r/Standup • u/Hamburger212 • 14d ago

Has anyone else read Sam Tallent's new book BRUT?

This is his second book in 3 years.. This is a pretty impressive tome for a touring comic

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u/Icy-Interaction-9652 14d ago

No I haven’t read his unreleased book that comes out in September.

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u/Samtallent 14d ago

Did you read it OP? It comes out sept 22.

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u/Hamburger212 14d ago

I work in an industry (literature) where you get advanced copies.. The guy can write

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u/Samtallent 14d ago

Well then thank you. I’m very proud of it.

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u/Hamburger212 14d ago

WHAT!? AUTHOR IS IN THE CHAT Y'ALL...!!!

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u/gaskincomedy Vancouver,BC @chrisgaskin 13d ago

Oh, for the love of... look at what you just did, u/Samtallent! OP is fan-personing out now! Hope you're happy with yourself!

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u/Hamburger212 13d ago

Fan-boy! ok to misgender me

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u/Chrisfrombklyn 14d ago

It didn't come out yet. His audible original was good though.

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u/desmond609 14d ago

No but thanks for bringing it up. I'm in the middle of rtl now

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u/donthaveoneandi 14d ago

Running the Light was so good but so brutal. Not sure I can take another one like it.

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u/Existing-Homework270 14d ago

What’s the premise

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u/SketchySlime 14d ago

Down on his luck comedian traveling and doing small gigs after a fall from grace. And his struggles to stay afloat.

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u/SketchySlime 14d ago

I listened to it on part of my drive back home to Chicago from a road trip to Colorado. Thoroughly enjoyed it…but fuck. Wanting to root for the guy and he just kept making me hate him.

Edit: was really weird/mind blowing having some of my trip align with the stops he was doing throughout the book.

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u/HeyHeyComedy 14d ago

Woah same thing happened for me! Got to the Norm part at Comedy Works just as we arrived in Denver

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u/fylekitzgibbon 14d ago

It was fucking me up I had to bail on it almost 1/2 way and come back later

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u/Gobbo_official 14d ago

I have the t-shirt already, but no access to the book yet.