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Original Title:	The Road To Mars
ISBN:	0330481800 (ISBN13: 9780330481809)
Edition Language:	English

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Carlton is an android working for Alex and Lewis, two comedians from the twenty-second century who travel the outer vaudeville circuit of the solar system known ironically as the Road to Mars. Being a computer he can't understand irony, but is nevertheless attempting to write a thesis about comedy, its place in evolution, and whether it can ever be cured. He is studying the comedians of the late twentieth century (including obscure and esoteric comedy acts such as Monty Python's Flying Circus) in his search for the comedy gene.

Meanwhile, during an audition for a gig on the Princess Di (a solar cruise ship), his tow employers inadvertently become involved in a terrorist plot against Mars, the planet of showbiz.

Can Carlton prevent Alex and Lewis from losing their gigs, overcome the love thing, and finally understand the meaning of comedy in the universe?

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Title	:	The Road To Mars
Author	:	Eric Idle
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 309 pages
Published	:	September 8th 2000 by Pan Publishing (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Humor. Fiction. Comedy

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Ratings: 3.52 From 1736 Users | 118 Reviews

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I expected it to be funny, and it was. I didn't expect the action or mystery elements of the story. There were a lot of pleasant surprises to it. Some aspects of the tale work better than others, but when it is good, it is really good.

"The are two types of comedian," states Carlton in the preface to his dissertation, "both deriving from the circus., which I shall call the White Face and the Red Nose. Almost all comedians fall into one or the other of these two simple archetypes. In the circus, the White Face is the controlling clown with the deathly pale masklike face who never takes a pie; the Red Nose is the subversive clown with the yellow and red makeup who takes all the pies and the pratfalls and the buckets of water and

I do not want to give away the plot, so I will just quickly lay out two pieces of groundwork. The story is centered around two comedians (an Abbott and Costello kind of comedy team) who find themselves in the middle of terrorist plot. The comedians have a robot assistant who is an android made to look like David Bowie. All through the fruition of the terrorist plot Carleton the android is developing his ultimate theory of comedy.I decided to read this book based on its being written Monty Python

Lightweight, but very enjoyable.

Eric Idle is best known for being a member of Monty Pythons Flying Circus. The Road to Mars is weird, chaotic, hilarious. Its surely a divisive book for Monty Python fans or for science-fiction experts... I enjoyed it anyway.

The robot's name is Carlton. I had to pick it up. Actual review (9/23/10): Just...no. I was expecting Douglas Adams-style light sci-fi and humor, but Idle's tone is all over the place here. There's a robot writing a dissertation on comedy, and a bunch of sub-Catskills comedians, and Idle's own theories about comedy (which seem borrowed and not terribly insightful), and Idle's theories about women (which are kind of appalling*), but then also murders, conspiracies, and dog defenestration. And

Sure the pacing is uneven and some of the jokes border on the corny, but it is its frequent touches of intergalactic existentialism that makes The Road to Mars worth it...cover to cover: "Is there enough dark matter so that the gnawing effect of gravity will eventually pull the Universe backwards, or is there enough laughing matter for levity to escape the restraining pull of gravity and permit the Universe to go on expanding forever. Take your pick. The optimistic, ever-expanding Universe, or