Mr Funny Pants

Showalter was born in Princeton, NJ. His mother is Elaine Showalter-the highly esteemed author, literary critic and professor. At NYU he joined an improv troupe known as The New Group. They changed their name to The State and began creating video shorts for an MTV show called You Wrote It, You Watch It, hosted by Jon Stewart. The State was then picked up as its own show, which aired for two years on MTV.

'Showalter is a comic genius. This is, cover to cover, the funniest book I've ever read!'(Dear Mike, Haven't time to check it out yet. Do you want to just write a quote and put my name on it? Best, Ben) - Ben StillerHere's the deal: I think Michael Showalter is a genius. And I don't use that term lightly. This book is brave, merciless, and soulful and I think that by that I actually mean stupid, smart and very funny (I mostly just wanted to use the word 'merciless' in a sentence.) If you see it on a friend's shelf do yourself a favor and just take it. Not the shelf. Just the book. Unless of course you need a shelf. Merciless!!! - Paul RuddI read Michael's book on a train. It was funny and engaging. I also once took a train with Michael. I wish that Michael, as a passenger sitting next to me, was as funny and engaging as his book was. - Janeane GarofaloProcrastination in written form. This book, like all great works, is honest, absurd and absolutely pointless. - Amy PoehlerWith MR. FUNNY PANTS, Showalter deconstructs books down to their core, then builds them back up into a swirling core-nado. Which is a tornado made out of book cores. It's not a real thing. This book is funny. - Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone of SNL and The Lonely IslandShowalter, Michael has written a very clever book. And he has written about writing a book, cleverly. Showalter, Michael asked me to write a blurb. It was easy to do-here it is: 'I very much really really liked this Mr. Funny Pants - a book so enjoyable that blurbing about it is so very easy. - Zach GalifianakisMR. FUNNY PANTS is unlike any book I've ever read. It's this weird, hilarious, choose-your-own-adventure inside Michael Showalter's brain -which is, of course, brilliant. I was at first skeptical of the premise of deconstructing the process of writing a book, but 10 pages in, I was literally crying with laughter and by the time he got to analyzing his own high school poetry, I could no longer read the book in public without embarrassing myself. - Mike Birbiglia, author of Sleepwalk With MeMichael Showalter: amusing trousers, singular mind. - Sarah Vowell, New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates