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Griefstrike!
MOURN LIKE A WINNER.
When it comes to grief, there's no room for second best. Sure, there are other guidebooks aimed at helping you cope with the emotional and practical challenges of losing a loved one. None, however, have been written by a comedy writer whose "therapeutic training" went no further than an undergraduate degree in psychology, and who lived through this terrible experience and emerged intact enough to write a bunch of jokes about it.
What The Daily Show's America (The Book) was to civics and The Onion's Our Dumb Century was to the history of the twentieth century, Jason Roeder's hilarious (and often moving) Griefstrike! is to death, mourning, and somehow getting on with your life.
Jason Roeder
MOURN LIKE A WINNER.
When it comes to grief, there's no room for second best. Sure, there are other guidebooks aimed at helping you cope with the emotional and practical challenges of losing a loved one. None, however, have been written by a comedy writer whose "therapeutic training" went no further than an undergraduate degree in psychology, and who lived through this terrible experience and emerged intact enough to write a bunch of jokes about it.
What The Daily Show's America (The Book) was to civics and The Onion's Our Dumb Century was to the history of the twentieth century, Jason Roeder's hilarious (and often moving) Griefstrike! is to death, mourning, and somehow getting on with your life.
About the author
In Jason's own words:
I'm a former senior editor and senior writer at The Onion as well as a contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. My books have landed on best-of humor lists twice and have been praised by the likes of Judd Apatow and Jack Handey. I live in Los Angeles, and this is probably the best photo you're getting out of me.
But what really matters is what I can do for you. I've spent much of my career writing comedic (and occasionally not so comedic) satirical pieces that have reached millions of people. Each one posed a series of questions I had to answer before it was blasted out: Is this idea as developed as it can be? Is this going to make people laugh in the way I want them to at the moment I want them to? Is this working tonally? Have I chosen punchy words that will get and retain people's attention? Is there a typo that will haunt both me and my descendants for a thousand generations?
In other words, I've spent years cultivating skills directly transferable to almost any copywriting or editing task. Including yours, I bet.
The award show by and for funny people.
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