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The World's Worst Assistant
By (author): Sona Movsesian Foreword by: Conan O'Brien
Sona Movsesian ,

Foreword by :

Conan O'Brien

Imprint:

Plume

ISBN:

9780593185513

Product Form:

Hardcover
Hardcover
English

Audience:

General / adult
Jul 19, 2022
$35.00 CAD
Active

Dimensions:

8.54in x 5.77 x 0.95 in | 0.91 lb

Page Count:

272 pages

Illustrations:

B&W ILLUSTRATIONS T/O; COLOR INSERT
Plume
HUMOR / Topic / Business & Professional
From Conan O’Brien’s longtime assistant, and cohost of his podcast Conan Needs a Friend, a completely hilarious and irreverent how-to guide for becoming a terrible, yet unfireable employee, and getting away with doing the bare minimum at work.

Sona Movsesian is Conan O’Brien’s assistant of twelve years. Conan and Sona have a wickedly funny and long running alter ego bit—Sona plays the lazy incompetent, Conan the insufferable and oppressive boss. Fans can’t seem to get enough of her hilariously relaxed attitude in response to Conan’s near manic energy. But Sona didn’t wake up one day and decide to become the World’s Worst Assistant. Achieving such greatness is a gradual process – one that starts with long hours and hard work long before it descends into sneaking low-dosage edibles into your lunch and napping on your boss’s couch.



Now, Sona is writing the perfect humor book for her many fans. Part satire based on these beloved alter egos, part memoir that evidences the sincere trust and respect that Conan and Sona have built over their twelve years working together, and populated with hysterical black-and- white illustrations, graphs and more, THE WORLD’S WORST ASSISTANT is completely irresistible fun you’ll want to give to every assistant in your life. In it, Sona will reveal all her trade secrets on how she became simultaneously terrible at her job (think Friends marathons at her desk), an unfireable employee (she has all of Conan’s credit card numbers committed to memory), and most importantly, an essential contributing member of the Team Coco humor machine.

A FOREWORD BY CONAN O’BRIEN + MASSIVE SOCIAL MEDIA REACH: Not only will Conan O’Brien be writing the foreword, but Conan has pledged to put the full force of Team Coco towards promoting this book. He has 28.5M followers on Twitter alone and Sona has a sizable platform of her own, with over 100k followers on Instagram, and nearly 40k on Twitter. 



A HILARIOUS AND BELOVED PERSONALITY WRITING THE EXACT BOOK HER FANS WILL WANT: Sona has emerged as a star in her own right, a beloved member of Conan’s media empire. Their long-running gaff is the basis of numerous of Conan’s most popular videos ever, and is just the humor her fans have come to expect from her brilliant comedic mind. 



BEHIND-THE-SCENES PASS TO CONAN’S WORLD: Conan’s millions of fans and those who have watched his shows over the last few decades will adore this backstage pass to the world of Conan. 



ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT: This book will be populated with b&w illustrations, tables, charicatures, and charts, all provided by Sona’s super-talented husband. 

Over her twelve years of assisting Conan O’Brien, Sona Movsesian has become a regular feature of all things Team Coco and a fan favorite. Now, Sona cohosts Conan’s podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend and stars in a regular IGTV show hosted on @TeamCoco every Friday, “Sona Fixes Your Life.” She regularly forgets to put Conan’s appointments in his calendar.



Author Residence: Los Angeles, CA

Marketing: None

Publicity: National author tour

Pre-publication media event

National broadcast publicity

National print and online publicity

Radio satellite tour

Pitch author op-eds and essays

Pre-publication consumer outreach and giveaways

Email marketing campaign

National advertising campaign

Social media campaign

VIP Influencer campaign

Promotional book video

Consumer sweepstakes

Instagram.com/sonamov

Twitter.com/sonamov

Twitter.com/ConanOBrien

Instagram.com/teamcoco

Facebook.com/TeamCoco



Author Social Media: twitter.com/sonamov; instagram.com/sonamov

One of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of 2022 | One of Business Insider’s Best Books About Celebrities | One of NPR’s Books We Love in 2022 | One of Hudson’s Best of 2022 | One of Audible’s Best of 2022

Praise for The World’s Worst Assistant

“Movsesian endearingly pulls her…comedic weight in this narrative…. Movsesian truly shines when she discusses her Armenian heritage, her dating life, and winning a college national speech championship. Conan O’Brien fans will find much to love here.”
Library Journal (starred)

“…Movsesian’s story is not about celebrating laziness or ineptitude. It’s about how two flawed people who were meant to be together found each other: a boss accepting an employee for who she is and how she does her job, and an employee accepting her boss for everything that he is.”
The New York Times

“[An] extremely funny memoir…[Movsesian’s] observations are spunky and sweet, undercutting every scene with an incisive humor that makes you laugh out loud. Whether she’s flying by private jet or printing notecards for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Movsesian remains blisteringly honest, relatable and altogether lovable.”
NPR

“[Sona’s] narrative offers a refreshing departure from the traditional assistant horror stories of pleasing a tyrant boss…. Brimming with heart and humor, this story of failing upward is a hoot.”
Publishers Weekly

“Playfully surreal reading about the comedy of human foibles.”
Kirkus

The World’s Worst Assistant is as loose, laid-back, and friendly as one would expect and hope for from a memoir by Sona Movsesian…. Movsesian writes in a style that’s both self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, which fits because The World’s Worst Assistant is also a call to arms to millennials and Gen-Z readers as a thorough takedown of grind culture, a series of quietly bold reminders to serve your own needs in your work and to make sure you work with good, funny people, if at all possible.”
Vulture

“Charming and amusing…If you’ve ever wondered how someone as hilariously anti-work as Movsesian got her job and what her whole deal is or wanted to hear day-to-day behind-the-scenes details of O’Brien’s various late-night talk shows, this is the book for that along with lots of tips on how to be a bad assistant and how to deal with bosses, both the bad ones and the good ones.”
Vulture

“Sona Movsesian is excellent at her job — or rather, not doing it…Now, 13 years into the assistant role for [Conan] O’Brien, Movsesian has turned not doing her job into an art form. And with the release of her new book, The World’s Worst Assistant, she offers others a guide to doing as she does (well, doesn’t).
—The Cut


“During Sona Movsesian’s decade-plus as Conan O’Brien’s assistant in the Conan era, she developed a beloved shtick as a sparring partner who binge-watched Friends, did crossword puzzles on the clock, and rarely assisted anyone other than herself…Now she’s hawking the bare-minimum work ethic with her memoir, The World’s Worst Assistant. With tips on how to nap at work or abuse a corporate card, the book is a tongue-in-cheek entry to the work-life balance conversation.”
—Vanity Fair

“This fun and funny read is a heartfelt and honest tale about the unique relationship between boss and assistant.”
—Business Insider

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