Deemed a less problematic Charles Bukowski meets a younger Jeff Bridges by a stranger on the internet, Joshua Turek has amassed a large cult following on social media with his viral comedy videos. His unintelligible rants have garnered over 1 billion views on TikTok alone and brought him hundreds of thousands of fans who recognize him regularly at his day job. A trained actor and screenwriter, he sold a script for a dollar that Bob Saget directed as his final movie, which currently has 3.4 stars out of 10 on IMDb and only because he himself voted for it several times from different email accounts (he gave it a 9 out of 10 for effort). An outsider in Hollywood and a failed child actor, Joshua is the host of the Turek Books Podcast where comedians and other interesting people talk about the books they are obsessed with. "On the Outside Looking Up" is his first published poetry collection, a true labor of love felt in every page.