The various narrators of the stories in Naked Pictures of Famous People all share humorist Jon Stewart's incisive sense of humor and sharp eye and ear for detail. For the most part, he selects people and events about which there is sufficient popular knowledge (e.g., the Kennedy family's rough athleticism and Vincent van Gogh's severing an ear) for readers to identify immediately. He adds considerable detail to each story, some factual, some derived from fact, and some simply invented, interweaving it in delightful, often unexpected ways.