Episode #221: Maeve Higgins
Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the age of...
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Tag: memoirs
David Spade skips straight to the audiobook for new Audible memoir
No reading required for David Spade’s new memoir, A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World. Spade...
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Jimmy O. Yang on How To American
Jimmy O. Yang has a new memoir out, How To American. It’s about how his family brought him...
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Exclusive book excerpt from Budd Friedman’s “The Improv: An Oral History of The Comedy Club That Revolutionized Stand-Up”
Budd Friedman, with help from Tripp Whitesell and interviews from dozens of the famous comedians,...
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CBS Sunday Morning profiles Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart has a new memoir out, “I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons,” and he...
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“Believe Me,” Eddie Izzard’s June 2017 stand-up tour of America will include book readings, Q&As
Eddie Izzard’s new memoir, “Believe Me,” comes out this June, and the celebrated...
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Episode #145: Jay Chandrasekhar
Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing and acting in film and...
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Hear Norm Macdonald tell Howard Stern about Weekend Update, David Letterman, Burt Reynolds and Rodney Dangerfield
Norm Macdonald went on Howard Stern on Monday morning with a long dirty joke and plenty of...
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Writing what they know: The art of the comedy book, and the booming collection of comedian memoirs
Why are there so many more books by comedians about their lives as comedians than seemingly ever...
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Tips for Storytellers and Stand-ups Who Want to Sell a Book
For the last decade I have been a publishing drone by day (Editorial Assistant to start, then...
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Doug Stanhope inks deal to write his memoir
Look. You know that I know that we all know lots of comedians have written memoirs in the past few...
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Kelly Carlin digs deep for a new memoir and a posthumous live CD or CDs from her father
For the better part of the past six years, Kelly Carlin (photographed above by Dan Dion) has been...
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