Earth (The Book)
A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
David Javerbaum
Rory Albanese
Steve Bodow
Josh Lieb
Kevin Bleyer
Rich Blomquist
Tim Carvell
Hallie Haglund
J. R. Havlan
Elliott Kalan
Sam Means
Jo Miller
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race is a 2010 humor book written by Jon Stewart and other writers of The Daily Show, and is a sequel to America (The Book).
Written in the past tense, the book's stated purpose is to serve as a Baedeker travel guide for an alien civilization that discovers Earth after humanity has died out, most likely by its own hands. As such, Earth (The Book) attempts to chronicle the history of the planet and the human race from the beginning to the present day, and also tries to explain human concepts and emotions such as "love" and "work" for its alien readers.[1]
The book follows a similar format to America (The Book), being written in the style of a textbook and featuring many images, including visual gags. One controversial visual gag in America was a photoshopped image of the United States Supreme Court justices nude; a similar gag appeared in Earth which was an illustration of human anatomy that featured a nude man, one half of the man depicting Larry King.
Table of contents[edit]
To Our Alien Readers
To Our Human Readers
Ch. 1: Earth
Ch. 2: Life
Ch. 3: Man
Ch. 4: The Life Cycle
Ch. 5: Society
Ch. 6: Commerce
Ch. 7: Religion
Ch. 8: Science
Ch. 9: Culture
Afterword
Appendix A: Final Scores
Appendix B: Why We're Not Here
Appendix C: What We Left Out
Keith Staskiewicz of Entertainment Weekly gave the book an A-, praising it as "The Devil's Dictionary for a new generation" and concludes that the book's humor and writing style might lead the reader to conclude that "this would actually be a fairly comprehensive guide for extraterrestrial visitors", adding "just so long as they have a sense of humor".[1]
As of December 5, 2010, Earth (The Book) had spent 10 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list; for four weeks it was number one on the Hardcover Nonfiction list.[2]
On February 13, 2011, Earth (The Book) was awarded a Grammy at the 2011 53rd Annual Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album.
America (The Book)
I Am America (And So Can You!)
I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)
America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't
^ a b Staskiewicz, Keith (September 8, 2010). "Earth (The Book) (2010)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
^ Schuessler, Jennifer. "Hardcover". The New York Times.
Craig Kilborn (1996–1998)
Jon Stewart (1999–2015)
Trevor Noah (2015–present)
Recurring segments
Kilborn's tenure
Stewart's tenure
Noah's tenure
The Colbert Report (2005–2014)
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (2015–2016)
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper (2017–2018)
2009 CNBC criticism
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Stephen Colbert (character)
Who Made Huckabee?
The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
Stan Freberg – The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows (1959)
Carl Sandburg – Lincoln Portrait (1960)
Robert Bialek (producer) – FDR Speaks (1961)
Leonard Bernstein – Humor in Music (1962)
Charles Laughton – The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton (1963)
Edward Albee (playwright) – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964)
That Was the Week That Was – BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy (1965)
Goddard Lieberson (producer) – John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him (1966)
Edward R. Murrow – Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I The War Years (1967)
Everett Dirksen – Gallant Men (1968)
Rod McKuen – Lonesome Cities (1969)
Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter – We Love You Call Collect (1970)
Martin Luther King Jr. – Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam (1971)
Les Crane – Desiderata (1972)
Bruce Botnick (producer) – Lenny performed by the original Broadway cast (1973)
Richard Harris – Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1974)
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore – Good Evening (1975)
James Whitmore – Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1976)
Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones and Orson Welles - Great American Documents (1977)
Julie Harris – The Belle of Amherst (1978)
Orson Welles – Citizen Kane Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979)
John Gielgud – Ages of Man - Readings From Shakespeare (1980)
Pat Carroll – Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein (1981)
Orson Welles – Donovan's Brain (1982)
Tom Voegeli (producer) – Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Movie on Record performed by Various Artists (1983)
William Warfield – Lincoln Portrait (1984)
Ben Kingsley – The Words of Gandhi (1985)
Mike Berniker (producer) & the original Broadway cast – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1986)
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Sam Phillips – Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions (1987)
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days (1988)
Jesse Jackson – Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson (1989)
Gilda Radner – It's Always Something (1990)
George Burns – Gracie: A Love Story (1991)
Ken Burns – The Civil War (1992)
Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Robert O'Keefe – What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS (1993)
Maya Angelou – On the Pulse of Morning (1994)
Henry Rollins – Get in the Van (1995)
Maya Angelou – Phenomenal Woman (1996)
Hillary Clinton – It Takes a Village (1997)
Charles Kuralt – Charles Kuralt's Spring (1998)
Christopher Reeve – Still Me (1999)
LeVar Burton – The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. (2000)
2001−present
Sidney Poitier, Rick Harris & John Runnette (producers) – The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2001)
Quincy Jones, Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) and Elisa Shokoff (producer) – Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones (2002)
Maya Angelou and Charles B. Potter (producer) – A Song Flung Up to Heaven / Robin Williams, Nathaniel Kunkel (engineer/mixer) and Peter Asher (producer) – Live 2002 (2003)
Al Franken and Paul Ruben (producer) – Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2004)
Bill Clinton – My Life (2005)
Barack Obama – Dreams from My Father (2006)
Jimmy Carter – Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis / Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee - With Ossie and Ruby (2007)
Barack Obama and Jacob Bronstein (producer) – The Audacity of Hope (2008)
Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood – An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2009)
Michael J. Fox – Always Looking Up (2010)
Jon Stewart – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) (2011)
Betty White – If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't) (2012)
Janis Ian – Society's Child (2013)
Stephen Colbert – America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't (2014)
Joan Rivers – Diary of a Mad Diva (2015)
Jimmy Carter – A Full Life: Reflections at 90 (2016)
Carol Burnett – In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox (2017)
Carrie Fisher – The Princess Diarist (2018)
Jimmy Carter – Faith: A Journey for All (2019)
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