As any viewer of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart knows, Lewis Black is one angry guy. Among other things, Black is angry about:

The Atkins fad: “It only means we’ve been eating the wrong thing… since the dawn of civilization!”

Politicians: “In my lifetime, we’ve gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We’ve gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in 12 years, we’ll be voting for plants.”

School budget cuts: “If you’re gonna cut out afterschool programs, the least you could do is give each one of those kids a knife! [...[ And they could whittle! They could whittle! And sell their crafts at the fair!”

His new book, Nothing’s Sacred, takes a look at everything from pioneering comedians (Paul Krassner, Lenny Bruce), the failure of ‘60s radical politics and the decline of the Democratic Party to a childhood growing up in the D.C. suburbs and college years in Yale’s theater program. The book’s made the top 20 of the New York Times best-seller list and the audiobook version makes some of the best subway listening we’ve heard in a long time.

Black appears in a rare interview at the Y on Monday, June 27.