The Areas of My Expertise
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Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
The Daily Show correspondent relates his knowledge of the world.
No offense to books, but if you’re just reading The Areas of My Expertise, you’re not getting the full experience. John Hodgman (whom you may recognize from The Daily Show, or the “I’m a PC” commercials) has got this bookish, bald-faced deadpan that simultaneously conveys authority and whimsy. Which is what you need when you’re lying your ass off. The Areas of My Expertise is like some mischievous, bizarro doppelganger to Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, where the myriad “facts” are dubious at best, more often ludicrous.
Topics include: Failed palindromes, unlikely tricks used by con artists, preposterous crab restaurants, the time the U.S. had a hobo Secretary of the Treasury and exciting lies about all 51 states. Lightened by occasional poppy interjections from singer-songwriter/straight-man Jonathan Coulton — not to mention a weird walk-on by Paul Rudd — The Areas of My Expertise is probably too smart and subtle to be called a comedy album, too damn funny not to.
No offense to books, but if you’re just reading The Areas of My Expertise, you’re not getting the full experience. John Hodgman (whom you may recognize from The Daily Show, or the “I’m a PC” commercials) has got this bookish, bald-faced deadpan that simultaneously conveys authority and whimsy. Which is what you need when you’re lying your ass off. The Areas of My Expertise is like some mischievous, bizarro doppelganger to Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, where the myriad “facts” are dubious at best, more often ludicrous.
Topics include: Failed palindromes, unlikely tricks used by con artists, preposterous crab restaurants, the time the U.S. had a hobo Secretary of the Treasury and exciting lies about all 51 states. Lightened by occasional poppy interjections from singer-songwriter/straight-man Jonathan Coulton — not to mention a weird walk-on by Paul Rudd — The Areas of My Expertise is probably too smart and subtle to be called a comedy album, too damn funny not to.
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