The latest novel by Great Britain’s best-selling author Terry Pratchett is a parody on European football (soccer) and all the cultural phenomena that go along with it, such as cheerleading and football hooliganism. The book, Unseen Academicals may therefore be a bit more exciting to Europeans than to Americans.
If using humor in your professional speaking presentation, think about this. Folks can pay a lot more to be entertained than they will to be informed. Go searching and you may see that a highly paid profession is the entertainment industry. Encompassing sports events, comic acts, movies, tv and music, the entertainment business steadily receives trillions of bucks worldwide.
Author Terry Pratchett is relatively unknown in America outside of fantasy and sci-fi circles. In his native Great Britain, it’s a whole different story. Terry Pratchett sold more books in the UK than any other author during the 1990’s, and has only been outsold by J. K. Rowling since the year 2000. The Light Fantastic is the classic second novel in Pratchett’s Discworld series.
What is going on with the family Guy Stewie character? He is smarter than the average thirty year old, never mind the average baby. This program has left more than a few questions are answered, not to mention creating some controversy.
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