SNAFU with Ed Helms
Behind the SNAFU Book – plus, your chance to meet Ed on tour (or virtually)!
Fri, 25 Apr 2025
As you might have heard, the SNAFU book comes out next week (April 29, 2025)! If you want to meet Ed, either on book tour or virtually, buy your copy right now. He’ll be hosting a private Ask Me Anything for anyone who preorders and submits their proof of purchase here: www.Snafu-Book.com. Or if in-person is more your style, you can also join Ed on his book tour next week in 8 cities across the country, complete with book signings (NYC, Philadelphia, DC, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, LA). On this episode, Ed sits down with his producer Carl Nellis to talk about treasure hunting for SNAFUs, the book’s jazzy and hangable art, his favorite stories (even if he loves all his children the same…), and which SNAFU characters he’d like to play in a movie adaptation. Again, you can preorder SNAFU, buy your book tour tickets, or sign up for Ed’s virtual AMA at this link: www.snafu-book.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is SNAFU about?
It's very similar, honestly.
The book tour will feel similar to like a movie promotional tour in that I'll be doing talk shows and I'll be doing appearances and all kinds of stuff. The big difference is that I expect to be having much more in-depth conversations with interviewers on the book tour, talking more about the content of the book. Typically on a movie tour, you're just kind of staying pretty superficial about...
How fun it was to make the movie and what's in the movie. In this case, I'm excited to really kind of like play a bit of more intellectual ping pong with people and just get into some of the ideas and ramifications of these snafus and how they've resonated or what meaning they've had throughout history.
You're going to get to talk history. You're going to you're going to go around the country talking history with folks like that.
So exciting. I get to nerd out in such a fun way. And I truly can't wait.
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Chapter 2: Who is involved in creating SNAFU?
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So if people want to see you on this book tour that you're doing to support the launch of the book, where can they go? Where are you going to be?
Fabulous question. Well, I'm also doing live in-person appearances in lots and lots of cities all around. Just off the top of my head, I'm going to probably forget some, but New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Georgia, my hometown where I grew up, Chicago, South San Francisco, and Los Angeles, my current hometown where I live now. And... Ding, ding, ding, ding. You got it.
You nailed it.
That's all of them. Yeah. So I'll be having events in all those cities where people can buy tickets and come see. Go to snafu-book.com for all the details about where you can both pre-order the book and there's links to buy tickets to these events in all the different cities.
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