Humorous Book Tells History In Facebook Status Updates

Two comedians imagined how Facebook chatter between historical greats, from Cleopatra to the Pope, would sound and wrote it all down for us in the form of the upcoming slapstick book Let There Be Facebook.

What if history were written in status updates?

Well, in the fictional world drawn for us by comedians Travis Harmon and Jonathan Shockley in their upcoming fictional humor book Let There Be Facebook: Status Updates From God, Gaga, And Everyone In Between, famous faces from the past used Facebook, and their news feeds have been excavated.

The 140-some pages are filled with laugh-out-loud dialogues between some of the biggest wigs from the history books, complete with hysterical mock headshots of the historical characters.

For instance, one such dialogue, entitled “Beethoven,” reads as follows:

Archduke Rudolph: YOUR FIFTH SYMPHONY IS AMAZING!

Beethoven: Caps lock is on, friend.

Prince Kinsky: BEETHOVEN! BEETHOVEN! HEY! HEEEEEEY!

Beethoven: Yes! What?

Prince Kinsky: Love the Ninth!

Beethoven: No need for all caps, bud.

Prince Lobkowitz: HEY, MAN! DUN-DUN-DUN DUHHHHHH! YEAH!

Beethoven: Why are you shouting at me?

Prince Lobkowitz: AREN’T YOU DEAF?

Beethoven: I’M DEAF BUT I CAN READ

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