“Like the Bible, if the Bible were narrated by Mel Brooks on crack-laced manna,” says The Washington Post of God's telleth-all memoir, revised and updated for the Post-Apocalyptic Era. Includes 100 top tweets from @thetweetofgod and a fully revised Book of Revelations!Over the course of his long and distinguished career, God has literally seen it all. And not just seen. In fact, the multi-talented deity has played a pivotal role in many major events, including the Creation of the universe, the entirety of world history, the life of every human being who has ever lived, and the successful transitioning of American Idol into the post–Simon Cowell era. Now, as the Earth he has godded so magnificently draws to a Mayan-induced close, God breaks his 1,400-year literary silence with his final masterpiece, The Last Testament. As dictated to his mortal amanuensis, Emmy Award–winning comedy writer and former executive producer of The Daily Show David Javerbaum, God looks back with unprecedented candor on his time in the public sector.
Sometimes preachy, sometimes holier-than-thou, but always lively, The Last Testament is “a bawdy circus of theological vaudeville…determined to sacrifice every sacred cow on the altar of farce” (The Washington Post).
Industry Reviews
"This book plays spin doctor for the Big Guy, in the form of a really new testament. Author David Javerbaum, formerly a writer and producer for 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, ' brings that show's arch snappiness to his task, laying out what God really had in mind . . . If you're a churchgoer you might ask, well, isn't this sacrilegious? In many places, decidedly so. And if the human temptation is to continually imagine God in our own image (face it, you think God agrees with your positions on abortion, taxes and political parties, don't you?), "The Last Testament" does so with a vengeance, quoting a pop-culture-savvy Creator who despises Sarah Palin and holds reliably progressive social views. . . . People of faith should be glad when religious themes show up in popular discourse, even if it's for a cheap joke. Better to be satirized than to be ignored. And, of course, the premise of 'The Daily Show' is in effect: Satire can be the best vehicle for truth."--"Buffalo News" "Oh, God . . . There are enough laughs here, not to mention a dazzling underlying knowledge of theology, to give plenty of props to Javerbaum."--"Booklist" (starred review) ""The Last Testament" is billed as a message from God as transcribed by David Javerbaum, the former head writer and executive producer of 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, ' whose specialty is chutzpah. With no apparent qualms Mr. Javerbaum steps into the infinitely big shoes of the Almighty to deliver a series of pronouncements, gags, parodies of Biblical passages and even a 12-step program envisioned from God's point of view. . . . "The Last Testament "is fearless . . . a recklessly funny set of gags about all things religious and quite a few things secular too.""--"Janet Maslin", The New York Times" "Presented as 'A Memoir by God, ' the book comes divided into chapters and numbered verses like the Bible, if the Bible were narrated by Mel Brooks on crack-laced manna. It's a bawdy circus of theological vaudeville--Shadrach, Meshach and To-bed-we-go!--determined to sacrifice every sacred cow on the altar of farce."--Ron Charles, "The Washington Post" "A 'memoir' by God ["The Last Testament"] does what "The Daily Show" does so well--it satirizes religion by both taking it seriously and not taking it seriously at all, using humor to both point out the inconsistencies of the holiest texts and to describe God's codependent relationship with celebrities."--Salon.com "I can't be sure, but I think the famously blasphemous Mark Twain (who once said he didn't want to go to heaven because he hated harp music) would have chuckled his way through Javerbaum's book. Maybe even snorted. Because it's very funny. Offensive to some, for sure, but very funny."--A.J. Jacobs for "The Globe & Mail" "Damned comical. Amen."--"Kirkus Reviews" "A blithely blasphemous satire of monotheism. . . . Adherents of every Abrahamic faith will find plenty of hilarious, offensive manna for thought in these revelations."--"Publishers Weekly" "I want every Christian I know to have a copy of this book."--NewAtheism.Blogspot.com "Absurdity reigns in "The Last Testament". . . . A wickedly funny introduction to the opinions and modus operandi of God, 'King of the Universe.'"--ShelfAwareness.com "Spit-take funny."--"The Jewish Daily Forward"
