A mustard-stained rat is doing stand-up in a crumbling Alberta bar-because someone has to say it.
In Not Bad, Mustard Guy, Canadian comedian and cultural dirtbag Reed "Razor" Marlin serves up a biting, bleakly funny collection of essays, rants, and dispatches from the mop closet of modern life. From AI stand-up comics threatening to automate his punchlines, to rats in business suits looting the last public clinic, this is comedy with a busted mic and a beer-stained floor.
You'll find stories about:
Comedy in the age of algorithmsPublic health, privatized hellWar, weather, and weaponized nostalgiaThe rise of "Ghibli-core burnout" and espresso enemasThat one guy in Saskatoon with 17 identities and a Jeep Grand CherokeeIt's equal parts stand-up routine, op-ed, eulogy, and open letter to a society fraying at the seams. If you've ever worked retail during a snowstorm, screamed into a vending machine, or tried to explain "late-stage capitalism" to your dad using grocery receipts-this book is for you.
Sharp. Surreal. Uncomfortably funny.
Not Bad, Mustard Guy is what happens when the end of the world gets a drink ticket and five minutes on stage.