Naked Pictures of Famous People

Naked Pictures of Famous People: Another Example of Blatantly False Advertising is a collection of essays and short stories written in 1998 by Jon Stewart, who now hosts The Daily Show. It was the first book Stewart wrote, followed by America (The Book), which he co-authored with "The Daily Show" staff. Naked Pictures was a national best seller, known for its biting wit and political satire. It features several different formats for its chapters, from two person dialogues to formal letters.

The "chapters" include:

  • "Breakfast at Kennedy's" - A journal of a man's friendship with John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family.
  • "A Very Hanson Christmas: 1996-1999" - Christmas newsletters from the Hanson family which get increasingly disturbing as the boys become famous.
  • "Lack of Power: The Ford Tapes" - Lost tape recordings from the Ford administration.
  • "Martha Stewart's Vagina" - A Martha Stewart show script where she tells viewers how to furbish their vaginas.
  • "The New Judaism" - Jon presents ideas to save a dying religion.
  • "Pen Pals" - Letters from Princess Diana to Mother Teresa.
  • "Local News" - The death of the Taco Bell chihuahua.
  • "The Last Supper or the Dead Waiter" - The Last Supper from the point of view of a waiter.
  • "Da Vinci: The Lost Notebook" - Da Vinci's sketches describing unusual inventions.
  • "The Cult" - Jon imagining himself as a cult leader.
  • "Five Under Five" - Five notable kids under five years old.
  • "The Recipe" - A recipe for an awards show.
  • "The Devil and William Gates" - Bill Gates sells his soul to the devil.
  • "Vincent and Theo on AOL" - Jon posing as Vincent van Gogh on an AOL chat room
  • "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold" - A man who plots revenge at his high school reunion with the aid of a monster he created.
  • "Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview" - An interview with an apologetic Adolf Hitler on Larry King Live.
  • "Lenny Bruce: The Making of a Sitcom" - A fictional sitcom by Lenny Bruce.
  • "Microsoft Word '98 Suggested Spelling and Usage" - A list of spell check suggestions Jon encountered while writing the book.

Perhaps inspired by the title of the book, Stewart's collaboration with The Daily Show's team, America (The Book), actually included doctored "naked pictures" of the nine members of the Supreme Court.

Famous quotes containing the words naked, pictures, famous and/or people:

    “Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people ... have to walk out of the shadows.”
    —Albert Maltz, U.S. screenwriter, Malvin Wald, screenwriter, and Jules Dassin. Narrator, in The Naked City (film)

    “There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!”
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)