The producer of such sitcoms as "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," "One Day at a Time," and "The Facts of Life" traces fifty years in show business and politics while discussing his wartime contributions and experiences as a family man.

For more than 40 years - whether writing for Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country - Paul Mooney has been provocative, incisive...and absolutely hilarious. His comedy has always been indisputably real and raw, reflecting race issues in America, and this fascinating, fearless new memoir continues that unapologetically candid tradition.

An original writer for "Saturday Night Live" chronicles his own coming of age while offering an insider's view of the birth and rise of the groundbreaking television show, featuring stories about some of its greatest personalities.

"Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "Odyssey" from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago all the way to a dramatic career that is baffling to his friends, it's almost like there are two or three Bob Odenkirks... but there is just one and one is enough, frankly. Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting...