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9/28/2007

My Dad's Birthday Present



We got my dad the new Gabe Kaplan book for his birthday. It's called Kotter's Back: E-mails from a Faded Celebrity to a Bewildered World, and it's fucking hilarious. Here's the description from the jacket:
When fifty-eight-year-old Gabe Kaplan, perhaps best known for his performance in the title role of the popular seventies sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, got an e-mail asking him to participate in a show called Celebrity Boxing, he couldn't resist the urge to have a little fun with the request. After exchanging a series of ludicrous e-mails with the show's talent coordinator in a mock-serious attempt at negotiation, Gabe was inspired to start a prank e-mail campaign. The result is this hilarious collection of correspondence. See how people react to Gabe Kaplan's absurd claims that he:

* has slept with more women than Wilt Chamberlain
* is an expert at Cossack dancing
* thinks he's smart enough to become a member of MENSA
* wants his image on a U.S. postage stamp
* would like NASA to send him into orbit with Jimmy Carter and Dr. J
* and many more!

Witty, irreverent, and ridiculously comical, Gabe's e-mails and the responses he receives are sure to entertain anyone with a taste for the surreal.
It's totally excellent. We found ourselves with nothing to do near a Bored-ers [get it? it's a joke, get it?], so we stopped in. I saw it on the shelf, and started reading it. By the end of the first section I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. It's sort of like the Lazlo Letters, but much funnier, because it's the crutch of the joke is that he's Gabe fucking Kaplan.

This book gets my highest recommendation.
- posted by Mason @ 11:35 PM
Ya'll Motherfuckers Said What?:
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