From the well-known screenwriter and viral sensation, a collection of humorous essays chronicling the pains and hilarious indignities of modern life in the tradition of David Sedaris."Gary Janetti's b
The Instant New York Times Bestseller"From Family Guy to his own Instagram account, Janetti has been behind some of his generation's greatest comedy. This book of essays is no exception." - The New York TimesFans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey... meet your new friend Gary Janetti.Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life. Gary spends his twenties in New York, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phone all the time, and fantasizes, as we all do, about who to tell off
From New York Times bestselling author Gary Janetti comes a collection of hilarious, laugh out loud, true life stories about the small moments that add up to a big life.Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he’s here to tell us.He’s bothered that he has to play football in high school gym when he’d rather be in the guidance counselor’s office, faking sick and dishing about the latest dramas on his beloved soap operas. He’s annoyed when, as a kid growing up in Queens, New York, there’s a serial killer loose in his neighborhood, but Carole Burnett is on tv and he really doesn’t want to miss it. And don’t get him started on how a perfectly planned vacation can be ruined by a bad hotel room.Start Without Me is for anyone who has ever felt like they don’t quite fit in. For all of us that have thought, just maybe, those small, petty slights that life flings at us, over and over, are worth getting our feathers ruffled over. A book for any of us that have felt the joy in
"Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart.” — Kevin KwanFans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey… meet your new friend Gary Janetti
