This is an extremely humorous book written well before Stewart started becoming a household name on the daily show. He lampoons various historical figures in a way that was well before its time.

I bought this a long time ago. I started reading it in 2012 and never finished and only know this because when I picked it up again recently, I found an ATM receipt from 2012 in the middle as a bookmark. I love Jon Stewart. I think he was still finding his voice here, and he did a nice job covering a bunch of different pop culture figures in various formats, with varying degrees of success. The only one that truly made me laugh out loud was the Kennedy piece because it was so over-the-top absurd. I still laugh thinking of young Ted Kennedy's head being so big, he had to drag it behind him.

Love Jon Stewart, hated this book. A bunch of little essays/stories/fake correspondences concerning famous people--The Kennedys, Bill Gates, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, etc. They are all pretty one note and all in poor taste. Chalk it up to a comedian growing, finding his voice, whatever, but just skip this one.

I enjoyed this book to no end...well, until it ended. ;)

I feel like I was snickering through most of it if not laughing out loud for the rest. I especially enjoyed the chapters with Hanson's Christmas letters & the Larry King interview of Hitler. Oh & the Last Supper at "Jerry's" in Jerusalem. *snickers* See? Still snickering.

I wouldn't be surprised if I re-read this at some point. My love of Jon Stewart apparently knows no bounds.

Jon Stewart es un genio de la comedia inteligente y este modesto libro es un pequeño ensayo humorístico que ve de manera inteligente los clichés y estereotipos en la vida política y el mundo del entretenimiento en Estados Unidos Unidos, en general. Destacan la "correspondencia" entre Lady Diana y la Madre Teresa, el cuaderno de Da Vinci y la fórmula para un espectáculo de premiaciones.

This book has many hilarious stories. From a young jewish boy spending time at the Kennedy Compound toChristmas with the Hanson family(mmmbop)! Also, check out Larry King's interview with Hitler and not to mention Martha Stewart's decorative tips for a certain part of the female anatomy. I could not stop laughing at this book!

A quite amusing selection of humorous, shall we call them... essays? Published in '98 one or two of them are a little dated (specifically the one on AOL chat rooms, do people still do that?), but they are all completely hilarious. I highly recommend this book for a quick laugh.

A pleasantly swift read, I pretty much read the 2nd half of it this morning in one go.

A mixed bag of a book, but the positive (and funny) outweighs the more dated, more WTF-y & less funny by abt 70/30. Hence the 4 stars.

Predictably, my fave bits (stories? chapters? segments?) were those related to religion in some way (The New Judaism, The Cult, The Devil and William Gates), but I was also positively surprised by some of the rest (Pen Pals, Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold, Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview).

I think making Breakfast At Kennedy's the opening number was a smart move. It's an ideal story to separate the grain from the chaff from among the potential readers. If you make it through the first story, you're going to mostly enjoy the rest as well.

Half the stories & essays satirise 1990s US politics which went right over my head, but some really funny stuff. The Diana-Mother Teresa "Pen Pals" story & "Five Under Five" were especially good. Wish he wrote more books like this

2.6/5: too many famous people

There are gems in here. It's a short essay collection by one of the greatest comedians in America, it'd be weird if there wasn't gems in here. The story about a high school reunion revenge tale is phenomenal, a good mix of funny lines and an actual surprise twist after just 8 pages of reading. The Recipe is a unique look at awards shows as long as you avoid the last italicized part. Five Under Five is a funny twist on the 30 under 30 articles that still shove themselves in your face under every magazine. And the Lenny Bruce and Bill Gates stories were fun in their unique voices...either TV note ridiculousness or haunting silliness.

Those last two stories were the only two that stood out as "this is a good story about a celebrity/historical figure". The problem is that there were a LOT of stories about celebrity/historical figures. The main issue here is that they didn't capture something tangible about Ford, or Diana, or Kennedy, or da Vinci...Stewart kinda just decided to ratchet up the immaturity/stupidity of each historical figure and run with it from there. The reason why the Lenny Bruce story was funny is that you could absolutely see Bruce sending some weird stuff to a TV executive...it had a foundation of truth. All good satire/parody does! And that's why Diana talking like a teenage girl or Ford being insane-asylum-level-stupid didn't work out.

Quick read and very amusing.

Parts are somewhat amusing, but it drags and feels dated. Not really worth tracking down.