Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first time I ever saw Will Ferrell was in a sketch with Roy where they played a barbershop-type a cappella duo singing to passersby in the Main Street section of Disneyland. #2 I had come up with the idea of doing a sketch about Johnny Carson, but instead of parody, we would do a straight impression of The Tonight Show. I would be the missing link between man and monkey, and I would hump Roy’s face while I sucked-slapped Will’s. #3 I had to stay constantly in shape to perform Mr. Peepers for a year and a half at the same high-energy level the character demanded. I had to practice how to eat an apple in as many bites as possible in a matter of seconds, without biting my lip off. #4 I was a full-fledged regular cast member on SNL in 1996. My seventh show was the first of the 1996–97 season, and I was sharing a seventeenth-floor office with Colin Quinn. Colin was just a writer at the time, and he didn’t have that comedian thing of being always on.

本作は、喜劇役者クリス・カッタンが綴った、笑いの背後にある肉体と精神の凄絶な記録です。狂気的な役柄を演じ続けるための過酷な自己規律と、身体を削りながら生み出すユーモア。その執念は文学的な凄みを帯びており、読者は華やかな表舞台の裏側に潜む、静かな孤独と剥き出しの情熱に魂を揺さぶられるでしょう。 ウィル・フェレルら天才たちとの共鳴や、生放送という戦場で繰り広げられる葛藤も鮮烈です。これは単なる回顧録ではなく、一人の表現者が「笑い」のために己の何を差し出すのかを突きつける、壮絶な魂の肖像に他なりません。ページをめくるたび、彼の献身と喜劇への純粋な愛に、激しく胸を打たれるはずです。