I finished it!
Whew!

It took an entire short plane ride but I finished it. I also enjoyed it immensely and laughed out loud on quite a few occasions.

I will admit it does take a certain sort of person to enjoy this humour. A silly sort. If you think that is you then you are in for brevity and a treat.

If you do not have "funny bones" or this does not fit within your "funny bone paradigm" then you will find much to hate, and that is kind of sad. Why are you so full of hate?

Michael Ian Black has books of essays, this is not that. It is kind of "essay-lite". There are chapters in this I am positive were either bits from Showalter's standup or just a phrase copy/pasted.

I enjoyed it.
The end.