I’ve been a fan of Seth Rogen’s work for many years. Weird that I would look up to someone who’s my own age (well, he’s two months older than I am), but let’s face it, Seth was basically child actor when he was on Freaks and Geeks (he was 16 when filming began), and had already been doing standup comedy for several years. Yeah, he was like, a real professional standup comedian when he was 12. Sort of. “Professional.”

I learned these things (and others) reading Seth’s new book, Yearbook. I say new book, but really it’s his only one. “Only” one. He’s been writing about 10 movies and TV shows a year since 1999 so I hesitate to say only. He’s one of the more prolific writers of our time.

Yearbook is part memoir, part behind-the-scenes tour, and part just plain funny. A philosophical word in there from time to time as well, which I appreciate in Rogen’s movies too. He shares some backstories about a few of said movies’ plotlines, as in, here’s this thing that happened to me in real life and here’s how I worked it into a movie script. Love reading stuff like that. Though there’s always a little damn I wish I’d though of that first.

Short version: read this book. You’ll laugh.

Now make another movie, Seth! It’s been like 10 minutes since I’ve seen your last one and I need my fix!