Only decent jokes allowed: Beavis and Butt-head writer up for kids’ book prize

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Published time: February 15, 2013 15:25
Edited time: February 15, 2013 19:33

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One of the writers of the US animated series Beavis and Butt-head is one of the 18 authors in the running for the Waterstones children's book prize.

Geoff Rodkey, who penned jokes for the comedy show, and whose other credits include Daddy Day Care, is nominated in the 5-12-year-old category for his first children’s novel, Deadweather and Sunrise, the BBC reports.

The book’s story focuses on a thirteen-year-old boy Egbert nicknamed “Egg”.

“Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts,” the synopsis to the book reads.

He runs away and ends up on a pirate ship and that's when his adventures begin.

Rodkey’s main rivals are the author of The Wolf Princess Cathryn Constable and RJ Palacio with Wonder.

According to Waterstones’ James Daunt, quoted by the BBC, the shortlisted books are full of "great beauty, humour, intrigue, imagination and important things to say, but most crucially all are fantastically good reads".

The winner gets a £2,000 ($3,000) prize.

Rodkey penned several episodes of the Beavis and Butt-head show. The story of one of the episodes was based on a myth that a knocked down cow is unable to stand up. In Rodkey’s episode of the show the unwitting teens are trying to bust this myth.

Geoff Rodkey.(Photo from Facebook.com/geoff.rodkey)

Comments (4)

yeech (unregistered) 18.02.2013 08:43

Hey Beavis ! He said, " Ayat's hole-a"

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Ted (unregistered) 16.02.2013 10:02

“I am the Great Cornholio, I need T.P. for my bunghole”

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JohnA 15.02.2013 23:38

Ayatollah JJ (unregistered) wrote in #1
Beevis and B Head is the most intelligent thing written in the USA, it tells the
story of 2 boys always trying to get girls and they always fail because they
like a lot of Americans today, just have no class or culture or what it takes
to interest a girl with more than one brain cell.
   But as bad off as they are, they are NORMAL to all the people around them that think THEY are the NORMAL ones, everyone from their "Hippy" School Teachers to the "Principal of the School" that wears a suit but likes to get spanked by woman he hires to do it in seedy Motels.
   At first Beevis and B Head is shocking until you realize that this is the way
the USA really is, classless, way under educated with a bunch of people
walking around thinking it's the greatest country in the world and that all
of them are quite intelligent. But since they always get made to look like
fools, by Beevis and B Head, you can just see the whole "Facade" that the
USA has become, all image and no substance.
   Like I said, at first you'll be shocked but after watching you'll realize it's
a great comment on how things really are today in the USA, and how low
the level of intelligence has sunk.

Fun niest thing I have read here all week. What is even funnier is that you are an American living in America. Good stuff.

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