Al Funcoot

Al Funcoot
Affiliation
Identity	Count Olaf
Profession	Playwright
Loyalty	The Fire-Starter Side of VFD
Behind the Scenes
Appearances	Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography The Bad Beginning The Hostile Hospital
Adaptation Appearances	Netflix Adaptation: The Bad Beginning: Part Two, The Hostile Hospital: Part One, The Hostile Hospital: Part Two
Portrayed by	Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) (Netflix)

“	My faithful readers will recall that I have not enjoyed Mr. Funcoot's previous efforts.	”
	— Lemony Snicket

Al Funcoot is an anagram of and alias for Count Olaf, used as a pen name for when he writes his plays.

History

Count Olaf seems to have used Al Funcoot as an anagram for several years; in a review column for The Daily Punctilio, Lemony Snicket shows distaste for his plays, which have been performed at the Ned H. Rirger Theater.

Funcoot's plays seem to be egotistical works meant to give Olaf cause to show off; his first two plays seem to be claiming Olaf as the "most handsome man in the world," and after rewriting The World is Quiet Here into One Last Warning to Those Who Try to Stand in My Way, the opening number was changed to "Introducing a Very Handsome Man."

Funcoot's name was used again for The Marvelous Marriage, a play written as an excuse for Olaf to marry Violet Baudelaire and gain the Baudelaire fortune. The play is described as dull and foolish, of little interest to the audience.

Al Funcoot's name was discovered as an anagram of Olaf's name by Duncan Quagmire, who noted it in his commonplace book in order to inform Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire.

List of Works

• The Most Handsome Man in the World
  • "A tedious, arrogant show." - Lemony Snicket
• Why, I Believe I've Become Even More Handsome!
  • The sequel to The Most Handsome Man in the World
  • "Just another excuse for the play's one-eyebrowed star to show off." - Lemony Snicket
• One Last Warning to Those Who Try to Stand in My Way
  • A rewriting of The World is Quiet Here
  • "Comedy, indeed- [it] feels more like a dastardly plot." - Lemony Snicket
• The Marvelous Marriage
  • "It was a lousy play!" - Audience Member

Trivia

• Olaf's associates are also known to use aliases that are anagrams of 'Count Olaf' so one of them may in fact be the writer, composing the plays under the Count's specific instructions.

Appearances

Books
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books)
1. The Bad Beginning (1999):	Debut	7. The Vile Village (2001):	Absent
2. The Reptile Room (1999):	Absent	8. The Hostile Hospital (2001):	Mentioned
3. The Wide Window (2000):	Absent	9. The Carnivorous Carnival (2002):	Absent
4. The Miserable Mill (2000):	Absent	10. The Slippery Slope (2003):	Absent
5. The Austere Academy (2000):	Absent	11. The Grim Grotto (2004):	Absent
6. The Ersatz Elevator (2001):	Absent	12. The Penultimate Peril (2005):	Absent
13. The End (2006):		Absent
All the Wrong Questions
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012):	Absent	Shouldn't You Be in School? (2014):	Absent
When Did You See Her Last? (2013):	Absent	Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (2015):	Absent
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (2014):		Absent
Snicketverse
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002):		Appears
The Dismal Dinner (2004):		Absent
The Beatrice Letters (2006):		Absent
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (2014):		Absent
The Hero of the Story (2017):		Absent
Poison for Breakfast (2021):		Absent
Other Snicket Books
The Baby in the Manger (2002):		Absent
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (2007):		Absent
The Lump of Coal (2008):		Absent
The Composer Is Dead (2009):		Absent
13 Words (2010):		Absent
The Dark (2013):		Absent
Goldfish Ghost (2017):		Absent