Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
Nov 2009 · Random House
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In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes, is a hopelessly terrifying place–with endless comic potential.
–If your girlfriend gives you some “love coupons” and then breaks up with you, are the coupons still valid?
–What kind of performance pressure does an endangered male panda feel when his captors bring the last remaining female panda to his cage?
–If murderers can get into heaven by accepting Jesus, just how awkward is it when they run into their victims?
Join Simon Rich as he explores the extraordinary and hilarious desperation that resides in ordinary life, from cradle to grave.
"Hilarious." –Jon Stewart
–If your girlfriend gives you some “love coupons” and then breaks up with you, are the coupons still valid?
–What kind of performance pressure does an endangered male panda feel when his captors bring the last remaining female panda to his cage?
–If murderers can get into heaven by accepting Jesus, just how awkward is it when they run into their victims?
Join Simon Rich as he explores the extraordinary and hilarious desperation that resides in ordinary life, from cradle to grave.
"Hilarious." –Jon Stewart
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31 reviews
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The piece is a very humorous rendition that soothes the indolent mind and engage the literary ego.Simon,as if i know him from thence,made a so very beautiful intellectual encounter with himself which has made the work extra-ordinary.The royal caricarture in the personea of the brunein monarch is as if one were a spectator of a stage show in a Roman arena of old.The woman in her usual characteristics of muted indifference and arrogant peacocking and a late and always later acceptance after the value was lost seem universal even in the mr.rich's encounter.It is a must read for all lovers of humourous wranglings in an intelligent thearetical setting.bashir ,Abuja- Nigeria.
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May 28, 2023
absolutely hilarious!!
About the author
Simon Rich has written for The New Yorker, GQ, Mad, The Harvard Lampoon, and other magazines. He was part of the writing staff of Saturday Night Live and Pixar. He is the author of a novel, Elliot Allagash, and two humor collections, Free-Range Chickens and Ant Farm, which was a finalist for the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor. He lives in Brooklyn.
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