June 14, 2006
Look at My Striped Shirt!
The best book published since the Bible!!!!
Look at My Striped Shirt!
Written by The Phat Phree
Category: Humor
Publisher: Broadway
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Pub Date: December 2006
Price: $12.95
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Remember hearing about The Onion right before it took off? This is just such a moment for a new comedy collective known as The Phat Phree. Almost a million people got their first addictive taste of the Phamily’s humor when their blistering profile of a Red Bull–swilling jerk in an emphatically striped shirt spread virally around the Internet. Now, with thephatphree.com regularly receiving over three million views a month and the launch of Look at My Striped Shirt!, the world is about to become a much funnier place.
The Phat Phree’s genius, brilliantly evident throughout Look at My Striped Shirt!, lies in lampooning the people who plague us by adopting the typical offender’s point of view. We meet such benighted souls as:
• the dismissive IT tech (”You could have fixed this yourself by typing ‘_ipconfig.exe’ after the c-prompt. Idiot.”)
• the desperate-for-validation high school teacher (”Like my Goo Goo Dolls tee? Anyone else here down with the Dolls? Me either. I was just wearing it as a goof.”)
• the man in seat 18D who must get off the plane first (”I WILL get off this plane before you—maybe by as much as 30 or 45 seconds.”)
Covering every arena of life, Look at My Striped Shirt! treats us to pitch-perfect re-creations of familiar figures who bewilder us with their stupidity, vapidity, or arrogance. Combining the snarky intelligence of The Onion with the broad appeal of Bud Lite’s “Real Men of Genius,” this book forms a vital part of The Phat Phree’s mission: Observe. Target. Ridicule.
ABOUT THIS AUTHOR
THE PHAT PHREE is a gloriously irreverent group of talented comedy writers from around the country.
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