CATS v. CONNIFF: A chronicle of the historic lawsuit brought against Frank Conniff by his cats, Millie & Barney.

by Frank Conniff, Len Peralta (Illustrator)

The Defendant: Frank Conniff.

Comedian, writer, gout sufferer, and prolific tweeter, who understood that his incendiary social media posts might one day lead to calls for his head, but never suspected that the calls would be coming from inside his house.

The Plaintiffs: Millie & Barney.

Indoor cats. Eaters, sleepers, poopers, bladder emptiers. Frequent subjects of Conniff’s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram timelines, until they finally decided that enough was enough and fought back against what they perceived as rank exploitation by the guy they had always assumed was working for them.

The result was a bombshell Defamation of Character law suit, the repercussions of which were still being felt minutes after the trial ended.

Now every sensational detail of the legal cage match that shocked the world can now be told. This volume contains the whole scandalous story of a precedent-setting judicial conflict that makes the O.J. Simpson trial look like a mere double murder.

Genres: Humor

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2017

About the author

Frank Conniff is a comedy writer and performer who began his TV career writing for the Peabody Award winning Comedy Central series Mystery Science Theater 3000, where he also played TV's Frank, the bumbling yet lovable mad scientist sidekick. He then went on to be a writer, producer and actor on the ABC TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch and he was a writer and producer on The Drew Carey Show on ABC, The New Tom Green Show on MTV, and the satirical series O2BE on the Oxygen Network, where he was also a cast member. He was head writer of the animated Nickelodeon series Invader Zim, and also was a writer and producer for the Air America Radio network, where he provided material for on-air personalities Rachel Maddow, Marc Maron, Lizz Winstead, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and Randi Rhodes. He was a writer and performer on Viewpoint with John Fugelsang on Current TV, and on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on the FXX network, and he also writes and performs on The Jimmy Dore Show and appeared regularly on Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang on the SiriusXM Insight channel. He is the writer and star of a live stage show, Cartoon Dump, and he writes, produces and directs original musical comedy radio plays for his podcast, Podhouse 90. He is currently touring the country with Trace Beaulieu in a live movie-riffing show, The Mads Are Back, and podcasting regularly on Mother May I Podcast with Frank & Irene.

Reviews

[Keith Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a love/hate relationship with this book. While reading, I kept thinking that there was just no way this could possibly be funny and I kept expecting at any moment to hate it, and yet I loved it. It's incredibly funny, and oh, so wrong.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's funny, has great illustrations, and cat photos. What's not to like?

[Eliza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very funny!!! Frank is so creative and hilarious! I can hear his voice when reading. I highly recommend this book for a fun read!