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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Antisemitism
Moderate: Ableism, Excrement
Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment
It's been a long time since this book was published and it shows. There's an incredible amount of slurs racial and otherwise and most of the humor is just shock humor.
You can probably figure out how much driving I'm doing by the pace of my comedian-audiobooks. I generally liked this one. I think Sarah Silverman is funny even though I'm not really into the shock humor aspect of it. I think she's interesting even when she makes weird-to-me choices. One of her earliest memories is her dad deciding to teach to her swear (on purpose, not just letting swears slip accidentally) then when her grandma offers her some brownies, tiny Sarah says "shove it up your ass." This made me laugh a lot when listening to it, even though it's pretty dumb!
She also has a pretty thoughtful take on racial humor. There are a lot of conservatives who are still racist but recognize they can't be overtly racist anymore. Republicans generally are worried about "immigration" but wouldn't get caught saying "spics." So when Sarah is writing a joke with a shock punchline, she might say "spics." Actual racists are careful to use dogwhistles, and comedians are making meta jokes with slurs.
I think this book would be interesting to people who like standup comedy as a genre. I would recommend that you're familiar with her humor before diving in blindly. There are a lot of dick jokes, and a lot of gross jokes. Although that's not everything - she writes her own foreword in the third person, it's such a weird, funny way to start.
She also has a pretty thoughtful take on racial humor. There are a lot of conservatives who are still racist but recognize they can't be overtly racist anymore. Republicans generally are worried about "immigration" but wouldn't get caught saying "spics." So when Sarah is writing a joke with a shock punchline, she might say "spics." Actual racists are careful to use dogwhistles, and comedians are making meta jokes with slurs.
I think this book would be interesting to people who like standup comedy as a genre. I would recommend that you're familiar with her humor before diving in blindly. There are a lot of dick jokes, and a lot of gross jokes. Although that's not everything - she writes her own foreword in the third person, it's such a weird, funny way to start.
Apart from her bed wetting escapades , the rest is either boring or not funny . So here I am cutting my losses and moving on
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Your enjoyment of this memoir by Sarah Silverman might depend on your enjoyment of her brand of comedy. I've always found her kind of hit and miss, so, found this book by her kind of, uhm, hit and miss. I listened to Silverman read the audio edition and that likely added to my enjoyment. Had I just read it, some of the timing and extra oomph of having Silverman herself do impressions of her wacky dad or grandmother would have been completely missed. Her brief mentions of her dad were some of my favorite parts of THE BEDWETTER--especially his long, rambling, bizarre voice mails. Entirely too much talk of certain bodily functions, but that's part of Silverman's shtick isn't it? It's not really fair of me to say there's too much talk of f*rts considering I'm listening to a memoir from Silverman. Oh, well, I enjoyed this enough to say it passed three days of my Los Angeles commute and delivered an appropriate amount of chuckles and laughs to make it worth my time. What else would I do anyway, since I was just sitting in my car either going 80mph or not moving at all.
Wanted to enjoy it more. Some fun bits but kind of unorganized. Also, I think she's gotten considerably more wise in the 11 years since this was written.
I listened to the audio book. I highly recommend enjoying Silverman's freshman effort this way!
It was surprisingly well organized, but focused too much on jokes and on the SSP. I wish she had talked more about starting out as a comic and, obviously, about dating Jimmy Kimmel. I saw her live this past summer and everything seemed a little stale and desperate. Her book was no different.
When I started the audiobook (great narration by Sarah herself), I didn't know what year it had been written in. When she started cheerfully telling anecdotes about getting naked in public with Louis CK, I was like "Oh. Oh this was definitely written before 2017."
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced