ISBN: 0061987077 9780061987076

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts

Page count: 259

<b>“Though Silverman’s book provides her customary shock-and-awe humor . . . it is [her] honesty and vulnerability that are most surprising.” —Los Angeles Times</b><br><br>From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne and star of the powerful 2015 film <i>I Smile Back</i> comes a memoir—her first book—that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. <br><br>In this collection of humorous essays, Sarah Silverman tells tales of growing up Jewish in New Hampshire, losing her virginity, learning to curse at three 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.”<br><br>If you like Sarah’s television show <i>The Sarah Silverman Program</i>, or memoirs such as Chelsea Handler’s <i>Are You There Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea</i> and Artie Lange’s <i>Too Fat to Fish</i>, you’ll love <i>The Bedwetter</i>.<br><br><b>“Deftly mixes the spit-take funny stuff with an unsentimental but enlightened look back at her not-so-charmed life and career.” —</b><b><i>Vanity Fair</i></b><br><br><b>“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</b><br><br><b>“An engrossing (and grossing) journey from childhood to childish adulthood.” —</b><b><i>Heeb Magazine</i></b>