Originally published 1 December 1993 | ||
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Similar Buddy Holly Is Alive and, Lunatics: A Novel, Wrack and Roll, One day closer to death, Laughin' Boy | ||
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians is a fantasy / weird fiction novella by Bradley Denton. It was first published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, in June 1988. It republished in Denton's 1994 collection The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians, and his 1998 collection One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality; a French translation was published in 1989.
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Synopsis
In the afterlife, Leonard finds himself confined to the Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians, an institution where comedians who were rude, offensive, obscene, and blasphemous are kept until they can learn to shed those elements of their personalities which would make them unfit for Heaven.
Reception
Coolidge was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Nebula Award for Best Novella, and was ranked 9th for the Locus Award for Best Novella.
Jo Walton has described Coolidge as being "terrific" and "memorable and excellent".