Book description
The global economy has fallen to pieces like a cheap jigsaw puzzle
in an earthquake. Now it is time for the financial world to pick up
the baton of change, hold it proudly above its head, and club some
sense into itself with it.
Luckily Andy Zaltzman -- comedian and
economics novice extraordinaire - is here to help. In this much-needed
and hilarious companion to the crisis, he confronts the big issues
side-on. Questions answered and/or dodged include:
Is human life
still economically viable?
What face should a politician pull
whilst discussing the economy?
If you put an infinite number of
monkeys in the London Stock Exchange, would the markets go up or down?
Andy Zaltzman was born in obscurity in 1974. He began his stand-up
comedy career in 1997, and, three gigs later, retired due to popular
demand. He came out of retirement in 1999, since when he has performed
all over the British Isles, as well as in America and Australia.
Co-founder, -writer and -star of the sporadically-acclaimed Radio 4
microsmashes 'The Department' and 'Political Animal', he has also
appeared on 'The Now Show', 'The News Quiz' and 'Armando Iannucci's
Charm Offensive'. He has written for several series of 'Bremner, Bird
& Fortune' on Channel 4. He is currently one half of TimesOnline's
hit satirical podcast 'The Bugle', alongside John Oliver ('The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart'). One of iTunes' Podcasts Of The Year in 2007,
'The Bugle' features Oliver and Zaltzman's trademark comedic Molotov
cocktail of incisive political comedy and outright bullshit. He also
writes for The Times newspaper. Zaltzman's previous books include no
previous books. He lives somewhere in the United Kingdom, and is
currently married to his first wife. He is completely unqualified to
write a book on economics. He prefers sport.
