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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
"Make it a treat!" I loved this book, probably because she is funny, and people who make me laugh are my best friends.
I've read books by a few funny people but this is one of the best. What you see is what you get, and what you get is a Jew telling you lots of stories about pee and sex. A special treat is that she transcribes voicemails her father leaves her. I hope to god those are actual voicemails left for her by her father. Look just listen to the audiobook (or read it) and when you get to that part you'll know what I'm talking about. It's great.
I listened to this on my iPod and it was probably more fun to hear Sarah Silverman read the book than it may have been if I had just read it.
Obviously not a literary masterpiece, but I'm a big Sarah Silverman fan and this was totally funny. She is so irreverent.
sarah silverman is both funny and vulnerable in this memoir. i think i will enjoy her stand-up more now, with this sometimes self-deprecating, other times self-critical contextualization. i read an article the other day about comedians and it mentioned sarah silverman as an example of someone who has shown growth and change in her act, no longer performing some of the jokes she used to do that she now realizes were in poor taste. i think that's a fair assessment and the self-awareness of this book is in line with that observation as well. i do wonder, if she were to write another memoir in ten or so years, whether she would pepper it so liberally with the r-word, as that was one of the slurs she used but did not examine, though elsewhere she spent a chapter on the use of racial slurs in stand-up.
anyway overall i did very much enjoy this book. best lady comedian memoir i have read since tina fey's bossypants.
anyway overall i did very much enjoy this book. best lady comedian memoir i have read since tina fey's bossypants.
In fairness, a 14 year old book by a comedian was never going to age well. It also felt like the author was struggling to meet a page count and trying to cover it up with jokes about not wanting to write the book. The first half was fun, the second half she clearly hit a wall.
A bit disjointed; but then, Silverman often flits from topic to topic so perhaps I should have been expecting that.
Way funnier than I thought it'd be! I laughed the entire time...and if you like her I'd recommend Chelsea Handler's books.
I liked listening to this on audio. Entertaining if you like her comedy