Wikipedia: A farce is a comedy written for the stage or film which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations,

Wikipedia: A farce is a comedy written for the stage or film which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include sexual innuendo and word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene. I think we're in the chase scene phase now. But, seriously, yeah: The book is a farce! Quite deliberately so in many parts. The bit where he outsourced his social networking to India? The intent is that you will laugh at that. It's "unlikely, extravagant, and improbable" in a way that's meant more to entertain than to inform. Playing real life as a farce is not a polite style of humor. I've never been a big fan of practical jokes, I'm intrigued by the late Andy Kaufman but I often find him uncomfortable to watch, I can't bring myself to watch Borat and I didn't watch Punk'd. Nor would I ever want to actually see Ferriss hacking his way to a kickboxing championship by exploiting a loophole in the rules -- though perhaps fans of Borat would enjoy watching it, and I find it very funny when it's described abstractly in print.