Still Crazy: A Decade of Social Media Meanderings by a Recovering Stand-up Comedian

By T. Faye Griffin

Award-winning comedy writer, producer, and retired stand-up comedian, T. Faye Griffin (In Living Color, Steve Harvey's Big Time, BET's ComicView, Black Girls Rock) celebrates her "funnyversary" with this rollicking compilation of original jokes, quips, anecdotes, wit, and a smidgeon of wisdom from the pages of her favorite social media platform. Still Crazy is a wacky page turner that will crack your funny bone with a myriad of topics ranging from the ridiculous to flat out crazy. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moonstone Enterprises
• Release date: Sep 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386613183

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Written by T. Faye Griffin

Published by Moonstone Enterprises

Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

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PREFACE

It’s my FUNNYVERSARY, Ere’body! And I want presents!

Let's cut to the chase here. Since September 2007 I’ve been providing you with jokes, gags, quips, and witticisms on social media that have provoked belly laughs, giggles, snorts, snickers, and yes, even guffaws. And while y’all was doin’ all that snigglin’, I never asked for a dime in exchange.

We’re talkin’ ten years of free comedy, people. I’m a trained professional. I write funny for a living. I’ve put funny words into the mouths of everyone from Jim Carrey and Johnnie Cochran to Bill Clinton and Beyoncé to Steve Harvey with hair and Steve Harvey without hair!  So I don’t think I’m being unreasonable in asking you to spend a little bit of your latte money on this book. It’s not that I don’t appreciate your feedback. I do! I do! You’ve humbled me with your enthusiastic likes, LOLs, emojis, and comments. They are great. But the gas station or the grocery store don’t take memes. Would you ask Kevin Hart or Jim Gaffigan or Sinbad to tell you ten years’ worth of jokes for free? I think not.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying I’m as funny as these guys. Fact is I was mediocre at best as a stand-up comedian. Oh, I had some good jokes. I had some good punch lines. But all of my bad sets outweighed my good sets. Audiences complained (church folks will get the song reference).

After years of fits and starts as a stand-up, I finally gave up the ghost. I could no longer stand the stress of trying to be what other people said I should be—"You’re funny. You should do stand-up." And I tried. I really did. For a minute I was in high demand. I even won a competition at the famed Ice House in Pasadena, California, and was signed by a high-profile booker. But after a couple of high-profile bombings (La Mirada Theater and Ford Amphitheater), I finally stopped swimming in denial, admitted that I suck eggs when it comes to performing comedy on stage, hung up my microphone and retreated to my happy place—my laptop.

Fortunately, one place where I’ve always been confident is in print. I’m not a performer; I am an informer, a teacher of sorts who happens to be funny. (My first book Morning Manna: Wisdom Served With Humor and Heart, also inspired by social media confirmed that I really do write funny.) Facebook was a godsend. I could work-out online. The length of the tread became the gauge of whether or not a joke worked. One refrain I’ve seen over and over was: T. Faye, you are CRAZY!

I’m aware that there are those of you reading this who don’t know me from Adam. Don’t let that stop you from buying this book. I guarantee you’ll find something that will tickle your funny bone or my name isn’t Kathy Griffin. Not only will this get you up to speed on what you’ve missed over the past 10 years, you’ll help keep one more failed stand-up comic off the streets.

I’ve compiled some of my greatest hits from ten years of Facebook posts. For the most part they appear