The Best of the Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom » (Reprint)

Bill Scheft is the author of The Ringer and The Best of the Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom. He spent eleven years as head monologue writer for David Letterman. He lives in New York City.

- "The Show" is the second most widely-read column in Sports Illustrated, after Rick Reilly, who will write one of the book's introductions. Sports Illustrated has over three million subscribers, the third highest magazine circulation in the United States, and is read by 23 million adults each week.
- The Best Of "The Show" will appeal to fans of Rick Reilly's Life of Reilly (Total/Sports Illustrated, 2000) and Bill Geist's Fore!Play (Warner, 2001), both of which were bestsellers.
- Scheft was the Emmy Award-nominated head monologue writer for David Letterman for 13 years and routinely appears on the air with him. He is a frequent guest on the talk show circuit and on sports radio programs all over the country.

Library Journal

Scheft, formerly a writer for David Letterman and a columnist at ESPN magazine, as well as a published novelist (The Ringer), began his humorous weekly column, "The Show," for Sports Illustrated in 2002. Collected chronologically in this volume are 112 of his pieces, annotated with further comments, updated information, and more jokes. A section titled "The Cuts," which should impress aficionados, contains jokes that did not make it into print the first time around. Sports enthusiasts who enjoy reading the columns in Sports Illustrated will be on familiar ground throughout, whatever sport Scheft may be remarking on. Additionally, Scheft's background as a stand-up comic and monolog writer means that many of his jokes will be considered funny by those who do not think of themselves as sports fans. Larger public libraries with humor or sports collections will want to purchase.-Katherine E. Merrill, SUNY at Geneseo Lib. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.