Everybody Is Awful: (Except You!) Audiobook (Free)

A rant-ish memoir with the veteran stand-up comedian and former cohost of this Metal Show, using a foreword by Jim Norton

Twitter Trolls. Facebook Freaks. Instagram Exhibitionists. These are just some of the animals our technology-obsessed lifestyle has spawned in its mission to simplify our lives. The madness is indeed universal now that everyone has dealt with it. You log in to Facebook, read a ridiculous post, and instantly want to tell your ‘friend’ to look have relations with himself. Sure, about Everybody Can be Dreadful: (Except You!) social media may maintain us connected, but it is definitely a breeding floor for idiots, and these idiots possess crowd-sourced a storm of useless details, corny jokes, and douchebag theatre that’s throwing away our period and screwing with our peace of mind.

Fortunately, popular comedian and television host Jim Florentine has a solution for those of us over the verge of bashing our iPhones to pieces. In Everybody Can be Awful, Florentine episodes awful people and terrible situations with the same biting satire and cringe-worthy laughter that produced him famous on tv shows like Crank Yankers, Meet the Creeps, and That Metal Show.

On the way, Everybody Is Awful takes readers through the author’s formative years, a time filled with rebellion and horrible behavior, towards the crazy early days of his job as a stand-up comedian. Florentine also recounts how he created an obsession with pranks that morphed into his distinctively vigilante style of comedy and made him one of the most renowned prank callers ever.

Florentine excels in channeling the core rage we all feel at the seemingly little annoyances of existence, and his fans love the cathartic experience of his hilarious ranting and raving, a custom continued in Everybody Is Dreadful. Acting being a de facto therapist, Florentine diagnoses awful behavior, shames terrible people, and offers comedic takes on how to reclaim our lives from it all.