It’s all about Lauren. Really, it is. But Lauren’s story is funny, revealing, dangerously self-deprecating and totally funny. These are accounts of what happens when you are, say, 36, divorced, possibly barren and still prone to (accidentally) leaving period stains on her gay roommate’s couch. This is about the nightmare of ending up being nothing like the woman you had intended on being. Not even remotely. A revelation like this can be a shock, to say nothing of pathetic. But it can also make for some funny stories. And that’s what A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s Body is all about. Lauren’s experiences are like car wrecks that you can’t stop looking at. Whether she is describing her experience as a writer at the Daily Show where she develops a wholly one-sided infatuation/relationship with Jon Stewart. Or whether she confesses to having lied about being raped when she was in college and the havoc that comes from one itty bitty moment of feeling too too sorry for herself. And then there is the confession that she stomped on the sacred agreement between couples and read her boyfriend’s diary, and how all hell broke loose.
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"Relentlessly candid introspection combined with a ferocious wit." —Los Angeles Times "Lauren Weedman is goddamn funny. For that reason alone you should buy this book. Because funny is the new beauty and so we must worship funny. Oh, and Weedman is be
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Lauren Weedman made her television debut on Comedy Central's Emmy Award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2001 as a featured correspondent. Her plays and one-woman shows have received stellar reviews, and she appears regularly on Comedy Central.
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A holiday gift for everyone on my list!,
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This review is from: A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe (Paperback)
Once I started reading this book, I carried it with me everywhere there might be a chance to get another few pages read. It went with me to the obvious places...bathroom, dentist, driving to work and to church. I stayed up late finishing the last story. I loved the humor, laugh out loud type humor. But it isn't just the comic genius of this woman, this is an extremely well-written book. I loved it. Is there more to come?
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Can you analyze "funny?",
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This review is from: A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe (Paperback)
Probably not. But Lauren Weedman definitely is. It isn't so much that she "tries to be funny," (something that she does give us some great laughs over) as that she is able to see what is funny about herself. And as readers, we in turn see what is funny about ourselves. Lauren's not-exactly-unflinching, but nevertheless courageous, exploration of her own foibles is a mirror for the human condition in our bizarre age. She is a major talent, and I know we will hear more from her. This collection of episodes she would like to forget is both a brilliant satire of our celebrity-obsessed culture, and a universal expression of the ways we continually do exactly those things we will later regret so much. Buy this book. That is one action I know you won't regret.
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This review is from: A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe (Paperback)
OK I'm biased. I've seen Lauren perform her show "Bust" in Seattle several times. This woman is incredibly gifted ... she could easily hold back and not reveal her deepest thoughts, feelings and insights but she does so without concern (seemingly) about what others might say ... I find I can't help but laugh at her performances/writings because she hits that note of familiarity ("crap I've thought the same thing"). There are moments reading a book where I think "God, it would be horrible if these characters hadn't existed" (felt that reading "Sparrow") and had a similar experience reading Lauren's book (replace "characters" with "stories") (come on ... how can you ever forget the teenage girls telling their true story of the clown statute?).
Bottom line ... Lauren is a phenomenal talent and I'm so grateful she shares her gifts with us.
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