Your group will have a great time with Jeff Nichols
1) Book Simon and Schuster's critically acclaimed learning disabled author Jeff NIchols for awareness week at your college or high school; see exclusive clips of the unreleased movie about LD, and hear Jeff read from Trainwreck and perform comedy. (scroll to bottom of page for video's, teaser of movie and more).
2) Let Jeff Raise $$$ for your nonprofit.
Jeff has also produced comedy shows to raise money for various causes over the years (ask for list) with top acts like: Dan Naturman, Edie Brill, and Jim Gaffigan. So let Jeff raise money for your school! (Fact: If you are doing a comedy event at a comedy club, you are spending way too much money. Jeff Bring's great comedians that speak about education, learning dualities and the trials and tribulation of LD perenthood!
Jeff has performed at over 100 colleges as host of the game show "Laugh You Lose!" And has done Q and A and many film festivals."
From one of the top public schools in the nation:
"A few years back I had the pleasure of watching stand-up comic Jeff Nichols perform at a large 12 step convention in NYC. I was attracted to his honest message of hope, and asked him to come to speak for me at Awareness week. He was a great success with the kids and the faculty: hysterical, informative and completely disarming. The Q and A was a blast."
- Yvette Diaz, former guidance counselor/activities board Stuyvesant High school Manhattan
Jeff has videos on YouTube. Click here for movie trailer.
"A startlingly funny look at life in the messed-up lane, 'Trainwreck: My Life As an Idoit' --
misspelling intentional -- might be dismissed as cinematic tomfoolery if it weren't based closely on events recounted in comic Jeff Nichol's memoir."
-Ken Eisner, Variety Magazine
Jeff's. Simon and Schuster Promo Video
Here is Jeff recently speaking at another top NYC HIgh school.
Click here for Jeff talking about drug abuse at Hunter College High School in NYC, March 16.
"This is a romp of a book, a rowdy ride and yes, there’s a promise of that new American condition: redemption. The writing is leavened with a dazzling comic energy and you will want to cheer Jeff Nichols when he arrives at that sweet clearing in the woods."
-FRANK McCOURT, Pulitzer Prize winner of best selling Agela's Ashes and long time teacher at Stuyvesant HIgh school
"For an unusual twist, readers may turn to Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit by Jeff Nichols. From Touchstone, this is the offbeat, funny memoir of an adult with ADD, dyslexia and other disabilities."
-Publishers weekly
"Nichols anecdotes are funny and the pacing makes for an entertaining read. He writes with a comics ease and timing."
-Additude magazine
"This book is the most entertaining and easily the funniest I have ever read in my life. Jeff is such a mess but such a great storyteller — a really talented writer. I loved every goddamn page."
- Pete Correale, comedian, XM Radio host and star of t Comedy Central special, "The Things We Do for Love" (also scene on the tonight show and Leterman.)
"The most outrageous/shocking book ever written about Learning disabilities"
-Jeff's mother
There are stories of people from all walks of life who have overcome learning disabilities to ultimately reach monumental success — as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, high–profile politicians, world–famous actors, and championship athletes. Be forewarned, this is NOT one of those stories.
Jeff talking about learning disablities and drugs and alcohol
with director of movie and acteress Getchen Mol
From Simon and Schuster:
Growing up a privileged Manhattan kid, Jeff Nichols should have had it all. Instead, a plethora of learning disabilities and conditions ranging from ADD and dyslexia to a speech impediment and a touch of Tourette’s syndrome made life anything but smooth sailing. In TRAINWRECK: My Life as an Idoit (Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster; July 7, 2009; $15.00/paperback; 1-4165-9916-9), Nichols turns the dysfunction memoir on its head for an irreverent look at how one "idoit" finally made good.
Bounced out of a string of elite private schools, Jeff eventually limps his way through college, where he drinks everything that is offered to him and tries every drug known to man (along the way earning the nickname Iron Lung , for his uncanny ability to inhale from a four-foot bong without coughing). By the skin of his teeth, Jeff graduates and lands a job on Wall Street, where he manages to last a year before being unceremoniously dismissed with the words, You are weird, incompetent, and often stink of booze.
Nearing rock bottom, Jeff finds salvation in Alcoholics Anonymous — the perfect forum for (what else?) testing material for his stand–up act and meeting girls. After a string of disastrous odd jobs (dictionary salesman, Broadway usher, NYC public school substitute teacher) and equally disastrous, well, disasters (dangling perilously from a rooftop, wrecking a 28-foot yacht off the coast of Long Island, and burning down his family’s lake house with a space heater), Jeff’s life takes a crazy turn for the better when a major indie production company (Behinds hits like: Internal Sunshine, 21 Grams, Friends,With Money, and the Savages, decides to bring his story to the screen.
Always hilarious, at times disturbing, and yet oddly inspiring – Jeff Nichols offers proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anyone’s wildest imaginings.
