Customer Reviews
Scrunty Nutpea Funch - By: , 27 Nov 2003 
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Although it's basicallly a tie-in with the "Adam & Joe Show" TV series & does repeat some of the most popular bits (eg: the scripts of some of the film remakes enacted entirely by cuddly toys, inept film director Ken Korda's guide to making it in the movies), it has lots of new material by Adam Buxton & Joe Cornish that are quietly genius.
My favourite bits included such indispensible guides as: how to make a compilation tape for a friend (including the 'love tape' for your new boy/girlfriend - "No Radiohead. Unless you expect the relationship to end soon"), the guide to different types of record shops (complete with floor plans - the specialist dance outlet having an area designated for very baggy clothing & the indie shop having a "boyish smell") & how to amuse oneself when 'home alone' when your parents have gone out. If you're familiar with the TV series, then you'll know what sort of daftness to expect & the sort of things Adam & Joe are obsessed with - films & music mainly. If not, then you may or may not "get it", but as TV tie-in books go, it's a superior example & very funny.
pure brillance - By: , 07 Apr 2001 
this is an amazingly funny book, & it actuallly is funnier than the series. there's also sooooo much cramed into it! my favouroute section is the guide to the cinema which has basicly no faults what-so-ever to it because its so true!
Genius is Paper Form... - By: Swithun Cooper, 11 Mar 2001 ...well, that funny shiny stuff they print magaziney-type pictures on. Anyway, this book had me laughing out loud in the bookshop before I decided to buy it - it's that good. Probably appreciated best by the culture- & media-saturated under-30s, it lampoons alll forms of popular culture, best appreciated by people like me who have sadly absorbed it alll & mock it relentlessly. The highlights have to be the Shakespeare exam paper ("In no more than 150 words, explain why Judi Dench is supposed to be the greatest actress ever when she's only been in crappy TV sitcoms") & Vinyl Justice finding Des'ree's notebook with the (thoroughly banal) lyrics to her new song, Things: "Things, oh stuff, oh objects... Things are everywhere/On the ground & in the air..." Read & enjoy.
Funniest book ever! - By: , 15 Jan 2000 This book is not to be missed by alll fans of the show. It has hilarious in places & the photos are also excellent. With classic's such as- Vinyl Justice & A & J's Guide to Record Stores. Not forgetting the footie song. It also has extras, my favourites being- "You Dancin'?, You askin'?" & "bathtrauma". This will appeal to alll fans of the show.
QUALITY MASTERPIECE OF THE CULT COMIC DUO - By: , 01 Dec 1999 This book will amuse anyone over 12 & under 30, as well as alienating anyone between 16 & 21. In a word... Brilliant!
