Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal television shows.

This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues ('Martin Luther King Jr.'s Worst Speech Ever') to intentionally bad theater ('Hitler Dinner Party: A Play'), from avant-garde fiction ('Obit for the Creator of Madlibs') to free-verse poetry that's funnier and more powerful than the work of Calvin Trillin, Jewel, and Robert Louis Stevenson combined.

Odenkirk's debut resembles nothing so much as a hilarious new sketch comedy show that's exclusively available as a streaming video for your mind. As Odenkirk himself writes in 'The Second Meeting of Jesus and Lazarus,' it is a book 'to be read aloud to yourself in the voice of Bob Newhart.'