The Secret of Dave Barry’s Humor: Class Clown Memoir and Florida Tales

One of the funniest guys I've ever spoken to, and I always enjoy speaking to, Dave Barry. He's basically been America's top humorist for about five decades, since the early 80s, and he had a column that was syndicated in 500 newspapers. He's written a ton of books, and this is his third time on the podcast, but his latest book is Class Clown, The Memoirs of a Professional Wise Ass. We get deep into it in this episode. This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host.

This is the James Alteger Show. So Dave Barry, author of a memoir. You've written all these books and now you finally write a memoir. What kind of, why did you do that? Several reasons.

The probably the most kind of commercial one was like, I need all, I'd finished a book a couple years ago, uh a novel, and uh I was talking with my editor and my agent the way you do, like, what's gonna next book gonna be? And gradually we came around to memoirs that are popular. People like memoirs. I was initially reluctant, but they they convinced me that it was a good idea. Why were you reluctant?

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