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A review by booknrrd
Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers
4.0
Stay Up with Hugo Best is about a thirty-year-old woman, June Bloom, living in NYC who had just started working as a writers' assistant on a late night television show when the show was canceled. June is an aspiring comedian who has admired Hugo Best for years, so when she runs into him in the hallway of a small comedy club/bar where she just performed to a very dismal audience, she is surprised and flattered when he invites her to his place in Connecticut for the weekend. Yes, she knows that he probably expects sex, and although she tells him she is seeing someone, she is basically okay with it and goes with him. The bulk of the book is the weekend at the house. She spends more time fending off the advances of Best's 17-year-old son than Best himself.
The book is supposed to be a terrifically funny sendup of the late night comedy world with notes of 30 Rock. I don't really watch TV, so I'm probably not the right audience. I did appreciate the dark humor of it, but mostly I was sad. It was a little too note perfect and kind of depressing to me. I listened to the audiobook, which is read by Sarah Steele. Steele was fine. I don't she added or subtracted from the story.
The book is supposed to be a terrifically funny sendup of the late night comedy world with notes of 30 Rock. I don't really watch TV, so I'm probably not the right audience. I did appreciate the dark humor of it, but mostly I was sad. It was a little too note perfect and kind of depressing to me. I listened to the audiobook, which is read by Sarah Steele. Steele was fine. I don't she added or subtracted from the story.