This is quite simply the funniest book I've ever read(number 2 being "
Why Not Me?", also by
Franken)
Not only is the humor intelligent and creative(e.g. the entire chapter devoted to a fictional Vietnam War story using as characters all the hawkish Republican draft-dodgers), but again and again throughout the book, the complete and utter hypocrisy of much of the Republican Party is shown. You have Gingrich the moralist who divorced his first wife while she was in the hospital for cancer surgery, many other Republicans in the moral majority also on their second wife, many of the Republican hawks whose rich dads got them out of the draft, Limbaugh who mocks the poor and yet was on the government dole for years of his life, etc.
Still, the most redeeming feature of this book in my mind is that more than once it left me literally gasping for breath because I was laughing so hard.