and religion. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction and then goes right to the heart of the material, much of which has been well tested on Brenner's nightclub audiences. With sharp humor and healthy doses of humanity, I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup can't help but heal its readers. &lt;P&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are spots in the book that are laugh-out-loud funny, but the sections on religion and politics are too bitter for my taste.  Like George Carlin ended up late in his life, the bitterness tends to outweigh the humor.  I didn't even finish the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book isn't all that funny and it contains quite a bit of language, I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[great to listen to on our trip to NYC.   Very funny]]></body>
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