by Amy Sedaris
2006 Grand Central Publishing
Amy Sedaris is one of the most underemployed comedians of our age, and has done little worth her talent since Strangers With Candy ended in 2000. Wigfield was funny, one of the few funny books I've read. She should write more humor. Instead, she wrote a hospitality book. Not a book making fun of old Good Housekeeping books from the 50s and 60s, not a humorous hospitality book, an actual, mostly serious book about how to hold parties. There's just a little bit of quirk thrown in to make it unsettling to anyone who actually wants to read about holding one of these parties, but not enough humor to bother going through the condescending hosting advice. There are pages on why it's rude to bring uninvited guests with you and why it's important to have enough ice - I keep thinking it's a set up for a joke, but nope, it's 99% party planning and 1% inappropriate drop-ins about abortion and douching. Now I'm afraid that Stephen Colbert was carrying her all these years.
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