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Not Funny audiobook
- By: Jena Friedman
- Narrator: Jena Friedman
- Category: Essays, Form, HUMOR
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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Not Funny Audiobook Summary
“[A] hilarious and much-needed book.” —Samantha Bee, Emmy Award–winning comedian, author, and host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award–nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman presents a witty and insightful collection of essays on the cultural flashpoints of today.
Growing up, Jena Friedman didn’t care about being likable. And she never wanted to be a comedian, either. A child of the 90s, she wouldn’t discover her knack for the funny business until research for her college thesis led her to take an improv class in Chicago.
That anthropology paper, written on race, class, and gender in the city’s comedy scene, was, in Jena’s own words, “just as funny as it sounds.” But it did lay the groundwork for a career that has seen her write and produce for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Late Show with David Letterman, and the Oscar nominated Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.
Friedman’s debut collection, Not Funny, takes on the third rails of modern life in Jena’s bold and subversive style, with essays that explore cancel culture, sexism, work, celebrity worship, and…dead baby jokes.
In a moment where women’s rights are being rolled back, fascism is on the rise, and so many of us could use a breather as we struggle to get by, Jena applies her unique gifts to pull a laugh from things deemed too raw, too precious, and too scary to joke about. She shares her stories of taking on those who told her she was too brash, too edgy, and too “unlikable” to make it. She deftly dissects how we get coerced into silence on the issues that matter most, until they’ve gone too far afield to be turned back around again. And she shares her struggles to make it (-ish) in a world that, more often than not, would rather tune out than listen to a woman confronting the indignities we’ve been told to bear.
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Not Funny Audiobook Narrator
Jena Friedman is the narrator of Not Funny audiobook that was written by Jena Friedman
Jena Friedman is a comedian, filmmaker, and creator of AMC’s Indefensible and Soft Focus with Jena Friedman on Adult Swim. She has worked on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Show with David Letterman, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, ARTNET, and The Guardian. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and won a Writer’s Guild of America award for her work on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. She splits her time between Los Angeles and New York. Find out more at JenaFriedman.com and follow her on Twitter @JenaFriedman.
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Jena Friedman is the author of Not Funny
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Not Funny Full Details
| Narrator | Jena Friedman |
| Length | 7 hours 0 minutes |
| Author | Jena Friedman |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | May 02, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781797152493 |
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The publisher of the Not Funny is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: feminism, comedy, Daily Show, Borat, Jon Stewart, Daily Show With Jon Stewart, abortion, roe v. wade, roe vs. wade, indefensible, satire, patton oswalt, jim gaffigan, memoirs by comedians, essay collection by comedian, essay collections by comedians, late night writers, comedians from chicago, comedy essays women authors, pro-life, pro-choice, women author essay collection, female author essay collection, comedy essays female authors, oscar-nominated writer, academy award-nominated writer, books by comedians, comedian memoir, comedian book, standup, letterman, rudy Giuliani, academy award, borat, sacha baron cohen, jenna friedman, jenna freedman, soft focus, armisen, odenkirk, Wilmore, SNL, Saturday night live, breaking bad, Trevor Noah, Jessica Williams, shrill, you'll grow out of it, american cunt, dark comedy, samantha bee, women of late night television, late night television writers, funny books for women, celebrity books, books for feminists, books about comedians, snl book, Oscar, adult swim, me too, me too movement, stand up comedy, world deserves my children, Natasha Leggero, Lane Moore, Hannah Gadsby, oscars, the problem with jon stewart, HUMOR, Form, Essays, HUMOR, Topic, Political, Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts The BISAC Subject Code is Essays, Form, HUMOR
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The publisher of the Not Funny is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781797152493.
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