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A review by caitlyn888
This Will Be Funny Later by Jenny Pentland, Jenny Pentland
4.0
The sitcom "Roseanne" is one of my favorite TV shows of all time - I own the complete series and rewatch the episodes repeatedly as a comfort tool. So when I saw that Roseanne Barr's daughter had written a memoir about her life during those years, I knew I had to pick it up. I came to terms long ago with the fact that Roseanne Conner the character is very different from Roseanne Barr the person, so that helped prepare me a bit for what I was about to learn.
But only a bit. Holy crap. I had previously heard that Roseanne's real daughters wanted to use a coffin as a bed, but their actual lives were way too harsh for TV. Jenny Pentland has been through some shit. All the reform schools, Weight Watchers camps, and wilderness survival camps, combined with her mother's problematic marriage and paparazzi-frenzied life, and it's astonishing to see that she got to adulthood in one piece. (Though she talks at the end of the book about her recent journey into therapy for PTSD, which thank god, cuz that was a lot of trauma to endure at such a young age.)
Jenny maintains a balance between defending and critiquing her mom's actions over the years, while she also remains pretty grounded as the daughter of a celebrity. She also gives "Roseanne" fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of the show, and it was interesting to hear her talk about real life things that happened in her family that then ended up being plot lines in the show.
But only a bit. Holy crap. I had previously heard that Roseanne's real daughters wanted to use a coffin as a bed, but their actual lives were way too harsh for TV. Jenny Pentland has been through some shit. All the reform schools, Weight Watchers camps, and wilderness survival camps, combined with her mother's problematic marriage and paparazzi-frenzied life, and it's astonishing to see that she got to adulthood in one piece. (Though she talks at the end of the book about her recent journey into therapy for PTSD, which thank god, cuz that was a lot of trauma to endure at such a young age.)
Jenny maintains a balance between defending and critiquing her mom's actions over the years, while she also remains pretty grounded as the daughter of a celebrity. She also gives "Roseanne" fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of the show, and it was interesting to hear her talk about real life things that happened in her family that then ended up being plot lines in the show.