I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas

"Vituperative standup comedian Black (Me of Little Faith) delivers a caustic Christmas diatribe. Warning readers to ignore the book if they have a deep attachment to Christmastime, he notes, 'This book contains, like the celebration of Christmas, only 2 percent religion. Think of it as the yuletide equivalent of low-fat milk.' After recalling how he argued with the editor who urged him to write a Christmas book, Black delivers a full-scale Scrooge-styled screed. With chapters such as 'Meditations of a Jewish Santa,' 'The Hooker at Rockefeller Center,' and 'The Carol from Hell,' he rips into such seasonal traditions as Christmas cards, dinners, toys, advertising ('a primal scream of sales'), shopping ('Why don't you folks wait until the 26th of December when things are the cheapest?'), trees ('something magical about a Christmas tree all dazzled up in lights... almost as breathtaking as a hooker gone wild in spangles'), carols ('A shower is a place for singing, and on Christmas, it's where you should be caroling'), and gifts: 'At Chanukah we get nothing. We don't even get stockings.' With digressions on the human comedy and his personal life, Black spews forth much invective, but successfully exposes societal truths with riotous ripostes. (Nov.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright PWyxz LLC)

From the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic "New York Times"-bestselling author and "The Daily Show" regular comes a ferociously funny book about his least-favorite holiday: Christmas.

Lewis Black is a New York Times-bestselling author, stand-up comedian, actor, and playwright. Besides appearing regularly on The Daily Show (in his own segment, "Back in Black"), he has written and starred in a string of successful HBO and Comedy Central specials and one-man Broadway shows. He has won a Grammy, an Emmy, the American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Stand-up Comedian, and is a favorite guest of everyone from Larry King to Craig Ferguson to Conan O'Brien to the women of The View. He lives in New York City.