emma's Reviews > A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape

Merry Christmas! My gift to all of you is the following:
- holiday spirit year round
- the ability to gently smile anytime you want
- the greatest television show ever to air
- an inescapable affinity for the Buffalo Bills.

All you have to do is google Joe Pera. Or read this book.

A lot has already been made of the wonder of Joe Pera's comedy, in New York Times profiles and on countless podcasts and in a bajillion tweets with between 1 and 4 likes, but not enough, if you ask me, has been written on this hellsite.

And this hellsite is my specialty.

Joe Pera has a quiet, kind sense of humor that almost escapes you before you laugh just in time. His show is nonsensical and perfect, made for soft-spoken people and introverts and weirdos, without having the horrible cringey pat-yourself-on-the-back style of most content in that niche.

I kind of can't even describe it to you, really. If you like people, and long for the simplicity of a bygone era, and are sometimes (or all the time) shy, and bean arches are something you could spend between 10 minutes and a year's worth of time on, interest wise, you're in the right place.

But basically, to everyone - welcome! And read this book.

Bottom line: It's taking everything in me to give up on the idea of gatekeeping Joe Pera.

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pre-review

i love joe pera and i love this book.

review to come / 4.5 stars

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currently-reading updates

i think being at an event so uncomfortable that you have to hide in the bathroom qualifies as "spooky"

clear ur shit prompt 9: a spooky book
follow my progress here

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tbr review

there is nothing i love in this life more than the comedic stylings of Joe Pera. except for books.

finally, they are one.