Chocolate, Please - My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks

Zusatztext "Every generation has a female comic that destroys the conventional wisdom that only men can be raunchy and funny. Lisa Lampanelli is this generation's choice." Informationen zum Autor Lisa Lampanelli skyrocketed to comedy fame thanks to her stellar performances on the Comedy Central roasts of Jeff Foxworthy, Pamela Anderson, William Shatner, and Flavor Flav, among others. A regular guest on The Tonight Show and The Howard Stern Show , Lisa continues to sell out theaters across the country with her sweetly served but acerbic stand-up wit. Her CD/DVD Dirty Girl was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 2007 and her first HBO special, Long Live the Queen , premiered to spectacular numbers in 2009. This fall, she will shoot a one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central, scheduled for release in early 2011. Klappentext An inside look at the life of Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli, as she dishes on everything from relationships to food, fat, and rehab. In her jaw-droppingly hilarious, gloriously, and unabashedly politically incorrect memoir, Lisa reveals all—including her dysfunctional childhood and her struggles with addictions to food and hot guys. By telling her story in a very real, very candid way, Lisa shows her audience that it's okay to be yourself, even if it's just one rehab stint at a time. Zusammenfassung Lisa Lampanelli! who Howard Stern calls “a true original and a brilliant comedy mind!” reveals all in Chocolate! Please ! a jaw-droppingly hilarious! politically incorrect memoir on everything from relationships! food! and fat to why once you go black! you never go back. The gutter-mouthed! Grammy-nominated comedienne happily dishes on nearly everything—from why all white women should date black men to the virtues of codependency to how to turn a stick of butter into parental love and attention—delightedly skewering all topics with equal fervor! herself included. ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lisa Lampanelli
• Verlag: It Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.09.2010
• EAN: 9780061733161
• ISBN: 978-0-06-173316-1
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; Popular Culture, Biography: general, Memoirs, Films, cinema, Performing arts: comedy, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Comedy and stand-up, Humour collections and anthologies, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: arts and entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS: Film & Video / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, HUMOR: Form / Essays, HUMOR: General, HUMOR: Topic / Adult, HUMOR: Topic / Relationships, HUMOR: Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Cultural & Regional