The Book of Leon ― Philosophy of a Fool

Everyone’s favorite houseguest who never left, Leon Black (played by award-winning comedian JB Smoove on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) brings his good-bad advice for the masses in this hilarious memoir that “requires a special kind of dedicated attention, as Leon drops knowledge and theories” (Entertainment Weekly).

Aristotle. Gandhi. Lao Tzu. Dr. Ruth.

Amateurs.

For centuries people have pored over the scrolls of the ancients, read tea leaves, and looked to the stars for wisdom and advice. While some people have probably offered good advice, and others offer bad advice, Leon is here to offer his unique brand of good-bad advice.

Be forewarned: in opening this tome and Leon’s mind, you need to be prepared for straight talk. The kind of unfiltered blunt straight talk that pounds on your door, invites itself in, makes itself at home, helps itself to your food, security pass code, your expensive organic beet juice, and finally makes itself comfortable on that twin bed in your guest room. All the while you think you’re helping it—but really, it’s helping you help yourself!

Leon Black, he ain’t wrong...he just ain’t right.

Leon Black?is the modern-day Ruckus-Damus, the Bringer of Ruckus, a word artist, a spitter of Leonisms, a possessor of a BBIF, and the POHTA.

JB Smoove, who has played Leon Black on Curb Your Enthusiasm since season six, is a gifted writer, comedian, and actor, who continues to entertain audiences all over the world with his unique brand of comedic funk. He has appeared on The Chris Rock Show, starred in the cult classic movie Pootie Tang, was a cast member on Cedric the Entertainer Presents, and was a writer for Saturday Night Live (for which he won a 2007 Writers Guild award). His standup has been featured on numerous late night shows and he was the host of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. His MSG show, Four Courses with JB Smoove, is in its fourth season. On the big screen he has appeared in the films Date Night, Hall Pass, We Bought a Zoo, Barbershop 3, and others, and his voice has been featured in Ice Age 4 and The Smurfs 2.

Iris Bahr is an award-winning writer, actor, director, and producer. She has written two humorous memoirs:?Dork Whore,?about her travels through Asia, and?Machu My Picchu,?about her adventures through South America and Brown University. Having appeared on numerous TV shows, Bahr is best known for?her recurring role on?Curb Your Enthusiasm, where she plays the Orthodox Jewish Girl that gets stuck on a?ski lift with Larry David, and?her cable series?Svetlana, executive produced alongside Mark Cuban, which she also wrote and directed. Her critically acclaimed solo show “DAI (enough)” had a hit run Off-Broadway and has toured around the world. and won the prestigious Lucille Lortel Award?for Best Solo Performance, as well as two Drama Desk and UK Stage Award nominations. As a stand-up comic, Iris has performed both in the US and abroad, and was chosen as one of the New Faces at the?Montreal Just for Laughs?Comedy Festival. She performs regularly in New York City.