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Authors: Sarah Silverman
ISBN-13: 9780061856433, ISBN-10: 0061856436
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: April 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Sarah Silverman

Sarah Silverman logged many hours in comedy clubs prior to joining the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1993. Before the debut of her eponymous show, The Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central, she appeared with Jack Black in the hit movie School of Rock and starred in Jesus is Magic, a filmed version of her critically acclaimed one woman-show. She has since graced the cover of Vanity Fair and has hosted the MTV Movie Awards. Ms. Silverman lives in Los Angeles.

Book Synopsis

From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne Sarah Silverman comes a memoir her first book that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. If you like Sarah s television show The Sarah Silverman Program, or memoirs such as Chelsea Handler s Are You There Vodka? It s Me Chelsea and Artie Lange s Too Fat to Fish, you ll love The Bedwetter.

Warning from publisher to reader:

At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire to determine your likelihood of enjoying this book:

1. Which of the following do you appreciate?

(a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features.
(b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman.
(c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair.

2. Are you offended by the following behavior?

(a) Instructing one's grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity.
(b) Stripping naked in public eleven times in a row.
(c) Stabbing one's boss in the head with a writing implement.

3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is:

(a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes.
(b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die.
(c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows.

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The New York Times - Dave Itzkoff

…if there is a lesson to Ms. Silverman's often hilarious and occasionally revelatory memoir…it is more profound than that its author is funny when she uses words she's not supposed to…More than just a collection of gags and stand-up leftovers, The Bedwetter is a mostly cohesive narrative of how a rebellious comic perspective evolved and became inseparable from the person who employs it, and how anyone who could find offense in that is really the butt of the joke.

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