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The Todd Glass Situation: A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Stand-Up Comedy

The Todd Glass Situation: A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Stand-Up Comedy


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About the Book

A hilarious, poignant memoir from comedian Todd Glass about his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man--and the reactions and support from his comedy pals, from Louis CK to Sarah Silverman.

Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd Glass decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results.

It might have been a lot easier had he chosen a profession other than stand-up comedy. By age eighteen, Todd was opening for big musical acts like George Jones and Patti LaBelle. His career carried him through the Los Angeles comedy heyday in the 1980s, its decline in the 1990s, and its rebirth via the alternative comedy scene and the explosion in podcasting. But the harder he worked at his craft, the more difficult it became to manage his "situation." There were the years of abstinence and half-hearted attempts to "cure" himself. The fake girlfriends so that he could tell relationship jokes onstage. The staged sexual encounters to burnish his reputation offstage. It took a brush with death to cause him to rethink the way he was living his life; a rash of suicides among gay teens to convince him that it was finally time to come out to the world.

Now, Todd has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone--young and old, gay and straight--breathe a little more freely. Peppered with anecdotes from his life among comedy's greatest headliners and tales of the occasionally insane lengths Todd went through to keep a secret that--let's face it--he probably didn't have to keep for as long as he did, The Todd Glass Situation is a front-row seat to the last thirty plus years of comedy history and a deeply personal story about one man's search for acceptance.



About the Author :
Todd Glass is a Philadelphia native who has been performing standup comedy since he was sixteen. In addition to specials on Comedy Central and Netflix, Todd has appeared on numerous TV shows, including The Daily Show, Louie, Last Comic Standing, The Sarah Silverman Program, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Chelsea Lately, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and The Jimmy Kimmel Show. He's also the host of The Todd Glass Show, a popular podcast on the Nerdist Network. The Todd Glass Situation is his first book.

Review :
"Most comedy memoirs are mediocre. And if Todd Glass had wanted to write a mediocre comedy memoir--riffing on his career, bragging about his achievements--he totally could have. . . . But The Todd Glass Situation is in a class of its own, thanks to Glass' frank and humble exploration of his lifelong struggle to be honest about his sexuality. . . . . Funny, insightful, and eye-opening."--The Portland Mercury "There are comics and then there are comic's comics. Todd Glass is the rare comic's comics comic. Which means six people find him funny."--Norm Macdonald "Todd Glass is not only the funniest person I know, he might be the funnest. This book is like Todd: fun, engaging and honest. And having ghost written so many classic books (War & Peace, Elmo Goes Shopping, The Celestine Prophecy, The Notebook) it is nice to see Todd finally put his name on one! Also: Todd Glass is much funnier than his brother Ira."--Jim Gaffigan, New York Times bestselling author of Dad is Fat


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781476714417
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster
  • Height: 237 mm
  • No of Pages: 235
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 408 gr
  • ISBN-10: 147671441X
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jun 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Stand-Up Comedy
  • Width: 159 mm


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