

The Office alum Robinson most recently recurred on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Mr. The author of a dozen other books, Mansbach is also the recipient of a California Book Award and a Sundance Screenwriting Fellowship. Mansbach wrote Netflix’s film Barry, a look into the early life of President Barack Obama, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award. The 2014 sequel, You Have to Fucking Eat, is also a New York Times bestseller. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Go The Fuck To Sleep, which has sold more than two million copies worldwide, translated into forty languages and named Time Magazine’s “Thing of the Year” in 2011. Mansbach will write the pilot and serve as executive producer alongside Robinson for the project, which is in very early development.

He is best known for his work on NBC’s The Office, Hollywood comedy blockbusters This Is the End, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Pineapple Express, and the upcoming drama Morris from America.Craig Robinson Photo by MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate, JAKE THE FAKE is sure to bring the laughs with his hilarious high jinks that will leave readers eager for the next installments in the series.Ĭomedian, musician, and actor CRAIG ROBINSON transitions his flair for humor from the screen to the page in his authorial debut. More jokester than composer, Jake will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him. Which is a real problem because Jake just faked his way into the Music and Art Academy for the gifted and talented (and Jake is pretty sure he is neither). And his art? It’s more Pictionary than Picasso. Jake can barely play an instrument, not even a kazoo.


Readers will be delighted by the school adventures pulled from Robinson’s hilarious experience attending Chicago’s first public magnet school! Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.įrom comedian and film star Craig Robinson and #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach comes the first book in a new hilarious middle-grade series, JAKE THE FAKE KEEPS IT REAL. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
