As a follow-up to his bestselling America (The Book), Jon Stewart offers a less-than-hard-hitting but endlessly amusing overview of our world in Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race.
The Daily Show anchor adopts a deadpan, textbook-style approach to that most peculiar of species, the human, and the planet on which it resides. Stewart and his team examine the origins of life (featuring a recipe for Emeril’s “Fiery Cajun-Style Primordial Gumbo”) and human reproduction (in which Alfred Hitchcock’s portly silhouette represents the climax of pregnancy), as well as providing explanations of political systems, commerce, and religion. The seemingly familiar has never seemed so hilariously foreign.
Listen to Stewart’s speech at the 2010 Book Expo America, check out the The Daily Show website, catch Stewart raising heck on The O’Reilly Factor this week, and buy the book
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Excerpted from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart. Copyright 2010 Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. All rights reserved.
Excerpted from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart. Copyright 2010 Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. All rights reserved.