Good Strive: Tales of Finest Intentions and Combined Outcomes

Emmy-Award successful author and comic Josh Gondelman’s assortment of non-public tales of finest intentions and blended outcomes.

Josh Gondelman is aware of a factor or two about making an attempt—and failing. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comedian—dubbed a “pathological sweetheart” by the New York Observer—is understood all through the trade as one in every of comedy’s true “good guys.” Not surprisingly, he’s endured his share of last-place finishes. However he retains on bouncing again.

On this assortment of hilarious and poignant essays (together with his acclaimed New York Instances piece “What if I Bombed at My Personal Marriage ceremony?”), Josh celebrates a lifetime of good intentions—and blended outcomes. His true tales of romantic calamities, skilled misfortunes, and eventual triumphs reinforce the notion: we get out of the world what we put into it. Whether or not he’s adopting a canine from a suspicious stranger, mitigating a disastrous highway journey, or making an attempt MDMA for the primary (and solely) time, Josh solely needs one of the best for everybody—at the same time as his makes an attempt to do the suitable factor often implode.

Filled with the nice and cozy and relatable humor that’s made him a favourite on the comedy membership circuit, Good Strive solidifies Josh Gondelman’s fame as not only a good man, however a talented observer of the human situation.