FROM Developing UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther Ruler Jr., to participating in the inauguration of Leader Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Crimson Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing at all, David Alan Grier examines how he — and America — possess changed for the better and the funnier.

Within these web pages, Grier imagines being called to serve in President Obama’s cabinet as the ‘secretary of mirth’; takes you to a outrageous and emotional election night party he about Barack Like Me: The Chocolate-Covered Truth hosted that didn’t move as planned; explains the true meaning of the ‘marvelous Negro’; recalls the formative episodes from his existence — including being rejected by the Black Panthers at their head office door and turning down the original offer to focus on In Living Color — as well as for the very first time ever sneaks you backstage at Dance with the Celebrities, where he exposes the inner workings of the show — the camaraderie between dancers and superstars, the excruciatingly painful rehearsals, the outrageous arrangements, and each hysterical instant of his four-episode appearance and subsequent public meltdown.

Grier unabashedly muses on politics, tradition, and race while recounting his own life story with this edgy, timeless, hilarious, and revelatory memoir and look at everything Barack.

Barack Like Me personally is David Alan Grier in his finest — the person, comic, and twenty-first-century thinker — funny, brilliant, and primary.