FDL Book Salon Welcomes The Daily Show’s Rob Kutner

You’ve got to admire Rob Kutner’s derring-do. As an Emmy-winning writer for the Daily Show and one of the co-authors of America: The Book, he was not content to sit back and let those Left Behind jokers be the sole beneficiaries of all the marketing potential presented by an impending apocalypse. If you plan on being one of the lucky ones to crawl out of the rubble the day after aliens land, or an asteroid strikes, or a vast nuclear winter thins out the neighborhood, his new book Apocalypse How is for you.

It’s an indispensable guide to turning the end of times to the best of times.

Personally, I’m looking forward to the fashion opportunities on the day God demonstrates his love for his only begotten son by Rapturing away all his supporters, leaving only those yawning with indifference and setting him into a steel cage death match with Satan. (I think they have some issues, sort of like the Bushes). Anyway, as Rob notes, the righteous shall be lifted up to heaven in their birthday suits, and their clothing will be left behind. I will no doubt fall short of the virtue requisite to keep me from burning in a fiery lake of hell for a thousand years, but the vintage fashion opportunities should be unparalleled.

Get your hands off my Louboutins, Magog you bitch!

When can we anticipate the arrival of this happy day? Well, as Rob notes, the timing is a bit tricky, and ambiguity has always been Nosradamus’s best friend. But the Mayans got specific long ago and predicted calamity in 2012. Skeptics note that if this turns out to be correct, it makes them better at predicting the demise of civilizations not their own. But the imminent timeline is nonetheless sure to strike a cord with those wistful with Y2K nostalgia.

I have to say, the great disappointment of the book is that it hasn’t found its way into the hands of a sure-to-be-irate James Dobson or a Bill Donahue (who could no doubt do for Rob what he did for Chocolate Jesus). If anyone has any great crackpot fundie connections, please encourage them to plan a local book burning party. (Royalties are royalties after all, it really doesn’t matter where they come from.)

In the meantime, Rob is here to answer all your queries about whether Jon Stewart is funnier than Steven Colbert, how his career survived writing for the Dennis Miller show. And feel free to tap into his expertise in what he fondly refers to as "the largest downsizing in human history."

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