My Footprint, Jeff Garlin
My Footprint, Jeff Garlin
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My Footprint
Carrying the Weight of the World

Author: Jeff Garlin

Narrator: Jeff Garlin

Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/23/2010


Synopsis

Jeff Garlin shares his hysterical and eye-opening journey to reduce his waistline and his carbon footprint during the production of the seventh season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm

Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical and his ecological footprints. After many false starts, he believes that writing a book about the experiment is the only possible way to help him lose weight and go green.

The hardest part of the endeavor is overcoming his food addiction—especially when craft service has a constant buffet of everything delicious you could imagine on set. In addition to cutting calories, Jeff accidentally falls into a love affair with pilates, sweats with Richard Simmons, and twice visits the Pritikin Longevity Center, which he says is "rehab for people who eat too much pizza." Larry David’s rooting for him. Jerry Seinfeld’s plotting against him. And his wife is just plain annoyed by everything.

As far as going green, Jeff has always been a big recycler, but he has a lot to learn. For example, actor Ed Begley Jr. is the guy to call if you want to reduce your environmental impact. Jeff does, and it changes everything.

He hopes that being healthy and green becomes a big part of who he is—if not now, when?

About Jeff Garlin

Jeff Garlin is best known for his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He also spent three seasons on NBC’s Mad About You in the role of Marvin, and he has a variety of television and film appearances to his credit, including Dr. Katz, Arrested Development, Everybody Loves Raymond, the Late Show with David Letterman, The Daily Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Daddy Day Care, and WALL-E. He has also had his own HBO half-hour comedy special.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter

Have to say, enjoyed this more than the average comedian's book. Jeff Garlin is a funny guy. If you aren't already sure of that, I recommend checking out his podcast, By the Way... A couple great episodes: With Larry David, the funniest thing I can remember: [URL not allowed]-... Wi......more

Goodreads review by Kirby

I was torn on this one. I really like Jeff Garlin's acting style and stand up. I was actually going to his shows at the UCB a lot while he was writing this book, so I had heard some of this material before. But I have to say, the language that is so lovable coming out of his mouth just does not tran......more

Goodreads review by Maggie

As an avid Curb fan, I picked this up mostly because I hoped Garlin would mention Larry David. He does, and he also makes me realize how much of Garlin's talent goes into Curb (a lot, it turns out). As a producer, writer, and actor for the show, his influence is pretty heavy. He's realistic about lo......more

Goodreads review by Jinny

Garlin gave me a copy himself, signing it, "Jinny -- you're a big bowl of wonderful." And that's only the first appearance of the words "big bowl", of many many many. Garlin invites us to read his diary, which chronicles the progress of his weight loss (actually, he wrote the diary for the sole purpos......more

Goodreads review by Deyth

"May 24, 2017 – Finished Reading May 24, 2017 – 90.0% "Disk 6 / Part 9 1:50" May 24, 2017 – 90.0% "Disk 6 / Part 7" May 24, 2017 – 80.0% "Already on The TV ... there are series 9 Seasons in about 85 Episodes 30 minutes each episode The name of the series is Curb Your Enthusiasm and it's based on this n......more