You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice (20 page)

Martha Plimpton
currently makes her living on Broadway, speaking loudly in front of thousands of strangers while pretending they are not there. In the past year she has done two Shakespeare plays and a trilogy by Tom Stoppard,
The Coast of Utopia
, for which she received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award.

Harold Ramis
is a Chicago-based film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. His credits include
Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, Vacation, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, Analyze This, Bedazzled, The Ice Harvest
, and
Year One
.

Amy Sedaris
is an acclaimed career waitress who occasionally writes and performs when her schedule permits. She lives in New York City.

Sarah Silverman
is a comedian and actress. She has her own TV show on Comedy Central called
The Sarah Silverman Program
. If you shave the hair away, she has a beautiful face.

Paul F. Tompkins
has been performing stand-up comedy for what feels like forever. You can see him on television via
Best Week Ever
and
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
. Mr. Tompkins was born in the 1900s.

Sarah Vowell’s
books include
Assassination Vacation
and
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
. She is a contributing editor for public radio’s
This American Life
.

David Wain
is a New York–based director, writer, and actor. You may know him from
Stella
(the megasmash Comedy Central series),
Wet Hot American Summer
(the cult film he directed and cowrote), or
The State
(the critically acclaimed MTV comedy series).

Rainn Wilson
is best known for playing Dwight Schrute on the NBC series
The Office
. He’s also appeared in movies such as
Almost Famous, Juno, The Rocker
, and the upcoming
Hesher
and
Peep World
.

Lizz Winstead
is cocreator of
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
and cofounder of Air America Radio. Currently, Lizz stars in
Wake Up World
, an off-Broadway and Web show; tours the country doing stand-up; and is a contributor on MSNBC’s
The Ed Show
.

A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL, APRIL
2010

Copyright © 2010 by
Believer Inc.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Many of these selections were first published in
The Believer
. All selections are copyright to the contributors.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
You’re a horrible person, but I like you : the Believer book of advice / with Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen, Judd Apatow, & many more; introduction by David Cross, edited by Eric Spitznagel.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-47672-2
1.  American wit and humor.  2.  Advice columns—Humor.
I.  The Believer magazine.
PN6165.Y68 2010
814′.54—dc22
2010001857

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