by The Believer
John Oliver is currently a writer and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is also a fully qualified subject of the queen. He lives in New York City.
Patton Oswalt is a writer/actor/comedian/producer/asthmatic who lives in Burbank, California.
Martha Plimpton currently makes her living on Broadway, speaking loudly in front of thousands of strangers while pretending they are not there. In the past year she has done two Shakespeare plays and a trilogy by Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, for which she received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award.
Harold Ramis is a Chicago-based film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. His credits include Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, Vacation, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, Analyze This, Bedazzled, The Ice Harvest, and Year One.
Amy Sedaris is an acclaimed career waitress who occasionally writes and performs when her schedule permits. She lives in New York City.
Sarah Silverman is a comedian and actress. She has her own TV show on Comedy Central called The Sarah Silverman Program. If you shave the hair away, she has a beautiful face.
Paul F. Tompkins has been performing stand-up comedy for what feels like forever. You can see him on television via Best Week Ever and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Mr. Tompkins was born in the 1900s.
Sarah Vowell’s books include Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She is a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Life.
David Wain is a New York–based director, writer, and actor. You may know him from Stella (the megasmash Comedy Central series), Wet Hot American Summer (the cult film he directed and cowrote), or The State (the critically acclaimed MTV comedy series).
Rainn Wilson is best known for playing Dwight Schrute on the NBC series The Office. He’s also appeared in movies such as Almost Famous, Juno, The Rocker, and the upcoming Hesher and Peep World.
Lizz Winstead is cocreator of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and cofounder of Air America Radio. Currently, Lizz stars in Wake Up World, an off-Broadway and Web show; tours the country doing stand-up; and is a contributor on MSNBC’s The Ed Show.
A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL, APRIL 2010
Copyright © 2010 by Believer Inc.
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Many of these selections were first published in The Believer. All selections are copyright to the contributors.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
You’re a horrible person, but I like you : the Believer book of advice / with Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen, Judd Apatow, & many more; introduction by David Cross, edited by Eric Spitznagel.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-47672-2
1. American wit and humor. 2. Advice columns—Humor.
I. The Believer magazine.
PN6165.Y68 2010
814′.54—dc22
2010001857
www.vintagebooks.com
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION BY DAVID CROSS
AZIZ ANSARI
JUDD APATOW
FRED ARMISEN
MARIA BAMFORD
TODD BARRY
SAMANTHA BEE
MICHAEL IAN BLACK AND MICHAEL SHOWALTER
ANDY BOROWITZ
MICHAEL CERA
VERNON CHATMAN AND JOHN LEE
ROB CORDDRY
LARRY DOYLE
PAUL FEIG
JIM GAFFIGAN
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS
JANEANE GAROFALO
DANIEL HANDLER
TODD HANSON
TIM HEIDECKER AND ERIC WAREHEIM
ED HELMS
BUCK HENRY
MINDY KALING
THOMAS LENNON
AL MADRIGAL
AASIF MANDVI
MARC MARON
ADAM MCKAY
EUGENE MIRMAN
MORGAN MURPHY
BOB ODENKIRK
JOHN OLIVER
PATTON OSWALT
MARTHA PLIMPTON
HAROLD RAMIS
AMY SEDARIS
SARAH SILVERMAN
PAUL F. TOMPKINS
SARAH VOWELL
DAVID WAIN
RAINN WILSON
LIZZ WINSTEAD
THE HORRIBLE PEOPLE