Based on a true story: not a memoir - Norm Macdonald

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Driving, wild and hilarious ( The Washington Post ), here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran.

Don't miss Norm's new Netflix special, Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Treachery 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 This book is absurd fiction.

Scathing and funny.

-- The New York Times Hilarious and filled with turns of phrase and hidden beauty like only a collection of Norm Macdonald stories could be.

-- Esquire Raucous .

a hilarious, innovative work.

Club Part personal history and part meta riff on celebrity memoirs, the book, it quickly becomes clear, is also just partly true (and all hilarious).

-- Vulture Very, very, very funny Thanks, Norm, for letting me be part of this Booker Prize-for-literature-quality effort.

--David Letterman Norm is brilliant and thoughtful and there is sensitivity and creative insight in his observations and stories.

A lot of comics over the years have been compared to Mark Twain, but I think Norm is the only one who actually matches the guy in terms of his voice and ability.

I seriously f**king love Norm Macdonald.

Please buy his book.

He probably needs the cash.

He's really bad with money.

--Louis C.

, from the foreword Norm is one of my all-time favorites, and this book was such a great read I forgot how lonely I was for a while.

--Amy Schumer I always thought Normie's stand-up was the funniest thing there was.

But this book gives it a run for its money.

--Adam Sandler Norm is one of the greatest stand-up comics who's ever worked--a totally original voice.

His sense of the ridiculous and his use of juxtaposition in his writing make him a comic's comic.

We all love Norm.

--Roseanne Barr Norm Macdonald makes me laugh my ass off.

Who is funnier than Norm Macdonald? Nobody.

--Judd Apatow Norm Macdonald is more than a triple threat--he's a septuple threat.

He is smart, funny, wry, rakish, polite, rakish .

no, wait.

He is polite, insightful, and .

aaaaah .

He's exciting.

Exciting You never know what he'll do.

Okay, then make that unpredictable.

Add that up.

He's amazing.

--Alec Baldwin Norm is a double threat.

His material and timing are both top-notch, which is unheard of.

He is one of my favorites, both on- and off-stage.

--Dave Attell Letterman said it best: There is no one funnier than Norm Macdonald.

--Rob Schneider.