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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
funny
slow-paced
Despite my love for the genre, I did not enjoy this book. Turns out I am not a fan of Sarah Silverman's humor and none of the stories really appealed to me. Bummer.
I listened to this audio memoir written and read by Sarah Silverman twice-once by myself and then again with my husband. I happily listened to (and laughed through) it both times. I quite enjoy Silverman’s now defunct and oddly hilarious “The Sarah Silverman Program” so I was excited to see this audiobook in my library’s e-download catalogue. I found this memoir to be surprisingly deep and emotional in parts, while always maintaining Silverman’s trademark humor. Silverman’s memoirs are a view into her inner psyche and helped me understand where her humor comes from better. She knows her best source for material is herself and nothing (however humiliating) is off limits for a laugh in her book. I read a lot of humorous memoirs and found this one to be one of the most believable…I have laughed until exhaustion reading Augusten Burroughs etc. but in the back of my head I feel they use real life as a template to embellish on in their essay collections. Pretty much everything in [b:The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee|7897478|The Bedwetter Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee |Sarah Silverman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1269295414s/7897478.jpg|11141306] seems as if it is true to life…no weirdly specific conversations from 15 years ago or tidily humorous stories with a punch line populate her pages; it is hilarious but messily so. I loved learning about what went on behind the scenes at “The Sarah Silverman Program” and it’s great to watch episodes she talks about in the book and feel “in the know” about this joke or that actor’s off set proclivities.
On my second listen, I did catch the defensive undercurrents for several chapters towards the end that seemed a bit overdone to me. I consider myself a Sarah Silverman fan and it’s safe to assume she’s writing for a rather narrow self-selected audience comprised of SS fans so I don’t know why she spent so much time dissecting the Paris Hilton and Britney Spears “scandals” for a readership that doesn’t really care. Personally, if I had heard of either of those stories, they were long forgotten by the time I listened to the book 3 or 4 years after the fact.
In the end, I enjoy Sarah Silverman more as a performer and writer after listening to her book. Her big heart shines through all her doody jokes and feigned intolerance in this sincerely written memoir.
Note to self: I just realized I need to pick up a copy of this next time I’m in a bookstore and thumb through in case there are any pictures in it!
On my second listen, I did catch the defensive undercurrents for several chapters towards the end that seemed a bit overdone to me. I consider myself a Sarah Silverman fan and it’s safe to assume she’s writing for a rather narrow self-selected audience comprised of SS fans so I don’t know why she spent so much time dissecting the Paris Hilton and Britney Spears “scandals” for a readership that doesn’t really care. Personally, if I had heard of either of those stories, they were long forgotten by the time I listened to the book 3 or 4 years after the fact.
In the end, I enjoy Sarah Silverman more as a performer and writer after listening to her book. Her big heart shines through all her doody jokes and feigned intolerance in this sincerely written memoir.
Note to self: I just realized I need to pick up a copy of this next time I’m in a bookstore and thumb through in case there are any pictures in it!
I love Sarah Silverman. This book is hilarious and interesting and everything you'd expect from Sarah. I pretty much read it within 24 hours. Great book. Great Jewess.
Sarah Silverman did what Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling could not with their books: make me laugh, a lot. I loved this book...and I dno't even like Silverman's comedy usually!
Love it. Highly recommend to anyone that loves Sarah Silverman's comedy.
From peeing in her bed into her teens, to pissing off a coalition of Asian-Americans as an adult, Sarah Silverman has been making a mess forever. And she’s the first to admit it. This quality makes her relatable. She’s a lot of things, but “hoity-toity” is not one of them.
Her life is the perfect mix of Your Childhood (summer camps, crazy parents) and Distinctly Her (getting fired from SNL, getting into a semantic argument about “pee” versus “pee-pee” for the subtitle title of her book).
If you liked the autobiography/storytelling books by fellow lady comedians Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, and Mindy Kaling, you might want to scoop this up.
Her life is the perfect mix of Your Childhood (summer camps, crazy parents) and Distinctly Her (getting fired from SNL, getting into a semantic argument about “pee” versus “pee-pee” for the subtitle title of her book).
If you liked the autobiography/storytelling books by fellow lady comedians Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, and Mindy Kaling, you might want to scoop this up.
From Tina Fey's Bossypants right on to Sarah Silverman's The Bedwetter. Pretty hilarious. My favorite part was when Sarah compared her father's nipples and chest hair to Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night, complete with photograph to illustrate the point. :)
Really funny! I knew who Silverman was but hadn't really followed her comedy. I knew she was supposed to be gross and shocking. While the book had its share of juvenile humor, she manages to make you laugh with it and endears herself to you in the process. Also endearing is the story of her not-perfect-but-pretty-damn-good home life growing up. Would definitely recommend. I am now officially a fan.
If you liked Sarah Silverman before you read this, you're going to like her even more when you're done. The fart jokes, the sweet but kind of sad stories, the horrifically inappropriate stories and racism…all of it's "our Sarah." I love her, so I'm biased.
If you were on the fence or not a fan, this book will probably just entrench you more in your views and you won't like it. If you did NOT like The Great Schlep, I'm F8cking Matt Damon, The Sarah Silverman Program, etc. then you won't like this.
If you were on the fence or not a fan, this book will probably just entrench you more in your views and you won't like it. If you did NOT like The Great Schlep, I'm F8cking Matt Damon, The Sarah Silverman Program, etc. then you won't like this.