Book description
From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs.…
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1 author picked Sure, I'll Join Your Cult as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I tend to read more books about comedy than I do books by comedians. Bamford’s book was a welcome shift for me and provided unique insights into the mechanics of unconventional comedy. She has been revered by comedy nerds for a long time but I was only moderately familiar with her work, mostly in that she is at the forefront of a certain kind of confessional, discomforting comedy that sometimes focuses on her mental health, a topic that was, until recently, off limits in the mainstream comedy world.
Acclimating to the substance and tone comes relatively quickly. The juxtaposition of…
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