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2011., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Bio F433b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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[2014], Adult, Blue Rider Press Call No: 818.6 G981i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A collection of humorous essays about aging by actress and comedian Annabelle Gurwitch"--From publisher.
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2022., 13:47:39, Random House Audio Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: “There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself,” Hannah Gadsby declared in her show Nanette, a scorching critique of the way society conducts public debates about marginalized communities. When it premiered on Netflix, it left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her singular ability to take them from rolling laughter to devastated silence. Ten Steps to Nanette continues Gadsby’s tradition of confounding expectations and norms, properly introducing us to one of the most explosive, formative voices of our time. Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in an isolated town in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. She perceived her childhood as safe and “normal,” but as she gained an awareness of her burgeoning queerness, the outside world began to undermine the “vulnerably thin veneer” of her existence. After moving to mainland Australia and receiving a degree in art history, Gadsby found herself adrift, working itinerant jobs and enduring years of isolation punctuated by homophobic and sexual violence. At age twenty-seven, without a home or the ability to imagine her own future, she was urged by a friend to enter a stand-up competition. She won, and so began her career in comedy. Gadsby became well known for her self-deprecating, autobiographical humor that made her the butt of her own jokes. But in 2015, as Australia debated the legality of same-sex marriage, Gadsby started to question this mode of storytelling, beginning work on a show that would become “the most-talked-about, written-about, shared-about comedy act in years” (The New York Times). Harrowing and hilarious, Ten Steps to Nanette traces Gadsby’s growth as a queer person, to her ever-evolving relationship with comedy, and her struggle with late-in-life diagnoses of autism and ADHD, finally arriving at the backbone of Nanette: the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.
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[2014]., Adult, Harper Avenue Call No: Bio 743y Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Amy Poehler is a writer, actress, producer and director. A collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haikus,... [this book] offers Amy's thoughts on everything from her 'too safe' childhood outside of Boston to her early days in New York, her ideas about Hollywood and 'the biz,' the demon that looks back at all of us in the mirror, and her joy at being told she has 'a face for wigs.' [This book] is chock-full of words, and wisdom, to live by.".
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2016., General, Grand Central Publishing Call No: Bio K64y Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. She offers-through a collection of real-life stories, a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her "transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man," attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference between being called "ma'am" and "miss" ("Miss sounds like you weigh ninety-nine pounds"). Jessi Klein is head writer and an executive producer of Comedy Central's TV series Inside Amy Schumer. Her story "Tired, From New York" can be heard on The Moth radio hour at themoth.org/storytellers/jessi-klein. She can also be seen in her own half-hour Comedy Central stand-up special.
