You're Better Than Me: A Memoir
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In the spirit of Mindy Kaling, Kelly Oxford, and Sarah Silverman, a compulsively readable and outrageously funny memoir of growing up as a fish out of water, finding your voice, and embracing your inner crazy-person, from popular actress, writer, and comedian Bonnie McFarlane.
It took Bonnie McFarlane a lot of time, effort, and tequila to get to where she is today. Before she starred on Last Comic Standing and directed her own films, she was an inappropriately loud tomboy growing up on her parents’ farm in Cold Lake, Canada, wetting her pants during standardized tests and killing chickens. Desperate to find “her people”—like-minded souls who wouldn’t judge her because she was honest, ruthless, and okay, sometimes really rude—Bonnie turned to comedy. In her explosively funny and no-holds-barred memoir, Bonnie tells it like it is, and lays bare all of her smart (and her not-so-smart) decisions along her way to finding her friends and her comedic voice.
From fistfights in elementary school to riding motorcycles to the World Famous Comic Strip, to Late Night with David Letterman, and through to her infamous “c” word bit on Last Comic Standing, You’re Better Than Me is her funny and outrageous trip through the good, bad, and ugly of her life in comedy. McFarlane doesn’t always keep her mouth shut when she should, but at least she makes people laugh. And that’s all that matters, right?
Bonnie McFarlane
Bonnie Mcfarlane is a comedian and writer who has appeared on Last Comic Standing and her own HBO comedy special, and cohosts the podcast My Wife Hates Me with her husband, comedian Rich Vos.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bonnie McFarlane is a comedian I'm not familiar with, but she's had a successful career on HBO and David Letterman, as a comedy writer, and performing in New York City and Los Angeles. Lots of clips of her on YouTube. Her story begins on an impoverished farm in northern Alberta, through an awkward childhood, and then starting out in comedy in Vancouver before heading south to the States for many more years of trying to break into the business.Why I Read This Now: Two very different friends both raved about this new book.Rating: I didn't like it as much as they did. No doubt, there were some very funny parts, but the self-deprecating humour started to grate, and at times I found her a bit on the mean side. The final bit of the book was about political correctness and censorship, and sort of lessened my impression of her being a bit mean.Recommended for: readers who like funny memoirs and people interested in how to break into comedy in North America.