Bob Smith (6) (1960–2018)
Autor de Openly Bob
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Sobre El Autor
Bob Smith was born in Buffalo, New York on December 24, 1958. He was a comedian and writer. He was the first openly gay male comedian to star in his own special on HBO, which aired in 1994, and to perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He also appeared on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher mostrar más and MTV's Wisecrack. He wrote several collections of essays including Openly Bob, which won the LAMBDA Book Award for humor; Way to Go, Smith; and Treehab: Tales from My Natural Wild Life. He also wrote novels including Selfish and Perverse and Remembrance of Things I Forgot. As a television writer, he wrote for The MTV Video Music Awards, Dennis Miller, Roseanne, and MADtv. He died from complications of ALS on January 20, 2018 at the age of 59. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Bob Smith
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In Search of Stonewall: The Riots at 50, The Gay and Lesbian Review at 25, Best Essays 1994-2018 (2019) — Contribuidor — 74 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1960-12-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-01-20
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- University of Buffalo
- Ocupaciones
- comedian
- Organizaciones
- Funny Gale Males
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 800
- Popularidad
- #31,872
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 18
- ISBNs
- 76
- Idiomas
- 3
"The first person I want to thank is Michael Carroll, who read a time-travel short story I'd written and told me, 'I think this should be a novel.'"
I strongly disagree. This would have been a fine short story, and Smith writes really well, with an acerbic sense of humor that is actually funny. But the relentless digressions and left-wing politics, jokes, and even Dick Cheney showing up with a gun and stalking the narrator into the past—well, it was all a bit too much. The first chapter boded well; it was sort of a plot mess after that.… (más)