Mr Funny Pants

‘Showalter is a comic genius. This is, cover to cover, the funniest book I’ve ever read!’

(Dear Mike, Haven’t time to check it out yet. Do you want to just write a quote and put my name on it? Best, Ben) - Ben Stiller

Here’s the deal: I think Michael Showalter is a genius. And I don’t use that term lightly. This book is brave, merciless, and soulful and I think that by that I actually mean stupid, smart and very funny (I mostly just wanted to use the word ‘merciless’ in a sentence.) If you see it on a friend’s shelf do yourself a favor and just take it. Not the shelf. Just the book. Unless of course you need a shelf. Merciless!!! - Paul Rudd

I read Michael’s book on a train. It was funny and engaging. I also once took a train with Michael. I wish that Michael, as a passenger sitting next to me, was as funny and engaging as his book was. - Janeane Garofalo

Procrastination in written form. This book, like all great works, is honest, absurd and absolutely pointless. - Amy Poehler

With MR. FUNNY PANTS, Showalter deconstructs books down to their core, then builds them back up into a swirling core-nado. Which is a tornado made out of book cores. It’s not a real thing. This book is funny. - Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone of SNL and The Lonely Island

Showalter, Michael has written a very clever book. And he has written about writing a book, cleverly. Showalter, Michael asked me to write a blurb. It was easy to do-here it is: ‘I very much really really liked this Mr. Funny Pants - a book so enjoyable that blurbing about it is so very easy. - Zach Galifianakis

MR. FUNNY PANTS is unlike any book I’ve ever read. It’s this weird, hilarious, choose-your-own-adventure inside Michael Showalter’s brain -which is, of course, brilliant. I was at first skeptical of the premise of deconstructing the process of writing a book, but 10 pages in, I was literally crying with laughter and by the time he got to analyzing his own high school poetry, I could no longer read the book in public without embarrassing myself. - Mike Birbiglia, author of Sleepwalk With Me

Michael Showalter: amusing trousers, singular mind. - Sarah Vowell, New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates