Hello Junk Mail!

by Ted L. Nancy

Who is Ted L. Nancy? Is it Jerry Seinfeld as many believe? Or is Ted L. Nancy someone else? Mr. Nancy’s hilarious, notorious Letters from a Nut series documented his correspondence with celebrities and companies, who took his outlandish ideas and suggestions at face value. In Hello Junk Mail!, Nancy tackles one of the most pernicious evils of the modern the junk mailer. Now writing with the Kabobbys of Glendale, a newly arrived foreign family and their relatives, Ted and his new neighbors answer scores of junk letters with riotous results. Responding to a solicitation from a pest control company, Hamooli Kabobby requests that they eliminate his freeloading cousin, then tells the pest control company about his family problems of body odors and stinky backyards. Geela Kabobby writes the distributors of free instant breakfast samples to ask if they cure eye infections. Grandfather Bahir Kabobby writes to a mortgage "Yes, I want financial freedom and healthier toes." Laid out as copies of the actual correspondence, the letters are as authentic as they are ridiculous — and all are wildly entertaining. So who is Ted? Jerry Seinfeld or The Kabobbys of Glendale?

Genres: Humor

257 pages, Hardcover

First published September 23, 2008

About the author

Ted L. Nancy is the pseudonym used by the comedian Barry Marder, author of a number of prank letters which have been published in a series of bestselling books under the titles Letters from a Nut, More Letters from a Nut, Extra Nutty!: Even More Letters from a Nut, and the new book All New Letters from a Nut.

Reviews

[Madeleine · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's funny. Same dude as letters from a nut. But kinda... strange.

[Rochelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not quite as good as Letters from a Nut but the building tale of the Kabobbys is pretty good.

[Willie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Original and funny. Never read anything quite like this. Dude answers junk mail. Who does that. That alone is props from me.

[Kelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Humorous moments. It was very silly, but not my cup of tea.

[Jim Razinha · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m a fan of the Letters from a Nut. I like to give copies of the original to convalescing friends because it’s hilarious (and, laughter… medicine …). Yeah, it got a little tired by the last, but still had a little charm. Found out this was out there and my wife found it for me. That charm’s worn off. I don’t find Borat that funny and while I got a chuckle or two from this, it largely fell flat. Oh well.