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The Resource Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald, (electronic resource)
Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald, (electronic resource)
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The item Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
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- A possibly true memoir by the former SNL cast member, raconteur, gambler and stand-up comedian relates his origins in a rural Canadian town, his epically disastrous appearance on "Star Search," and his eventual stumbles into fame
- "As its title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life--more or less--from his origins in a rural small town in the-back-of-beyond Canada to an epically disastrous appearance on Star Search, to his possibly incredible account of auditioning for Lorne Michaels and his memorable run as the anchor of Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update." But Based on a True Story is much more than a memoir, it's a hilarious, inspired, very meta imagining of his life, as told to a deeply disturbed ghost writer whose teetering sanity and bruised ego threaten to take down the entire narrative--and possibly the comic with it. Peppered with classic jokes and long mythologized Hollywood stories, this wildly adventurous, tense, totally original, and absurdly funny memoir turns the conventional "comic's memoir" on its head and leaves the reader delightfully off kilter"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages)
- Isbn
- 9780812993639
- Label
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Title
- Based on a true story
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Norm Macdonald
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- A possibly true memoir by the former SNL cast member, raconteur, gambler and stand-up comedian relates his origins in a rural Canadian town, his epically disastrous appearance on "Star Search," and his eventual stumbles into fame
- "As its title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life--more or less--from his origins in a rural small town in the-back-of-beyond Canada to an epically disastrous appearance on Star Search, to his possibly incredible account of auditioning for Lorne Michaels and his memorable run as the anchor of Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update." But Based on a True Story is much more than a memoir, it's a hilarious, inspired, very meta imagining of his life, as told to a deeply disturbed ghost writer whose teetering sanity and bruised ego threaten to take down the entire narrative--and possibly the comic with it. Peppered with classic jokes and long mythologized Hollywood stories, this wildly adventurous, tense, totally original, and absurdly funny memoir turns the conventional "comic's memoir" on its head and leaves the reader delightfully off kilter"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Macdonald, Norm
- Dewey number
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- 792.7/6028092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN2308.M23
- LC item number
- A3 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Macdonald, Norm
- Comedians
- Actors
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Label
- Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780812993639
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 0026545192
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780812993639
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 0026545192
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Comedians -- Canada -- Biography
- Macdonald, Norm, 1963-
- Actors -- Canada -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Audio Nonfiction
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