Dave Barry
America's Funniest Writer
America's Funniest Writer
Best-selling
author
of more
than 30 books like Boogers are My Beat, Dave Barry's Money
Secrets, Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway, Dave Barry is Not
Taking This Sitting Down, and
a new series of Peter Pan novels
including Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Peter and The Star
Catchers,
and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, for
Disney-Hyperion Books with he co-authors with his pal and fellow Rock
Bottom Remainders
"musician" Ridley
Pearson. Two of Dave Barry's best-selling novels, Big
Trouble and Tricky Business have become major
motion pictures, with stars like Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley
Tucci, Tom Sizemore, Sofia Vergara, Dennis Farina, Janeane Garofalo, Omar
Epps.
of more
than 30 books like Boogers are My Beat, Dave Barry's Money
Secrets, Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway, Dave Barry is Not
Taking This Sitting Down, and a new series of Peter Pan novels
including Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Peter and The Star
Catchers, and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, for
Disney-Hyperion Books with he co-authors with his pal and fellow Rock
Bottom Remainders "musician" Ridley
Pearson. Two of Dave Barry's best-selling novels, Big
Trouble and Tricky Business have become major
motion pictures, with stars like Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley
Tucci, Tom Sizemore, Sofia Vergara, Dennis Farina, Janeane Garofalo, Omar
Epps. Dave Barry's syndicated
humor column, at one time carried in more than 800 newspapers was the
most well received column in journalism history and made Dave so
celebrated that a popular CBS television sitcom, Dave's World,
starring Harry Anderson, was based on his day-to-day life.
Winner of the coveted Pulitzer Prize, a star
of stage, screen, television and print, finalist judge for the Robert
Benchley Society Award for Humor (two years running), Dave Barry's other
humor books include, Babies and Other Hazards of Sex, Dave
Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, Dave
Barry is from Mars AND Venus, and Dave Barry's Complete
Guide to Guys.
And this fall, watch for Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), published
by Putnam Books, and his newest book with Ridley Pearson, Peter and
the Secret of Rundoon, published by Disney-Hyperion
Books.
Dave is also a member of the world's
most significant garage band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, composed
entirely of leading authors, includes Stephen King, Amy Tan, Dave Barry,
Ridley Pearson, Roger McGuinn, Frank McCourt, Scott Turow, Matt Groening,
Roy Bount, Jr., Greg Iles, Mitch Albom and occasionally Digby's pal
Tananarive Due. Digby himself is negotiating with Ridley
Pearson for a chance to sit in on bass guitar. The Remainders play
for charity fundraisers and for the fun of it. As Amy Tan said, "I
would do this to kill the whales." Or as Dave Barry puts it, "we
play music about as well as Metalica writes novels. Actually we
believe Metalica writes novels better than we play music."
Their current tour is called, "Still Younger
Than Keith," although Barry denies knowing why. For that
matter he is also confused about why they call it a tour when they are
only doing one show.
Digby: "Dave these titles are amazing. How do you come up with such great titles like, 'Dave Barry turns 40,' and 'Dave Barry turns 50?.'"Barry: "It took years to come up with them. And then we had to hire mathematics experts to make I had my age right."
In Dave Barry's Money Secrets Dave
warns readers not to be too trusting when it comes to financial
opportunities.
Digby: "So Dave, are you telling me that some people are too trusting when it comes to finances?"Barry: "Right Horace. When a Nigerian business man wrote me a letter offering to send me 93 million dollars, all my friends told me, 'Don't do it Dave, it's a scam.' And then when he wanted me to send him $3,000 for his shipping costs, my friends all said, 'he's ripping you off Dave.'"Digby: "But you didn't listen to your friend's warnings?"Barry: "And if I had trusted my friends, and listened to their warnings, I wouldn't have sent that #3,000 to Nigeria, and as a result, I wouldn't have received the 93 million dollars about a week later. Which just goes to show, you don't want to be too trusting when it comes to your money."
Learn
more about Dave Barry and the Rock Bottom Remainders at: http://www.davebarry.com.
Listen to the Rock Bottom
Remainders on You Tube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9VrgQDslI&mode=related&search=