Nothing's Sacred is the autobiography

Autobiography

An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...

 of comedian Lewis Black

Lewis Black

Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. He is known for his comedy style, which often includes simulating a mental breakdown, or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena...

. It was published in 2005, and republished in 2006 (paperback edition). The 2006 publication contains new material and one of the plays he wrote during his "career" as a playwright

Playwright

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. The book has also been released in unabridged audio CD format, narrated by Black himself. The book is narrated in the same fashion as Black's stand-up

Stand-up comedy

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 routines, with explicit language, sarcasm

Sarcasm

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, and constant fits of rage

Rage (emotion)

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.

The book primarily accounts Lewis' admiration for his seemingly eccentric family, his disregard for authority, his education, past habitual drug use, his perspectives on current issues, and other real-life events such as his hitchhiking

Hitchhiking

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 trip in Europe

Europe

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 or his late pet dog, John-John. The book's layout is in semi-chronological order. The book has no table of contents

Table of contents

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 and a lengthy page of acknowledgments.

Excerpts from the book

• "So many leaves, so little time. I will buy a leaf blower."
• "If there is a hell, it is modeled after Jr. High."
• "Just the memory of it makes me want to go to the bathroom."
• "I was lucky to have an animal like that as my owner."
• "Somehow, psychopaths always get service."
• "We are passing on a legacy of shit."
• "One doesn't shit in a bidet
  Bidet
  A bidet is a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the genitalia, inner buttocks, and anus. It was originally a French word.-History:...
  
  , because one has to clean it up."
• "If The Post Office
  United States Postal Service
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   didn't already exist, Kafka
  Franz Kafka
  Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
  
  would've invented it."