drivewayfriedeggs 's review for:

Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter by Larry Charles

3.0

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Packed with entertaining insider showbiz stories, but ultimately left me feeling a little sour. LC owns up to lots of destructive and abusive behavior throughout this book. He tries to twist it all into some kind of personal redemption arc, but that ultimately doesn't work due to how often he is preemptively defensive of those misanthropic behaviors; there's a lot of, "I probably shouldn't have done that, BUT..." logic here. He frequently blames others for his own behaviors, and also for subpar work the quality of which was obviously his own responsibility even in the context of his one-sided recountings.

That said, given what I described, this book is an unintended look inside the mind of a very specific type of restless, chaotic creative narcissist.