This book was a MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT. I expected to be entertained--instead I was bored and confused.

Very, very smart. Very, very dry.

not impressed....didn't find very funny...

Naked Pictures of Famous People. The title alone is enough to make you turn your head and reread the cover. The book by Jon Stewart is an outrageously funny collection of short stories that will have you rolling on the floor with laughter.
The book includes stories about anything from the Kennedy family to Martha Stewart to Mr. Jangles, the Taco Bell dog. One of my favorite chapters, A Very Hanson Christmas, is about a family and the Christmas cards they send out. Stewart takes this simple idea and turns it into a ridiculous mess of comedy. The family starts out as a "normal" holiday obsessed family, but as the years go by, more and more trouble hits the family. In the first letter, the family signs "God Bless", but by the end it is signed "God is Dead". Clearly, things didn't go as planned for the family. Jon Stewart does a most excellent job of running with simple ideas and turning them into comedy gold.
I picked this book up at a thrift shop in Seattle for a quarter. This book is worth way more than a quarter! It caught my eye originally with the name “Jon Stewart” written across it, then after a closer look, the title had me do a double take! As a fan of Stewart’s work on The Daily Show and as a stand-up comedian, I knew I couldn’t pass on the chance to read his book. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who wants a quick read. I enjoyed reading one chapter/short story before bed each night. This book is really quite funny and Jon Stewart did one Hell of a job writing it.

This book made me lol from time to time but there were also a few moments where I felt it dragged a bit. There were a lot of references (and yes, this could be more the fault of the reader than the writer) to people I wasn't familiar enough with to properly understand all of his reference-based humor. Thankfully, Stewart's referencing of popular and not-so-popular public and historical figures is not quite at the level of, say, Dennis Miller's obscurity. America: The Book hands down beats Naked Pictures of Famous people, I'd say, but both are going to be fun if you're a Daily Show/Stewart fan.

This book was so awful and not funny that I wish I could rate it lower than a one. I had high expectations but was disappointed.

Smart and funny and big-minded as Stewart is, I just happen to be someone who long ago burned out on such fast-paced irreverent wit; Woody Allen was all I needed. But for most Jon Stewart fans, this is a must-read.

This was definitely before Stewart hit his stride. Some of these essays made me laugh aloud, some fell completely flat, or lacked any humor outside of their initial gimmick.

Something about this just felt really off. I never really got into it and while it was occasionally a little funny, it was mostly boring.

Ugh. Sure, some humor here, but not nearly "laugh out loud" funny. Just couldn't finish it. Way too many other options out there.

This collection from 1998 will be disappointing for most of Stewart's fans (I am one). The first story is a pretty good dissection of the Kennedy family mythos which nicely demonstrates Stewart's raunchy-but-good-natured wit. Unfortunately, the rest of the book is pretty pointless: juvenile, facile, and rarely funny. The stories seem to grope toward satire, but with neither the deserving targets nor the clear moral point of view that make the Daily Show so sharp, articulate, and entertaining. The result falls somewhere between Woody Allen at his silliest and the wise-ass fifteen-year-old that Jon Stewart presumably once was.

I found this book interesting to read, but only because it captures Jon Stewart at a turning point in his creative life, as he began to mature from a good stand-up comic and so-so talk show host into the accomplished social critic and satirist he has become. This book is mostly a series of misguided attempts, but luckily for us he started figuring out what to do soon after it was published.

I've been a huge fan of Jon Stewart from his The Daily Show days and looked forward to reading this collection. Twenty-plus years on, some of the stories seem just as timely as they would back in 1998, while others stir a bit of nostalgia for that decade. The stories are a bit hit-or-miss for me, and weren't as funny as some of his bits on television. The worst was probably the Martha Stewart one, whose concept seemed extremely amusing but the story just went on and on too long for me.

I enjoyed some of the stories very much. I had a few favorites, including the cereal cult story. It was interesting to see Stewart's humor and thoughts about non-political topics.