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Description edit
First AMERICA, now EARTH. EARTH is the eagerly awaited new book from Emmy Award-winning Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart and his team of writers.
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Summary edit
Our Alien brethren have finally come to Earth...just in time for humanity to have already managed to end existence. Fortunately the great thinkers at the Daily Show foresaw this event and have prepared this guide to life on Earth so that Aliens can know what life with humans was like.
Quotes edit
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“She has survived being simultaneously pelted by all manner of asteroids, meteors, radiation and whatever else decided to smash into her as they joyrode around the universe. And she did it all without complaint...unless you consider the violent restructuring of land masses through earthquakes complaining.”
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“Due to scientific limitations and more than a touch of narcissism, we believed everything in the universe literally revolved around us. It was a theory called geocentrism, which was originally egocentrism, but they spelled it wrong.”
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“Question: I'm sorry to bring this up, but I'm duty-bound to ask: The Middles Ages. What happened to your work? You seemed to forget everything you knew. Answer: Yeah, that was an intense millennium for us. We took the fall of Rome pretty hard, and we weren't taking very good care of ourselves.”
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“As a society, we believed that only one thing was more important than caring for our sick and injured: ensuring that they first filled out the proper paperwork.”
Setting & Locations edit
- Earth: It's the planet humans lived on.
- China
- South America
- New York
- Russia
- England
- Africa
- Europe
- Asia
- United States
- Hollywood
First Sentence edit
Greetings Alien Brethren!
Table of Contents edit
To Our Alien Readers
To Our Human Readers
Chapter 1 - Earth
Chapter 2 - Life
Chapter 3 - Man
Chapter 4 - The Life Cycle
Chapter 5 - Society
Chapter 6 - Commerce
Chapter 7 - Religion
Chapter 8 - Science
Chapter 9 - Culture
Afterwards
Appendix A: Final Score
Appendix B: Why We're Not Here
Appendix C: What We Left Out
Acknowledgements
Series & Lists edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jon Stewart (Author)
Other Contributors:
- David Javerbaum (Author)
- Rory Albanese (Author)
- Steven Bodow (Author)
- Josh Lieb (Author)
- Kevin Bleyer (Contributor)
- Rich Blomquist (Contributor)
- Tim Carvell (Contributor)
- Wyatt Cenac (Contributor)
- Hallie Haglund (Contributor)
- J.R. Havlan (Contributor)
- Elliot Kalan (Contributor)
- Sam Means (Contributor)
- Jo Miller (Contributor)
- John Oliver (Contributor)
- Daniel Radosh (Contributor)
- Jason Ross
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780446579223
Page Count: 244
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780446579223
Page Count: 244
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 817
Subjects edit
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Political
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Religion
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Satire
- Books › Entertainment › Pop Culture
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