ISBN: 1538706512 9781538706510

Category: Humor / Form / Essays

Page count: 240

<b>WINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR HUMOR</b><br><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br> A BARNES AND NOBLE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR </b><br><b>A <i>TOWN & COUNTRY </i>BEST CELEBRITY MEMOIR OF 2023<br> A <i>VULTURE </i>BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2023</b><br><br> Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you.<br><br> Now, I’m gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-five and she’s smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whether I’m talking about my childhood growing up in the South, my early stand-up days driving from gig to gig through the darkest parts of our country and praying I wouldn’t get murdered, what Chris Rock told Lorne Michaels, that time I wanted to shoot Whoopi Goldberg on SNL, and yeah, I’ll tell you all about <i>Ghostbusters</i> and the nudes and<i> Supermarket Sweep</i> and <i>The Daily Show</i> . . . I’m sharing it all in these pages. It’s not easy being a woman in comedy, especially when you’re a tall-*ss Black woman with a trumpet voice. I have to fight so that no one takes me for granted, and no one takes advantage. These are the stories that explain why. (Cue the<i> Law & Order</i> theme.)<br>