Full name: Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir

Author: Norm Macdonald Year: 2016 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Humor, Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812983869 0812983866

When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre "one step below instruction manuals." Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, "Call it anything you damn like." Praise for Based on a True Story: "Dostoyevsky by way of 30 Rockefeller Center... the best new book I've read this year or last." --The Wall Street Journal Similar books: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Dry by Augusten Burroughs The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Born Standing Up by Steve Martin My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler Yes Please by Amy Poehler You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day Si-cology 1 by Si Robertson Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick Drinking & Tweeting by Brandi Glanville Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx Forever, Erma by Erma Bombeck