Not funny essays on life, comedy, culture, et cetera
"Growing up, Jena Friedman didn't care about being likable. And she never wanted to be a comedian, either. A child of the 90s, she wouldn't discover her knack for the funny business until research for her college thesis led her to take an improv class in Chicago. That anthropology pap...
| Main Author: | Friedman, Jena, 1983- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
One Signal Publishers, Atria,
2023.
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| Edition: | First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Not funny
- 1,500 words
- An American girl's story
- Dead baby jokes, or, How to talk to a fetus lawyer
- Too soon
- Cutting my teeth
- Sex pays
- Bad art
- Girl having sex, or, What we talk about when we talk about likability
- Brief interviews with hilarious men
- Canceled comedians say the darndest things
- Stand down
- One of the good ones
- Oh, the people you'll meet!
- The night before COVID
- On making it.