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Bill Alive
Bill Alive
Writer. Thinker. Goofball.
Oct 21, 2025 3 min read

New Release! 📚 Disengaged

Sure, they’re engaged.
But that doesn’t mean she actually likes him.

Disengaged

A Short Soap Opera Parody

From acclaimed comedy writer BILL ALIVE, author of DON'T DANCE ON THE LOBSTERS, comes a short, hilarious parody of soap operas and college romance…

Giselle should never have let Kenneth spend a semester in Switzerland without her.

Especially now that they're engaged.

Not that she actually likes him or anything.

(It's complicated.)

So complicated, in fact, that Gail (who might also like Kenneth) is getting grilled by her family lawyer to reveal a devastating secret… all while Sherry, who's supposedly Giselle's friend, struggles to seem supportive while hiding a secret of her own…

When did college life become such a soap opera?

If you love goofy parody sketch comedy, and that special, zany zest for the absurd that seems to flourish among stressed-out college students, then you won't want to miss this short, hilarious send-up of both mainstream soap operas and a very particular flavor of young adult obsessions. Enjoy!

đź›’ BUY IT NOW: Disengaged: A Short Soap Opera Parody

Click that link to purchase this e-book on any major online bookstore.

📚 For the paperback edition, use that link to go to Amazon.

Disengaged also appears in this collection:

Don't Dance on the Lobsters

A Modest Collection of Spoof TV Skits, Podcast Parody, and Further Minor Literary Crimes

From acclaimed comedy writer and proficient sitter BILL ALIVE (author of RICH, SKINNY, AND SUPER SPIRITUAL!) comes a ground-breaking new humor collection that will not actually break anything, don't worry! It's just an expression!

You do love parody, right?

Parody is that special flavor of comedy where, beneath all the surface humor, there's always that extra layer of riffing on the target genre.

And you've just found an entire book full.

In Don't Dance on the Lobsters, you'll sample a veritable buffet of short, delectable parody pieces across many different genres and formats, including:

  • Profound, thoughtfully illustrated poems about the human condition, with titles like, “The WISDOM of Perspiration!”
  • Fake interviews with notables such as the inventor of a new solar-powered sports watch with a real "killer feature": it shrieks like a kettle when the battery gets low, forcing you to at least go outside once in awhile. (Or does it?)
  • A (short) soap opera set in a small Christian college.
  • An even shorter preview for a horror movie set in a hotel where the killer leaves signs around like, "You Can't Use the Emergency Exits, That Would Be Cheating".
  • A "live transcription" blog starring two marketers who literally just record themselves trying to talk shop while they run random errands… buying lobsters, for instance…

… and much, much more.

If you love short, zany humor pieces, irreverent yet affectionate spoofs, and the kind of sketch comedy you might see on Saturday Night Live! or (once upon a time) The Muppet Show, you won't want to miss Don't Dance on the Lobsters!

đź›’ PREORDER NOW: Don't Dance on the Lobsters: A Modest Collection of Spoof TV Skits, Podcast Parody, and Further Minor Literary Crimes

Click that link to preorder this e-book on any major online bookstore.

📚 For the paperback edition, use that link to go to Amazon.

Thank you for checking out this new release! Happy reading!

[Bill Alive]

Bill Alive