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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Caitlin Welsh

Sexy dinosaurs, hot tigers and handsome … boats? Welcome to Chuck Tingle’s world of weird erotica

Hand holding a phone on which a man and a photoshopped sabertooth tiger-man who is also a dentist are standing
Love is real, and so is Chuck Tingle’s book Open Wide For The Handsome Sabertooth Dentist Who Is Also A Ghost. Composite: @NVpresents

In one regular segment of John Mulaney’s Netflix talkshow Everybody’s Live, the comedian and his guests take audience calls about the topic of the week. On the dinosaur-themed week, as well as an overwhelmed small boy and a legendary paleontologist, one caller announces himself as Chuck, an author of – among many other things – dinosaur erotica. “I think my most famous and award-winning [book] would be Space Raptor Butt Invasion,” he explains politely. “It was nominated for a Hugo award.”

One of Mulaney’s guests, actor Ayo Edebiri, asks if he’d won. “I didn’t win, but then I wrote a book called Pounded By My Hugo Award Loss, because you can write erotica about just about anything,” Chuck replies.

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