Based on a True Story

***NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER • **“Driving, wild and hilarious” ( *The* *Washington Post* ), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and *Saturday Night Live* veteran.** **When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”