Obama's BlackBerry
By Kasper Hauser
(Little, Brown and Company, Hardcover, 9780316074353, 144pp.)
Publication Date: June 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook
Categories: Topic - Political
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When Obama stated that if elected, he would keep his Blackberry, debate echoed through Washington and among the ranks of the Secret Service. What would it be like to have a president who could Twitter, send text messages, and navigate the web with ease? What would it be like to receive a text message from inside the Oval Office and, most importantly, what would it say?
Kasper Hauser is a San Francisco-based comedy group. They are the authors of Weddings of the Times, a parody of the New York Times wedding pages, and SkyMaul, which the San Francisco Chronicle called "wicked funny," and Salon.com called "the perfect sendup." The Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast has been called "brilliant" by New York magazine and "wonderfully realized" by The Times of London. The group's members have written for HBO and appeared on "Comedy Central" and "This American Life." (www.kasperhauser.com)
Praise for SKYMAUL:
"Fiendishly funny."--San Francisco Chronicle
"The funniest thing you read this year."--NPR's Markeplace
"The perfect send-up."--Salon.com
"A hilarious and wildly inventive spoof."--Time Out NY
A "smart, warped spoof."--Austin Chronicle
"The D.U.I mask really works!"--David Foster Wallace
"You will laugh yourself sad."--Patton Oswalt
"Madly funny, full of wild invention."--George Saunders
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