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The Best of the Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Scheft
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 567139
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 044657807X
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780446578073
ASIN: 044657807X
Publication Date: May 13, 2005
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Product Description
If sports are the dessert of life, Bill Scheft delivers a cream pie to the face. Every week in Sports Illustrated, Scheft delivers his signature brand of sports humor in his renowned column, The Show. This collection features the 100 "Best of the Best" of Scheft's columns, expanded and updated to include the most timely sports one-liners sure to appeal to everyone who considers a good sports joke a perfect compliment to a $4.00 hot day and a $5.75 beer.
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 Classic it ain't January 5, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bill's a pretty funny guy and I well remember his stand-up routines during those long cold nights at the Albany Times Union where he was a young sportswriter, but it doesn't come across very well here. He's at his best doing stand-up. His SI column has never worked either.
 The Best of the Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom August 6, 2005
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Bill Sheft is the best. This book is so great! I very much enjoyed reading this book and his weekly articles in SI.
 A hit and miss collection June 23, 2005
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
In this collection, Scheft has gathered some of his best material, along with adding some new jokes, to create a collection that has some ups to go along with too many downs. Too many of the jokes just fall flat (you can almost hear the little drum kick after some of them), and some of them already feel dated. There are some great lines, but they're unfortunately too few.
Scheft, a former writer for David Letterman, now writes what I consider to be one of the weaker elements of SI - a humor column that isn't often funny. I don't doubt that Scheft is funny, especially given the fact that Larry David sings his praises. However, that humor just doesn't come through in this book, and much of it can seem monotonous.
I think this may have worked better if the book was shorter, given that they could have been more selective about choosing material. Or perhaps they should have waited longer, until Scheft had enough quality jokes to justify the length of the book.
This is a fun book to flip through for a few minutes, but certainly not an essential read.
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