num_pages: 256
description: When Norm Macdonald one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time was approached to write a celebrity memoir he flatly refused calling the genre one step below instruction manuals. Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript a genre-smashing book about comedy tragedy love loss war and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir Norm replied Call it anything you damn like.
language: English
title: Based on a True Story: A Memoir
publisher: Random House