Youre Better Than Me, Bonnie McFarlane
Youre Better Than Me, Bonnie McFarlane
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You're Better Than Me
A Memoir

Author: Bonnie McFarlane

Narrator: Bonnie McFarlane, Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/23/2016


Synopsis

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?

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher on March 05, 2016

The first half of the book is some of the most honest, awful, heartbreaking and hilarious prose that I've ever read in a memoir before. I've met Bonnie, performed with her several times, ate with her, and never knew any of that stuff. It was mindblowing. The latter half of the book kind of breezed t......more

Goodreads review by Df on January 16, 2021

Some of the reviews here illustrate the difficulties of being female in any male-dominated industry: you're an outsider to begin with and your harshest critics are other women. I'm guessing some of you would have been more comfortable if she had gone straight from the farm to the loving arms of her......more

Goodreads review by Beth on May 18, 2017

According to the reviews, this book is hilarious. Not true. Mildly funny is all it gets. I made it half way, it was due at the library, and I did not bother to renew it.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on February 11, 2016

First couple of chapters: laughter, desire to share snippets with family and friends, difficult to put down. Then, sharp downward descent: turned-off, lack of desire to read about sexual exploits and drug use, should I bother to finish this? Although I understand and acknowledge part of comedy is of......more

Goodreads review by Cailey on July 25, 2016

I still don't know who Bonnie McFarlane is, but her book was okay. Not exceptional in any way (like making me laugh a lot), but not terrible. I grabbed the audio of this book when in a quick hunt for a book for the car. Not bad, not great, somewhere in the middle there.......more