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DA BESS PRESS INTRODUCES:
BUSS LAUGH: STAND UP POETRY FROM HAWAI'I

BUY TODAY!

Edited by Lee A. Tonouchi
ISBN: 978-157306-316-6, PB, 5.5" x 8.5", 104 pp., $12.95

Give da GIFT of LAUGHTER dis X-mas with SERIOUS COMEDY Local Style

Serious Comedy is NOT one oxymoron. For da next next generation of Hawai'i humorists, it's simply not enough for make audiences laugh. Dey wanna encourage their audiences for tink as well.

"Da Pidgin Guerrilla" Lee A. Tonouchi's latest book from Bess Press, Buss Laugh: Stand Up Poetry from Hawai'i features da best and brightest performance poetry dat highlights jus how serious funny can be.

Traditionally, in Hawai'i, Local Comedy and Local Literature have existed in separate realms. Tonouchi's life's work has been devoted to trying for bring these two worlds together.

In da 90's he helped kick off da academic scholarship on Local comedy. In 2001 he wrote his bookof Pidgin short stories in da genre of Literary Comedy. In 2004 he put together da first chapbook for feature Hawai'i Stand Up poetry. In 2005 he designed his 3000-level Pidgin Literature course at HPU around da idea dat students would be studying Local comedy as part of their academic texts.

Buss Laugh: Stand Up Poetry from Hawai'i features works from famous Local poets (like Eric Chock,Joe Balaz, and Juliet Kono), as well as works from famous Local comedians (like Rap Reiplinger, Paul Ogata, Augie T, and Ray Bumatai ), and works from Hawai'i's newest rising stars in da world of Stand Up Poetry.

Buss Laugh going stimulate your mind and tickle your funny bone. Garanz.

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