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Do You Struggle In a WorldThat Seems Too Small for You?Well, you are not alone. There are plenty of us who deal withthe things that make big folks angry, as we try to "literally" fitinto a world that is not built for those who live in oversizedbodies.Whether it's trying to find clothes and shoes that fit, or dealingwith the crazy small airplane seats, or the looks you get on acrowded elevator, this book will help you cope. You will learnhow to fight...
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I'm Dying Up Here chronicles the collective coming of age of the standup comedians who defined American humor during the past three decades. Born early in the Baby Boom, they grew up watching The Tonight Show, went to school during Vietnam and Watergate, migrated en masse to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, and created an artistic community unlike any before or since. They were arguably the funniest people of their generation, living in a late-night...
4) Fierce, Funny, and Female: A Journey Through Middle America, the Texas Oil Field, and Standup Comedy
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Fierce, Funny, and Female is the prequel to the critically acclaimed, nationally award-winning and bestselling memoir, Never Give in to Fear. In her raw, vivid, and unabashed style, author Marti MacGibbon delivers a sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious, always engaging account of her passage through trauma, betrayal, and loss in adolescence and young adulthood to discover her inner badass self. As one of the first women to work as a laborer in...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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2023
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"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael...
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