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The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee » (Unabridged)

Book cover image of The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman

Authors: Sarah Silverman, Sarah Silverman
ISBN-13: 9780061987144, ISBN-10: 006198714X
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: April 2010
Edition: Unabridged

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

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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...

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.