after three decades of prodigious film work some unfortunate tabloid adventures its easy to forget that woody allen began his career as one heck of a great comedy writer getting even a collection of his late 60s magazine pieces offers a look into allens bag of shtick back when it was new from the supposed memoirs of hitlers barber then in january of 45 a plot by several generals to shave hitlers moustache in his sleep failed when von stauffenberg in the darkness of hitlers bedroom shaved off one of the fhrers eyebrows instead even tho the idea of writing jokes about old adolfor addled rabbis or maatjes herringisnt nearly as fresh as it used to be getting even still delivers plenty of laughs at his best woody can achieve a level of transcendent craziness that no other writer can match if youre looking for a book to dip into at random or a gift for someone whos seen sleeper 13 times getting even is a classic with 316000 copies sold to date