Earth (The Book)
A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
A deadpan owner's manual for planet Earth, written for the aliens who will find it after humanity is gone, from The Daily Show team.
Billed as a guide left behind for whatever intelligent life discovers our ruins, this companion to America (The Book) has Stewart and his writers explain the human race to an alien audience. Chapters cover the body, science, culture, commerce and religion in the same deadpan textbook format, illustrated with charts and captions that grow steadily more absurd. The premise, that we narrate our own species to no one in particular once we are gone, gives the comedy a surprisingly mournful edge.
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