The Best of Stuntology

Stuntology delights youngsters and adults alike - and imagine, no batteries required! Now they can amuse others and embarrass themselves live, by performing the silliest, stupidest, funniest pranks and parlor tricks right in the comfort of their own living room. Or better yet, at any fancy restaurant, cocktail party, classroom, or business meeting. Even a doctor's office.

Created by a professional musician who figured out a unique way to stay amused on the road, Stuntology is a collection of more than 300 off-the-wall ideas for activities that the author affectionately calls stunts. Each is illustrated step-by-step in a charmingly folk-art comic-strip style, and every one works. Stunts include Open a Beer with Your Eye Socket Stunt, the best way to talk to a telemarketer—in pure gibberish, the Medicine Cabinet Stunt - to capture nosy guests. And a Salami Stunt, not to be tried unless you are profoundly bored. This is a funny, funny book — goofy, inspired, and filled with an irresistible irreverence, a pure and rare delight even if you don't perform a single stunt. Paperback, 326 pages, illustrated.

"I only wish I'd been given this book when I was nine." Ira Glass, host of PRI's This American Life