I need a list of funny memoirs please – and yes, I’ve read all of Jens.
I need a list of funny memoirs please – and yes, I’ve read all of Jens.
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I need a list of funny memoirs please – and yes, I’ve read all of Jens.
Jenny Lawson’s books are hilarious
Bill Bryson’s travel memoirs are HILARIOUS
Bossypants by Tina Fey, Jenny Mollen’s books.
I’m halfway through Tiffany Haddish’s book and it’s cracking me up. Love Mindy Kaling, Anna Kendrick, Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler
Check this one
https://amzn.to/2G9ew4M
Hmm… a memoir I have recently read (is more shocking than funny I guess) is Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Oriana Small. Def not the best written, but I could not put it down. Absolutely crazy! *Mature audiences only….
Man Up! by Ross Matthews is hilarious. I highly recommend it!
In the RuPaul’s Drag Race vein, Michelle Visage’s The Diva Rules was also very good
Rereading right now “Whatever you do, don’t run” by Peter Allison. Hilarious stories about his experiences as a safari tour guide.
OMG. i love travel too. so this is a must for me. LOL
Anything by Laurie Notaro. She is hilarious.
@Carla I 2nd this!
yes, she is.
Any of Chelsea Handlers books, Bossypants by Tina Fey
and Chelsea’s new one is out tomorrow!
Mindy Kaling, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler!!
The World According to Mimi Smartypants by Mimi Smartypants.
@Chanandler I used to read her blog all the time!! Love her!
She still occasionally blogs. Her book had me laughing so hard I was crying at times.
@Chanandler…your name just made me laugh so hard, I snorted. That is awesome.
Wade Rouse, Chelsea Handler, Laurie Notaro, Jen Mann ?
@Becky I love Wade Rouse!
If you’re not offendable – Tucker Max is hysterical. I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell is the best one. Chelsea’s Handler is also funny.
I thought the Tucker Max book was WONDERFUL. Crude for sure, but fascinating and in places, very, very funny.
@Jennifer So crude but soooooo funny.
Even now when I need a pick me up I’ll grab my copy of Beer in Hell for a laugh.
i have the paperback!! LOL
Ayser Salman’s The Wrong End of the Table and Sara Barron’s The Harm in Asking
Sex Lives of Cannibals. And Getting Stoned With Savages by J. Maarten Troost.
Girl Logic by Iliza Schlesinger
Have you tried Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella’s books? They are summertime must-reads. Absolutely fabulous.
Sh#t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern is funny ?
Lets Pretend this never happened Jenny Lawson
The Only Pirate at the Party or Born A Crime (funny and serious) .
Tracy Beckerman!
Anything by David Sedaris….Me Talk Pretty One Day is my favorite.
@Linda, the French class where the Easter bunny is explained always send tears down my legs???
@Darrin MORSELS OF LUMBER!
I just finished this one yesterday and thought it was pretty funny.
People I want to punch in the throat
Anything by Ali Wentworth!
Celia Rivenbark
A Little Bit Wicked by Kristin Chenoweth. Bossypants by Tina Fey. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler. Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman. Yes, My Accent is Real by Kunal Nayyar. I Don’t Know What You Know Me From by Judy Greer.
Laughed out loud so often reading Amy Poehler’s book while on vacation, I was disturbing my husband! I had to keep reading passages to him ?
What about Laurie Notaro’s books?
I second Sedaris, Rouse, and Halpern. Also enjoy AJ Jacob’s memoirs. I’ve heard great things about Nora Ephron’s memoirs and have her in my TBR now. Have also heard Anna Kendrick’s memoir is very good. My daughters liked it — I haven’t stolen (er, borrowed) their copy yet.
Jill Conner Browne.
84 Charing Cross Road has some humorous parts.
Jill Kargman’s Glitter on My Grave and Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut. Jancee Dunn’s But Enough About Me and Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo. Also Rachel Dratch’s Girl Walks into a Bar. All fun with lots of good laughs.
DUDE. I love you chicks!!!!! OMG.
Have you read Retta’s “So Close to Being The Sh*t”? Her style is a lot like Jen’s.
ooh! cool. i have not.
I liked it a lot.
I just finished this one recently and loved it!
Loved, LOVED, Loved it! Did Audible
“Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir” by Jenny Lawson is LOLoudly!!
@Deanna Don’t forget Furiously Happy!!
Ellen DeGeneres has 3 that are lol funny.
Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller by Marshall Chapman
Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed and New York Times best-selling memoirs The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit, as well as the Art of Memoir, and five poetry collections, most recently Tropic of Squalor.
I enjoyed her books—-
Laurie Notaro, Celia Rivenbark, Jenny Lawson. Some other hilarious ones are Man vs. Baby and I Heart My Little A-holes.
AJ Jacob’s books are hilarious
Mindy Kaling, Jenny Lawson, Chelsea Handler. I also liked Nick Offerman’s book.
Judy Greer
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan… Definitely funny elements but also real issues and hard moments. Worth the read 100%
Laurie Notaro, Jen Mann.
kick me, adventures in adolescence by Paul Feig, laughed out loud through whole book
I enjoy Chelsea Handler and Jen Mann.
Haven Kimmel
The OG….ERMA BOMBECK!
If you read on kindle, someone just shared that Wade Rouse’s memoir It’s All Relative is 2.99 right now. I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by him.
“Scrappy Little Nobody” by Anna Kendrick
“Talking as Fast as I Can” by Lauren Graham
And I haven’t read it yet, but I think “This Will Only Hurt a Little” by Busy Phillips is going to be good and funny too!!
“Whiskey in a Teacup” by Reese Witherspoon was really good too! I don’t know if it is considered to be a memoir though?!
Samantha Irby. Not memoir per se but hilarious essays
Anything David Sedaris
@Jen is hilarious! Right now I’m reading Celia Rivenbark. Laurie Notaro is pretty good too.
I second @Jen!
@Denise I love Celia!
Laurie Notaro for sure! She is hilarious.
Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
@Mary I second this one. I was sad when it ended. I wanted more from Trevor.
Jenny Lawson’s books are great!
Caitlyn Moran
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern.
I Heart My Little A-Holes and I Want My Epidural Back by Karen Alpert
How I Got A Horse Out of a Toilet
Why my next husband will be a dog. Lisa Scottoline.
Sloane Crosley. She has several, all good