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Cody's writing is funny to me in the same way as Chelsea Handler's books, or even the stand-up comedy of Dane Cook, in that the stories they tell aren't necessarily funny, but the way they're told, the delivery itself, makes them exceptional. Word choices, phrasing, going out of your way to make everything count and pack as much punch as possible into each sentence, casting all generic bits to the side. I just like people who put forth a lot of effort to amuse me, and squeeze whatever humor they can out of everything they write about. I especially like that she makes up her own terms, such as "clit-pink," "stunt-cunt," and "sales-gays." She makes a lot of literary and pop-culture references like these: "There was a sinewy Russian girl onstage, a trained ballerina who whirled in reckless circles as though the grand prize for effort was a Baptist's severed head," and, "I ordered a vodka Red Bull: upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss." If you don't think that's funny, then fuck you. What about this: "She was healthy. Cheap. She looked like she'd spent the day roller-skating at the beach, then accidentally pitched face-first into a vat of Bonne Belle warpaint." Or this: "Vagina going once, going twice... SOLD to the fellow in the Timberwolves cap and the Manwich-stained fleece pullover!" Here, read this and tell me if you think it's funny: "I spotted a blonde girl working the floor in an outfit so tight I could clearly see her nipples, labia, individual goose bumps, hair follicles and DNA helix." If that didn't make you at least chuckle inside your head, we will never be friends and you can suck it hard. As an added bonus, there is plenty of dirt on the seedy inner-workings of the Minneapolis world of stripclubs, but the topic itself was probably just chosen because it made easy fodder as a vehicle for Cody's wit. Anyway, she's originally from Chicago, so I was happy to see her win the screenplay Oscar, even though my niece said she was putting herself on suicide watch if "Juno" won best picture.