Naked Beneath My Clothes [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Rita Rudner (Author, Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 1992

Rita Rudner's comedy is carefully structured, impeccably timed and exquisitely funny. From one of the best comedians working today comes a wildly funny collection of stories about men, women, modern problems, and life before remote control.

Rita Rudner on pierced ears: "Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."

On Hair: "Nobody is really happy with what's on their heads. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly hair want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind."

On childbirth: "It's scary. One of my friends told me she was in labor for thirty six hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for thirty six hours."

On plastic surgery: "I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have facelifts until my ears meet."

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Stand-up comic Rudner observes male-female interaction and muses on such everyday activities as cooking, driving and restaurant dining in this collection of some 40 short, mostly autobiographical essays. Illustrations.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Fans of stand-up comedienne Rudner will be happy indeed to see this book hit the shelves. Its pieces are quick-fire routines. If you read them aloud, they'd amount, in time, to the usual comedy spots, minus the segue. The topics are not much different from many other humor books by women--they include the fun, foibles, and fearsome experiences of being a woman in this day and age. The difference here is that Rudner is funny. Instead of eliciting merely a nod of recognition from the reader, she manages to get an actual laugh, giggle, or snort. The illustrations don't seem to add much to the book and are, in fact, a little on the amateurish side. But this shouldn't deter the acquisitions person from selecting a tried and true humorist for the collections.
- Carol Spielman Lezak, General Learning Corp . , Northbrook, Ill.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Penguin-HighBridge; Abridged edition (January 28, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0453008046
• ISBN-13: 978-0453008044
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,729,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars some good laughs, April 14, 2000

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ltp1 "ltp1" (Manchester, NH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naked Beneath My Clothes (Audio Cassette)

The audio cassette is the way to go. Why read the book when you can listen to Rita herself? With this kind of material, the written version is an incomplete substitute for the original -- standup, spoken comedy. It's all in the delivery! (If you read the book, you need to imagine it in her voice, and if you don't know her voice you are totally not getting it.) This tape is better listening than most of the stuff on the radio all day, so as long as you can concentrate on your driving and listen at the same time, it's good car audio. Or beach audio, or wherever. You'll get a few laughs, a few zings, some nods, some quotes to pass on, you'll want to play parts of it for various people in your life. I won't impart the material here, 'cause that would spoil it, so all I can say is it's worth a listen. It didn't make tears roll down my face, but it made me smile and laugh many times.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!, October 4, 2005

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Jenn Franks "RoxyJenn" (Conyers, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naked Beneath My Clothes (Audio Cassette)

Rita Rudner is my new favorite comedian. I wish I could find some of her stand up on CD or cassette, but her reading her book in this audio recording is really funny!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It was LOL hillarious, August 25, 2008

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Shirley Whirl (Pennsylvania USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature (Paperback)

This book was the first I've read by Rita and plan to read all of hers, it was so true to life and written with a great sense of humor. It was very fast reading and I wanted more and more. I would recommend it to all women if you need some laughs.