![]() Shafer has had a roller coaster ride of a career and has achieved near-greatness in the past, with 12 appearances on "The Johnny Carson Show" and one appearance on Letterman. Schafer is a man in his early 50's who discovered his comic talents during an incarceration in Oklahoma's maximum security state prison-McAlester, otherwise known as "The Big Mac." The book is about one week in the life of road comic Billy Ray Schafer. Tallent describes it as a "cautionary tale" that he wrote partially as a reminder to himself that he didn't want to end up like the comedian in "Running the Light." Tallent's book is being lauded by his peers as a true-to-life depiction of the ups and downs of life on the road as a working comic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I do not know much about Sam Tallent as a comedian, but as a writer he has written a damned good first novel that I first learned about on the Doug Stanhope subreddit. 'Running the Light," far as I know, is the first novel ever written by a working comedian about the grim realities of life on the road as a working comedian. ![]()
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