“With this charming, sardonic debut, stand up comedian and actor Todd Barry makes readers giggle as hard as the audiences at his shows” (Web publishers Weekly) within this hilarious reserve of travel essays from his time on tour in america, Canada, and Israel.

Hello. It’s Todd Barry. Yes, the massively famous comedian. I’ve billions of followers all around the globe, so I do my fair share of touring. While I really like doing displays in the big cities (NY, Philadelphia), I also like a great secondary marketplace ( about Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg: One Comedian’s Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World Ithaca, Bethlehem). Performing in these smaller sized places can be great because not absolutely all entertainers quit there on tour; they don’t expect to find you. They’re appreciative. They say things such as “Thank you for arriving at Hattiesburg” as much as they say “Nice show.” And nearly every city has their version of the hipster restaurant, so I will get in my comfort zone.

My original program was to reserve one secondary market show in all fifty claims, in about a yr, but that idea was funnier than anything in my act. So, rather than all fifty says in a season, my agent booked multiple displays in a whole lot of says, plus Israel and Canada.

MANY THANKS for Coming to Hattiesburg is component tour diary, component travel instruction, and component memoir (Yes, memoir. Just like the point presidents and former child stars get to write). Adhere to me on my trip of small clubs, and the casual big amphitheater. View me make a promoter clean the dressing room toilet in Connecticut, observe me stare at beached turtles in Maui, and see how I react when Lars from Metallica turns up to find out me at a rec center in Northern California.

I’d want to tell you more, but I have to go book a air travel to Evansville, Indiana.