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We could use a nice lighthearted story every so often.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-olivers-gay-bunny-book-outsells-the-pences?ref=home
Literally overnight, the biggest star in the literary world has become a gay bunny named Marlon Bundo.
On Sunday night John Oliver announced on HBO’s Last Week Tonight that A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a children’s book about a gay bunny, named after a pet rabbit owned by the family of Vice President Mike Pence, would be available immediately. That meant it beat a rival children’s book, Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President, written by Pence’s daughter, Charlotte, and illustrated by his wife, Karen, by mere hours to the digital shelves.
As of Monday afternoon, Last Week Tonight’s book—which was written by Jill Twiss and illustrated by E.G. Keller, an artist from Pence’s home state of Indiana—was the No. 1 seller on Amazon, with the Pences’ book lagging noticeably behind at No. 6. With over 1,200 user reviews by that time, the Last Week Tonight book earned a rare five-star rating. The Pences’ effort had less than 50 reviews, and a woeful one-and-a-half-star rating.
The battle of the books began after the surprise release of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Sunday night, orchestrated in response to the Pence book tour’s stop at Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group that the Human Rights Campaign calls “one of the most well-funded anti-LGBTQ organizations in America.”
Yes, the vice president’s history of promoting anti-LGBTQ policies infiltrates even his daughter’s seemingly innocuous children’s book about their pet rabbit.
Oliver cheekily pointed out the differences between Marlon Bundo as portrayed in the respective books. For one, his Marlon wears a jaunty bowtie. “Also, our story is about Marlon Bundo falling in love with another boy rabbit, because our Marlon Bundo is gay—just like the real Marlon Bundo.”
To add nobility to his trolling of Pence’s politicized homophobia, Oliver also said that all proceeds from the book will go to The Trevor Project and AIDS United. An audiobook version features the voices of Jim Parsons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and RuPaul.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-olivers-gay-bunny-book-outsells-the-pences?ref=home
Literally overnight, the biggest star in the literary world has become a gay bunny named Marlon Bundo.
On Sunday night John Oliver announced on HBO’s Last Week Tonight that A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a children’s book about a gay bunny, named after a pet rabbit owned by the family of Vice President Mike Pence, would be available immediately. That meant it beat a rival children’s book, Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President, written by Pence’s daughter, Charlotte, and illustrated by his wife, Karen, by mere hours to the digital shelves.
As of Monday afternoon, Last Week Tonight’s book—which was written by Jill Twiss and illustrated by E.G. Keller, an artist from Pence’s home state of Indiana—was the No. 1 seller on Amazon, with the Pences’ book lagging noticeably behind at No. 6. With over 1,200 user reviews by that time, the Last Week Tonight book earned a rare five-star rating. The Pences’ effort had less than 50 reviews, and a woeful one-and-a-half-star rating.
The battle of the books began after the surprise release of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Sunday night, orchestrated in response to the Pence book tour’s stop at Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group that the Human Rights Campaign calls “one of the most well-funded anti-LGBTQ organizations in America.”
Yes, the vice president’s history of promoting anti-LGBTQ policies infiltrates even his daughter’s seemingly innocuous children’s book about their pet rabbit.
Oliver cheekily pointed out the differences between Marlon Bundo as portrayed in the respective books. For one, his Marlon wears a jaunty bowtie. “Also, our story is about Marlon Bundo falling in love with another boy rabbit, because our Marlon Bundo is gay—just like the real Marlon Bundo.”
To add nobility to his trolling of Pence’s politicized homophobia, Oliver also said that all proceeds from the book will go to The Trevor Project and AIDS United. An audiobook version features the voices of Jim Parsons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and RuPaul.
