Synopses & Reviews
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(a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features.
(b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman.
(c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair.
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(a) Instructing one's grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity.
(b) Stripping naked in public — eleven times in a row.
(c) Stabbing one's boss in the head with a writing implement.
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(a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes.
(b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die.
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Review
"Comedian Sarah Silverman is an acquired taste. If you like orgasms, farts, and excrement, she is delicious....[A]n absurdist's delight." Booklist
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"For any reader who enjoys Silverman's stand-up and television work, her freshman literary effort is highly entertaining, provides a fascinating introduction to the person behind the persona, and should fly off the shelves..." Library Journal
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"Readers' views of the later chapters might depend on their tolerance for fart jokes, sexual references and backstage tales (more about show biz than who's shtupping whom). Nonetheless, Silverman's book suggests that, behind the cute face and dirty mouth, there's a clever woman with a warm heart." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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"In this book, as onstage, she has the power to shock — not so easy in these times. Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor crossed lines; now that the controversy has faded, we remember their genius. And so we will with Sarah Silverman." People
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"Odd, shambling, and funny... as close to an explanation of Silverman and her comedy as we're likely to get. It seems to be saying, Obviously I'm joking, but it's also me up there." New York magazine
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"Deftly mixes the spit-take funny stuff with an unsentimental but enlightened look back at her not-so-charmed life and career." Vanity Fair
Synopsis
From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne, Sarah Silverman, comes a memoir that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. If you like Sarah's television show "The Sarah Silverman Program", or memoirs such as Chelsea Handler's
Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea and Artie Lange's
Too Fat to Fish, you'll love
The Bedwetter.
With her signature taboo-breaking humor, Silverman writes on everything from her epic struggle with hairy arms (there's not enough wax in the world) to the death of her infant brother.
Synopsis
From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne and star of the powerful 2015 film I Smile Back Sarah Silverman comes a memoir her first book that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. If you like Sarah s television show The Sarah Silverman Program, or memoirs such as Chelsea Handler s Are You There Vodka? It s Me Chelsea and Artie Lange s Too Fat to Fish, you ll love The Bedwetter.
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Synopsis
From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne Sarah Silverman comes a memoir--her first book--that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny.
In this collection of humorous essays, Sarah Silverman tells tales of growing up Jewish in New Hampshire, losing her virginity, learning to curse at 3 years old, and being a bedwetter until she was old enough to drive, and in a surprisingly poignant piece, she recounts the accidental death of her infant brother. Of course, in her loopy, taboo-breaking way, she always manages somehow to leave you laughing. But then you'd expect nothing less from a woman who sang to her boyfriend on national television that she was "F***ing Matt Damon."
If you like Sarah's television show The Sarah Silverman Program, or memoirs such as Chelsea Handler's Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea and Artie Lange's Too Fat to Fish, you'll love The Bedwetter.
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About the Author
Sarah Silverman is the co-creator and star of The Sarah Silverman Program. She won an Emmy in 2009 for her video "I'm F***ing Matt Damon," and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for her role on The Sarah Silverman Program. Silverman lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Duck, presuming he does not die prior to publication, which is moderately to extremely likely.