Too Much Information
Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think
Published on 4. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-09-192849-0 (ISBN)
Description
Nowadays, the world is full of people trying to tell us things. So much so that we have taught our brains not to pay much attention. After all, click the mouse, tap the screen, flick the channel and it's on to the next thing. But Dave Gorman thinks it's time to have a closer look, to find out how much nonsense we tacitly accept.
Suspicious adverts, baffling newspaper headlines, fake twitter, endless cat videos, insane TV shows where the presenters ask the same questions over and over...
Can we even hear ourselves think over the rising din? Or is there just too much information?
Suspicious adverts, baffling newspaper headlines, fake twitter, endless cat videos, insane TV shows where the presenters ask the same questions over and over...
Can we even hear ourselves think over the rising din? Or is there just too much information?
Reviews / Votes
"In the study of modern miscellany Dave Gorman is the equivalent of a professor emeritus" * Independent * "Dave Gorman is funny and brilliant in equal measure" * The Times * "Gorman turns his astute, observational wit on the rampant information age in which we live" * Daily Mail *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Ebury Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
378 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-192849-0 (9780091928490)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Dave Gorman is an award-winning comedian, storyteller and writer. He has numerous TV writing credits and was part of the double BAFTA-winning team behind The Mrs Merton Show. His live shows have won many awards and he is the only performer to twice win the Jury Prize for Best One Person Show at the prestigious HBO US Comedy Arts Festival. He was the host of Genius, which ran for three series on Radio 4 and then two series on BBC2. He has appeared in numerous other TV shows, including Absolutely Fabulous, The Frank Skinner Show, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His documentary film, America Unchained, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Austin Film Festival. His 2013 TV show, Modern Life Is Goodish, made for UKTV's Dave channel, saw him dissecting the foibles of modern life in six hour-long comic performances. It quickly established itself as the channel's most successful original programme that year and a further sixteen episodes have been commissioned for broadcast in 2014 and 2015. His ambition is to one day become a team captain on Call My Bluff.
www.davegorman.com
www.davegorman.com